Mary Trump reacted to reporting that her cousin, Donald Trump Jr., is the de facto leader of one faction of Donald Trump’s transition team that apparently includes Vice President-elect JD Vance.
“There are reports coming out of fractures at Mar-a-Lago, and The Washington Post has reported that Donald’s team has essentially been split into three camps,” Mary Trump said in a video on her YouTube channel about what she called the “civil war” within her uncle’s team.
“There’s team Donny — that would be Donald’s oldest child — and the fact that he’s leading a team is, it should be a red flag already,” she continued. “This team features JD Vance and Tucker Carlson, the so-called MAGA warriors, which is an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one.”
“Interestingly though, JD Vance, who is the actual [vice] president-elect, is not running this group,” she observed. “But what could we expect from a bunch of incompetent idiots?”
She also suggested that Vance is becoming “irrelevant” and “there’s a very, very good possibility that Donald has no interest in allowing Vance to play a role in the transition.”
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the president-elect’s transition team has broken up into several competing camps.
“The president loves when people are kind of going at it with each other because often it is the way to get to the right people,” one source told the Post.
One group is reportedly steered, unofficially, by Donald Trump Jr., and includes Vance, former Fox News host Carlson and ex-Trump administration official Cliff Sims.
Another faction is said to sit under Susie Wiles, Trump’s campaign co-chair and future White House chief of staff. And a third is made up of people tied to the America First Policy Institute, including the conservative think tank’s president, Brooke Rollins, and transition co-chair and World Wrestling Entertainment founder Linda McMahon.
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According to the Post, the “freewheeling” team has seen “shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling.”
“Because nothing says adults in the room like physical confrontations over who gets to sit at the cool kids table,” Mary Trump quipped.
Check out her commentary on her Mary Trump Media channel below.