Cenk Uygur
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Trump's Commerce Secretary: Saudi King So Great Nobody Even Protests!
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4:50Now PlayingWilbur Ross is stoked about the bushels of dates the Saudis gave him. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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“Of the many millionaires and billionaires in Donald Trump’s inner circle, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands out for his consistently convincing impression of a 19th-century robber baron. There are the superficial similarities, of course—his ominously bald pate, for instance, and his penchant for $500 custom-made velvet slippers embroidered with the Commerce Department logo. Others are almost too on the nose. Ross, who is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, previously served as the head of a secret Wall Street fraternity, whose off-color jokes, hazing rituals, and annual drag show he tried to protect by offering himself as a future source to help kill a story. In 2014, he appeared on Bloomberg TV to complain that the “1 percent is being picked on for political reasons” and that the unwashed masses could easily join his tax bracket if they wanted to (“Education is the way that people get out of the ghetto and into, if not the 1 percent, something close to it”). Earlier this month, he described a U.S. airstrike in Syria as “after-dinner entertainment” for the Mar-a-Lago crowd (the best part, he added, was that it “didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment”).”*
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Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.(American Heritage Dictionary)
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