Ex-Surgeon General Jerome Adams reveals his struggles while seeking employment after leaving Trump's White House

A few days back, the Washington Post carried a piece by Manuel Roig-Franzia about life after the Trump administration for Trump’s former surgeon general Jerome Adams and his wife, Lacey.

Jerome who is African American revealed that after his tenure with the Trump administration he was exploring job opportunities in academia.

 

Lacey revealed that for eight months after leaving office, Jerome could not find a job causing the couple to worry about how they would support their three children.

 

Jerome says that every time he received polite rejections from university officials who feared that a former Trump official would be badly received by their left-leaning student bodies.

 

This is a shocking instance of discrimination that has no place in one of the world’s largest democracies.

 

A qualified medical professional with experience serving in the highest office of the nation is considered unworthy of employment in academia just because of the political leaning of whom he worked for.

 

The claim that student bodies would reject him makes it worse

 

There could be two possibilities and both prove a decline in educational institutions.

 

The University faculty and management could be using students as an excuse to discriminate against individuals with different political leanings

 

The intolerance of brainwashed students for any diversity of opinion is well known. What is troubling is that instead of standing up to rogue students, the faculty and management capitulate before them. 

 

The WaPo then claims that the former surgeon general’s predicament “underscores one of the givens of today’s political environment: association with Trump becomes a permanent tarnish, a kind of reverse Midas touch.“

 

Also “whether indicted or shunned or marginalized, a cavalcade of former Trump World figures have foundered”  in the aftermath of” the Trump Presidency, which the WaPo claims is the most chaotic Presidency in US history.

 

Once again the WaPo is referring to discrimination as if it was a normal practice. There is no disgust or shock. If one reads between lines there is an implicit endorsement of these discriminatory practices.

 

Jerome's struggles ended in September 2021 when Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, a former Republican Indiana governor hired Adams as their first executive director of health equity initiatives at the school.

 

The WaPo then attacks Trump via their interviewees.

 

Lacey said she “hated Trump” and worried about the lasting “stigma” of working for Trump. But Jerome convinced her of the worthiness of the opportunity.

 

Jerome claimed that Trump is “a force that really does take the air out of the room” also “the Trump hangover is still impacting me in significant ways”.

 

The WaPo didn’t feel the need to be critical of it the usage of the term ‘stigma’ by Lacey or the discrimination faced by Jerome.

 

This summer, Lacey Adams was diagnosed with a third recurrence of melanoma. The couple claim they would rather talk about public health, in a very personal way, yet they feel the Trump ‘stigma’ prevents them from doing so. 

 

There were no words in the article to counter this preposterous claim.

 

Jerome also said the 2024 Trump campaign “will make things more difficult for” him.

 

Either Jerome is a serial whiner or he was advised by the WaPo to do so.

 

But the WaPo has no sympathy for Jerome.

The article narrates an incident from 2018 when Lacey who was recovering from cancer surgery posted a selfie on her Facebook page with a little dig at the Trump administration. The WaPo claims that while Lacey was still groggy from the anesthesia following her surgery, Jerome asked for her Facebook password to delete her anti-Trump post.

The WaPo is making the case that Jerome was an enabler of the ‘tyrant’ Trump. Perhaps Jerome was fearful or blindly loyal, hence he was more focused on deleting an anti-Trump post instead of comforting her while recovering from surgery.

 

The WaPo also attacked Jerome for his remarks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

The WaPo also attempts to make the case that Jerome is racist towards black people for sharing a Valentine’s Day poem in 2020 on social media where he told African Americans, who were contracting the coronavirus in disproportionate numbers, to take precautions to protect their “Big Mama.”

 

To sum it up, the WaPo branded Jerome as a Trump loyalist who was bigoted, insensitive towards his wife, and incompetent at his job. The implication is that he deserved his struggles. 

 

The Adams probably thought that opening up to the foremost Democrat mouthpiece The WaPo and attacking Trump would ‘destigmatize’ them and give them a seat back at a table in the corner.

 

But that didn’t happen, they merely used Jerome and Lacey to mount attacks on Trump. After Jerome was no longer the useful idiot, they kicked him down a bit. This is exactly how the Democrats treat useful idiots, they are disposed of into the dustbin after usage.

 

Lacey receives favorable treatment throughout the article, perhaps because she hated Trump from the beginning. By MSNBC standards, this would be racist.

 

The primary purpose of this piece is to send a warning message to all those who are aspiring to work for the Trump campaign or the Trump administration of 2025. They are telling these aspirants ‘don’t do it or you too will face hardships.'

 

The Biden administration is already waging war on their political opponents via politized government agencies. This was the WaPo doing their bit.

 

The fear of discrimination that makes employment opportunities difficult and stigmatization that causes social ostracization will certainly dissuade people from working for Trump.

 

Perhaps these individuals were innovators who could have really made a difference. But now they choose to stay away and the D.C. establishment maintains the status quo.

 

This is another sign of the erosion of Democracy within the US.

 

The media and the Democrats attempt to stigmatize working for Trump to such an extent that Trump has limited choices and perhaps has to settle for swamp dwellers who will eventually work with nefarious external saboteurs to disrupt Trump's agenda or place impediments before it.

 

What blackens this darkness is the lack of outrage over this systemic discrimination.

 

The left sees this as another way to ensure a permanent hold on power in D.C.

Also appears in American Thinker