Becky Romero Slams Donald Trump for One of His Latest and Very Dangerous Screw-Ups!
March 1, 2025
Washington, D.C.
Moderator: "Ms. Romero, you’ve been critical of how the Trump administration has handled defense spending and military readiness. Recently, there was a controversy involving layoffs in the nuclear weapons program under Elon Musk’s leadership at a federally contracted company. How do you see this impacting national security?"
Becky Romero: [laughs] "Oh, where do I even start? You know, the President loves to say, ‘I alone can fix it,’ right? That was his big line at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Well, here we are, and his administration just let Elon Musk fire hundreds of federal employees responsible for working on America’s nuclear weapons programs—two weeks ago, no less. And now, they’re scrambling to rehire them, but guess what? They can’t even find them because their government email accounts were deactivated!
I mean, really? This is the kind of ‘leadership’ Donald Trump is offering? We’re talking about the people responsible for maintaining and modernizing America’s nuclear arsenal—literally the most important weapons system in our entire defense strategy—and they were just casually laid off like seasonal workers at a theme park. Then, when someone in his administration finally realized, ‘Oops, maybe gutting the nuclear workforce was a bad idea,’ they tried to rehire them and couldn’t even contact them. This isn’t just incompetence—it’s national security malpractice.
And let’s not pretend this is some minor bureaucratic mistake. This is exactly why I’ve been pushing for a stable, fully funded trillion-dollar defense budget—because when you start cutting corners, making reckless layoffs, and treating national security like it’s a reality TV show, you put the entire country at risk. China and Russia aren’t laying off their nuclear experts. They’re making strategic investments, and meanwhile, the President's too busy playing golf at Mar-a-Lago or holding Court with Elon Musk while his administration scrambles to undo its own self-inflicted disaster.
I mean, how many times do we have to watch this cycle of chaos before people realize that ‘I alone can fix it’ actually means ‘I alone can break it’?"
Donald Trump: "Well, Becky, first of all, let’s not exaggerate. The situation is being handled, and we’re making sure we have the best people working on our nuclear program. Elon Musk is a very smart guy, and sometimes adjustments need to be made. We’re going to fix it, and we’re going to be stronger than ever before."
Becky Romero: "Oh puleeeeze! You said ‘I alone can fix it’ back in 2016, and since then, all you’ve done is break things—whether it’s the economy, international alliances, or now, even our nuclear workforce. And now, you’re in clean-up mode, trying to fix what your own administration messed up. Maybe if you actually had competent people running things, we wouldn’t be dealing with this mess in the first place."
Moderator: "Ms. Romero you’re arguing that this is part of a larger pattern of mismanagement. Mr. President, you’re saying it’s a fixable issue. Let’s shift gears slightly—what would you do differently, Ms. Romero, to prevent crises like this in national security?"
Becky Romero: "For starters, I wouldn’t let a billionaire with a history of erratic decision-making run critical national security operations like a personal pet project. I’d ensure continuity in our nuclear programs, keep experienced personnel in place, and have policies that prevent mass layoffs from putting our nuclear deterrent at risk. And most importantly, I wouldn’t spend time fixing my own mistakes while also playing golf on twenty-five percent of my first forty days in office. I’d make sure these mistakes never happened in the first place."
Note: President Trump's response to Ms. Romero's remarks are fictionalized. Ms. Romero's remarks most certainly are not!
Washington, D.C.
Moderator: "Ms. Romero, you’ve been critical of how the Trump administration has handled defense spending and military readiness. Recently, there was a controversy involving layoffs in the nuclear weapons program under Elon Musk’s leadership at a federally contracted company. How do you see this impacting national security?"
Becky Romero: [laughs] "Oh, where do I even start? You know, the President loves to say, ‘I alone can fix it,’ right? That was his big line at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Well, here we are, and his administration just let Elon Musk fire hundreds of federal employees responsible for working on America’s nuclear weapons programs—two weeks ago, no less. And now, they’re scrambling to rehire them, but guess what? They can’t even find them because their government email accounts were deactivated!
I mean, really? This is the kind of ‘leadership’ Donald Trump is offering? We’re talking about the people responsible for maintaining and modernizing America’s nuclear arsenal—literally the most important weapons system in our entire defense strategy—and they were just casually laid off like seasonal workers at a theme park. Then, when someone in his administration finally realized, ‘Oops, maybe gutting the nuclear workforce was a bad idea,’ they tried to rehire them and couldn’t even contact them. This isn’t just incompetence—it’s national security malpractice.
And let’s not pretend this is some minor bureaucratic mistake. This is exactly why I’ve been pushing for a stable, fully funded trillion-dollar defense budget—because when you start cutting corners, making reckless layoffs, and treating national security like it’s a reality TV show, you put the entire country at risk. China and Russia aren’t laying off their nuclear experts. They’re making strategic investments, and meanwhile, the President's too busy playing golf at Mar-a-Lago or holding Court with Elon Musk while his administration scrambles to undo its own self-inflicted disaster.
I mean, how many times do we have to watch this cycle of chaos before people realize that ‘I alone can fix it’ actually means ‘I alone can break it’?"
Donald Trump: "Well, Becky, first of all, let’s not exaggerate. The situation is being handled, and we’re making sure we have the best people working on our nuclear program. Elon Musk is a very smart guy, and sometimes adjustments need to be made. We’re going to fix it, and we’re going to be stronger than ever before."
Becky Romero: "Oh puleeeeze! You said ‘I alone can fix it’ back in 2016, and since then, all you’ve done is break things—whether it’s the economy, international alliances, or now, even our nuclear workforce. And now, you’re in clean-up mode, trying to fix what your own administration messed up. Maybe if you actually had competent people running things, we wouldn’t be dealing with this mess in the first place."
Moderator: "Ms. Romero you’re arguing that this is part of a larger pattern of mismanagement. Mr. President, you’re saying it’s a fixable issue. Let’s shift gears slightly—what would you do differently, Ms. Romero, to prevent crises like this in national security?"
Becky Romero: "For starters, I wouldn’t let a billionaire with a history of erratic decision-making run critical national security operations like a personal pet project. I’d ensure continuity in our nuclear programs, keep experienced personnel in place, and have policies that prevent mass layoffs from putting our nuclear deterrent at risk. And most importantly, I wouldn’t spend time fixing my own mistakes while also playing golf on twenty-five percent of my first forty days in office. I’d make sure these mistakes never happened in the first place."
Note: President Trump's response to Ms. Romero's remarks are fictionalized. Ms. Romero's remarks most certainly are not!
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