Late last year, while Mick Mulvaney was leading the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he was weeks away from nabbing the acting White House chief of staff gig.
However, at the time, he was also eyeing a very different occupation: the presidency of the University of South Carolina.
According to a Monday New York Times report, Mulvaney had reached out to an official at the school as recently as late 2018 to inquire about the upcoming vacancy, and has an ongoing interest in the job.
Though he reportedly has received a warm reception in the White House, he may be covering his bases: President Donald Trump is notoriously mercurial and often turns on his most senior aides within months of appointing them.
If USC provides this scumbag a white-collar escape hatch, they should be absolutely pilloried by alumni and the press.
My first thought was there is no way the student body of University of Southern California would accept the hiring of Mick Mulvaney. Then I read the article and it made more sense.
It would be wise of Mulvaney to leave the White House before his reputation is shattered even further. It may be too late at this point.
For a second there, I read USC as the California school and freaked.
Whew! Thought you meant Univ. of Southern California.
They can have him. Shudder.
What kind of university would want to hire this relentless plutocrat as its president?
Edit: Would he have a picture of himself and his trophy wife holding a sheaf of newly printed diplomas put on the cover of the alumni magazine?
Oops - I’m thinking of Mnuchin - it’s hard to keep all the Trump crazies straight.