Donald Trump's Appointments Get the Meme Treatment, From the Costco Guys to Diddy

What could be worse than RFK Jr. as the health and human service secretary? How about Stringer Bell as secretary of housing?

November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference.
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Donald Trump has been announcing some of the hires he'll make for the White House when he becomes president again next year, and some of them are so ridiculous that he's inspired a new meme suggesting some of the worst or strangest possible appointments, many of them being fictional characters.

Some of the appointments Trump has announced so far include Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has been accused of child sex trafficking and statutory rape, as Attorney General, and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as the leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency. Perhaps most worrying, he just confirmed that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who admitted earlier this year that doctors found a dead worm in his brain as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department.

Not exactly the best picks for many but users on the social media network formerly known as Twitter have started to suggest that it could be worse. Jokes have been flying following the string of announcements, with some joking that Diddy could be appointed as the White House Chief Party Planner, or Russell "Stringer" Bell from The Wire could be the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Could TikTok sensations the Costco Guys make it the White House? What about Caitlyn Jenner, who went to trial over a fatal car accident in 2015, as the next Secretary of Transportation?

Check out some of the other ridiculous examples of the meme below.