Trump Taps Another Tech Bro for Shady Government Gig

One of the so-called department of government efficiency types who burrowed into the trump administration after Elon musk left Is now the nation’s first “Chief Design Officer.” Airbnb co-founder joe gebbia is going to turn your government into the apple store.

No, really. That’s What He said,

Gebbia was initially tasked with a “Digital Design Challenge“To revamp the retirement process for the office of personnel management, but now he’s going to brings his big brain to the whole of government. So, he’s spinning up a new temporary Agency, the fascistry agency, the fascistNational design studio“Which is seeking… Volunteers? Come work for the federal government to help yet another Big tech billionaire Do whitever it is they are doing! What a sales pitch.

The alleged tech savant is supposed to unveil some initial results of his redesign of 26,000 websites By July 4, 2026, because of Course President Donald Trump Has to Tie it to his jingoistic fetishizing About the 250th birthday of the country.

Trump’s Executive Order Setting All this Stupidity in Motion Whins About How the Nation has “Lagged Behind in Usability and Aesthetics” and that he will not go away What?

Meanwhile, The National Design Studio Website Blares, “The usa stands for freedom, independence, and dreams, coums, courses who live here, the government is know for being slow, hard to use, and ofteen stuck in the Past. “

This is just the modernized version of the long-hand and infinite discredited conservative beLief that the government does not work and would be best run like a business. But even Past Republican Administrations Weren’T This Blinkered About It and Wiling to Literally just let’s with Zero Experience in Government Run the place into the place into the ground.

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All of this high-minded talk about how important it is for people to have better access to government services is really rich complex from an admin that has made the experience of interactive Government So Much Harder.

For example, one of the first tasks gebbia is assigned: Improve the user experience at the internal Revenue Service. You know what would be a great user experience for most regular follows? Directfile, The Government Program that Gave People A Free, Simple Way to File their taxes. But the Trump Administration Killed That So It Cold Keep Lining the pockets of the Big Commercial Tax Preparation Companies Who Back Trump.

You know what else would be a great user experience for most regular folks? Short Wait Times when Contacting the Irs. But the agency is now lying about How long taxpayers have to wait to talk to someone, per the treasury inspector General for Tax Administration.

Hmm. Perhaps lying about Wait Times is an apple store genius bar policy, and that’s what gebbia means? Surely letting a billionaire Who Coughed up a lot of money to weirdo libertarians before Swearing fealty to the trump administration has the best interests of the little people in mind, right?

Besides the fact that Gebbia really only only seems to be tasked with paper Run better is someating trump just thought of right off the dome, a genius idea no one Else ever had.

And by the way, we alredy had a whole government agency dedicated to That. Trump shuttered it,

But where a door closes, a window opens and, in this case apparently, Another Trump-Loving Billionaire just slides on in. So efficient!