Sarah Palin seems miffed Trump isn’t nominating her for a cupboard spot | EUROtoday

Sarah Palin seems to be miffed that President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t picked her to serve in his cupboard.

As Trump rolls out his cupboard picks, the previous vice presidential nominee and governor of Alaska has been busy posting a sequence of screenshots from her supporters expressing their frustration that she hadn’t been chosen for a cupboard function — maybe signaling that she shares that frustration.

One Instagram person wrote: “Currently, President-elect Trump has named his secretaries for the VA, Energy, Interior and EPA administrator. Any one of these positions I hoped Sarah Palin would get.”

He then quoted Steve Bannon, who on his Friday “War Room” present, credited Palin with awakening the populist motion and referred to as her the “Trump before Trump.”

“I have been saying this for years,” the Instagrammer wrote. “Sarah Palin is the Mother of MAGA. Back then, she was the face of the tea party, what would then become the MAGA movement…So, it is so shocking to me how in 2017, and now it looks like in 2025, she will not get a seat at the table that she helped set.”

Along with the screenshotted rant, Palin wrote: “Big tent, big party, but know your history so America can repeat the good parts.”

Some different posts additionally trace how she might be salty that she hasn’t been picked.

On her Instagram story, she wrote: “Andddd… yet another nominee announced!” and connected a crying laughing emoji.

In one more story, she posted a photograph of herself sweeping her hair behind her ear with the caption: “Funny how politics work.”

The former governor has lengthy been a vocal supporter of the president-elect. In January 2016, she endorsed Trump — simply six months after Trump claimed that former Arizona Senator John McCain, with whom she shared the 2008 Republican ticket, was “not a war hero.”

More lately, she supported Trump at his Madison Square Garden rally in Manhattan final month.

Some of the president-elect’s cupboard picks have been getting some pushback, specifically Matt Gaetz as lawyer basic, Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary of well being and human companies, and Pete Hegseth as protection secretary.

The Independent has reached out to Palin by way of a type on her web site.