Social Media Reacts To Trump Picking Peter Navarro As Top Trade Adviser

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All the social media platforms were buzzing on Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump announced he was nominating Peter Navarro as his top trade adviser in his administration.

Of course, that’s bound to happen when you appoint someone who was released from prison just five months ago after serving a sentence for contempt of Congress charges stemming from his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Navarro was convicted after openly defying a subpoena to testify before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

While working for Trump, Navarro helped orchestrate a scheme Trump allies called the “Green Bay Sweep” that was designed to block President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory with the help of congressional Republicans.

People on social media weren’t surprised to see Trump nominate another election-denying loyalist with legal and ethical baggage and questionable qualifications for the job.

Within the trade community…which is to say people who understand anything at all about trade…Peter Navarro was long seen to be an incompetent crackpot. Since Trump 1.0 however, he has subsequently come to be seen as a dangerous incompetent ex-con crackpot.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social)2024-12-04T15:56:48.640Z

Peter Navarro. From Prison to the White House. Usually it happens the other way around for Trump appointees. pic.twitter.com/bTK04It4rN

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 4, 2024

Charles Kushner and Peter Navarro pioneer the prison-to-administration pipeline. Can Steve Bannon be next?

— Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social)2024-12-04T16:37:27.964Z

Peter Navarro is a convicted criminal. So of course he will fit in very well in the Trump White House. Looking forward to him going on Ari Melber’s show and getting destroyed as always. This is the government you asked for, America. pic.twitter.com/LIgjXWEysE

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) December 4, 2024

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Let’s face it, virtually every appointment will be repulsive, he wants to give us the finger with every person he nominates and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. The American people approved everything he’s going to do.

— Scott 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸 (@scottinankeny) December 4, 2024

And at least one person wondered if the nomination would generate outrage or just a business-as-usual shrug.

Donald Trump just appointed Peter Navarro to be a senior counselor in his Administration.I hope the media has as much uproar about this as they did about the Hunter Biden pardon.

— Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social)2024-12-04T16:31:42.375Z

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