Jennifer Rubin Slams Trump’s Nominees For Being Too White: ‘1,000 Shades Of White’

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin went after President-elect Donald Trump’s recent cabinet nominees for being too White.

Rubin joined MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for an interview on Saturday morning where they discussed the possibility of Senate Republicans blocking Trump’s nominees during the confirmation process.

She noted that there is some hope since Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has vowed to not confirm Trump’s nominees unless they go through a full FBI background check. Trump is reportedly not using the FBI to review his nominees.

Velshi then presented a slideshow of Trump’s nominees prompting Rubin to note that the major cabinet picks lack in diversity and are “1,000 shades of White.”

Here we have a little bit more diversity in the slide that you’re showing, but the first one, which was the major characters, yes, it’s a thousand shades of white. Secondly, there is a certain level of dysfunction and catastrophe that will sink these people. What happens if there is a terrorist attack, God forbid? What happens when there is a pandemic? The problem with being extreme, irresponsible, ignorant is when bad stuff happens, there’s no one to blame but you. So the good news is that these people may not get everything they want. The bad news is a lot of bad stuff might happen to a lot of innocent people because of them. And this is kind of touch the hot stove theory. People voted for them. We’re about to find out what he’s like. But I would go back to one example, and I’ll be writing about this shameless plug next week.

Remember, after 2004, George Bush decided he was going to privatize Social Security. He was riding really high after the 2004 election. He had a huge Senate majority. It went nowhere because there’s a certain political reality out there that if you propose stuff that the vast majority of Americans hate and the vast majority of members of Congress think is going to be toxic for them, you’re going to run into some trouble. And that’s, I think, the leverage that we have. It’s not that we’re going to convince Republicans in the Senate to vote down RFK Jr. It’s that when catastrophes happen, they’ll be held accountable. And when we ask that people look at the ramifications and take responsibility for their votes, a lot of people are going to get cold feet.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.