A Trump Science Advisor Left A Cheeky Hidden Message In His Resignation Letter

There are honestly too many Trump administration officials ditching their jobs, so if you’re gonna do it you should at least have the decency to leave a cryptic message in your public resignation letter. I mean seriously.

Such was the strategy of Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed by Barack Obama last year as a science envoy to the State Department. Kammen quit his job by posting a very public letter to Twitter, in which he criticised Trump for his remarks on the violence in Charlottesville.

Kammen is (or was, I suppose) one of five U.S. science envoys, who – according to the State Department website – “leverage their expertise and networks to forge connections and identify opportunities for sustained international cooperation.” Sounds like a lot of baloney to me!

Behold, the letter in question:

“Acts and words matter,” Kammen writes. “To continue in my role under your administration would be inconsistent with the principles of the United States Oath of Allegiance to which I adhere.”

Reasonably stock standard stuff. Where it gets fun is the acronym created by the first letter of every paragraph.

I-M-P-E-A-C-H. HOO BOY! Donald is surely smarting over this one, team. He’s probably going to resign tomorrow thanks to this frankly brutal tweet. The first president slain by a tweet? It’s more likely than you think.

No, but seriously. If we’re talking impeachment, the actual big conversation is whether Trump will follow through with what he said in PhoenixArizona and pardon controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.

He didn’t do it at the rally, claiming that it would cause “controversy” but if he does it, that’d be grounds for impeachment. Or such is the argument being made in an article in Bloomberg today, who argue that it could cause a significant Constitutional boondoggle.

But look, for now, enjoy the resignation letter.

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