Trump taps another tech bro for shady government gig

One of the so-called types of government efficiency types that have sunk the Trump administration after Elon Musk left is now the country’s first “chief of design”. The co-founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia, will transform your government into Apple store.

No, really. It is What he said.

Gebbia was initially responsible for a “Digital design challenge“To reorganize the retirement process of the staff management office, but now it will bring its big brain to the whole government. He therefore turns a new temporary agency, the fascist-marqué ”National design studioWho is looking for… volunteers? Come work for free for the federal government to help another Big Tech Billionaire Do everything they do! What a sale argument.

The scientist of alleged technology is supposed to reveal certain initial results of his overhaul of 26,000 websites July 4, 2026, because of course President Donald Trump had to link him to his jingoisical fetishization Around the country’s 250th anniversary.

Trump’s executive order putting all this stupidity in motion moans on the way in which the nation has “lagged behind in conviviality and aesthetics” and which it “will now fill the nests of digital pool across our country”. What?

Meanwhile, the National Design Studio website stimulates: “The United States represents freedom, independence and dreams, but for those who live here, the government is known to be slow, difficult to use and often stuck in the past.”

It is only the modernized version of the long -standing and infinitely discredited conservative belief that the government does not work and would be better managed as a business. But even the previous republican administrations were not also if the flashes and willing to literally leave the CEOs without any experience in the government to run the place in the ground.

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All of these speeches raised in mind of the importance for people to have better access to government services are really rich from an administration that has made the experience of interacting with the government much more difficult.

For example, one of the first tasks that Gebbia is allocated: Improve the user experience of the Internal Revenue Service. Do you know what would be a great user experience for most ordinary people? Directfile, the government program that gave people a simple and simple way to deposit their taxes. But the Trump administration killed this so that he could continue Pocket Large commercial tax preparation companies supporting Trump.

What else do you know would be a great user experience for most ordinary people? Short waiting time when contacting the IRS. But the agency is now lie How long the taxpayers must wait to speak to someone, according to the Inspector General of the Treasury for the Tax Administration.

Hmm. Maybe lying on waiting times is an Apple Store’s genius bar policy, and is that what Gebbia means? Surely leaving a billionaire Who has tested a lot of money to bizarre libertarians before swearing loyalty to the Trump administration has the best interest of little people in mind, right?

In addition to the fact that Gebbia does not really seem to be responsible for making paper on what the administration has irreparably broke, it is exasperating to pretend that this notion of use of technology to make the government work is something that Trump just thought to the right of the dome, an idea of ​​genius that no one else has ever had.

And by the way, we already had a whole government agency dedicated to that. Asset closed it.

But where a door closes, a window opens and, in this case, apparently, another billionaire in love with Trump slips. So effective!