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Does Donald Trump Know Men Are Also Allowed To Leave His Cabinet?

The Atlantic · May 26, 2026, 10:01 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

Mr. President! Let me start this Cabinet meeting by thanking you for hanging the moon and organizing the nation, and the universe, in such a perfect way. The moon looks great where you put it. Everything you touch turns to gold, unless you would prefer it to turn to brass.Now that we have dispensed with the pleasantries, I do have a tiny question: Do you know that you are also allowed to fire men? Really, you are! Men are allowed to leave the Cabinet too.As one of the last remaining women in this Cabinet, I felt compelled to ask. Not for me, of course. For my sisters!I literally cannot think of a worse place to have a feminist awakening than as a member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet, watching the departures of Pam Bondi but not Kash Patel and Kristi Noem but not Pete Hegseth and Lori Chavez-DeRemer but not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Of course, that is not what this is. I would sooner die than have a feminist awakening. Obviously I am aware of the patriarchy, but I have always believed that I could make it work for me, personally, if I just used the right hair products and smiled more.I’m just wondering: Do I have a future here? I’m doing everything that everyone else is doing. I have a face. I have a jet. I have incompetence. I shower the president with praise at every Cabinet meeting. (See above.) But where is the ironclad job security, the sense that, no matter what I do, I am still an essential part of the team? Should I be drinking more? Snorkeling more? Both?I will say I thought that it would be different when I agreed to serve. I thought, Well, this man has no respect for women. But he also has no respect for any type of person! I can build on that. “Put me in, Coach,” I said then.Now there are just four of us left. I really thought that Tulsi’s willingness to conduct purges, peddle conspiracies, and cast doubt on the integrity of the last election would have endeared her to you more. But I also thought that about Pam.Listen, if you were assembling a Cabinet purely on

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