MSNBC Panel Bursts into Laughter When Discussing Trump’s HUD Secretary Pick: Has There Ever Been a White Housing Secretary?

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Going to be used to, and a lot of this is going to happen behind the scenes and folks won’t see it.
>> People will not see it. I mean there’s a lot of picks that, again, we talked about in the beginning, Scott Turner. He is a motivational speaker and he’s going to lead the department of housing and urban development.
>> Bless him, leading hud.
>> I mean it — first of all, why does everybody — I mean every single president, has there ever been a white person who has been the secretary of housing and urban development?
>> Not since the 1960s I’m sure.
>> It is a rhetorical question, but, yes, there has been, but I’m just kind of like, okay, all right. So a lot of —
>> Not recently.
>> Well, I’m glad we have one here today on the list. Because look at this list. These are the Trump cabinet picks thus far. Okay. We also have Scott Bessent, he is going to serve as the Treasury secretary. I mean, what, y’all got something to say?
>> No.
>> I just was asking, and it is not just Republicans that do it, okay.
>> Scott though, I don’t know what it is about hud.
>> Bush did it. What is it about hud.
>> D don’t want that job either.
>> You don’t have a lot of black folks lining up to be hud.
>> Put me in charge of commerce.
>> Yeah, put me in charge of commerce, treasury.
>> Okay. Here we are.
>> Housing, giving the fact — we are joking about it but I just want to know, look, housing, we talk about the campaign, bread and butter issues, the economy. Housing is one that when you ask people the follow-up question what they mean by economy, they talk about prices are too high, the housing, the rent, the affordability of housing. So actually who is head — the secretary of hud matters. When the immediate past secretary of hud in the Biden Administration was in charge, she took on appraisals, discriminatory appraisals. She built public/private partnerships in building new housing. I just — this position matters, Eugene.
>> It is definitely going to matter over the next four years. One of the things we heard every single day when we talked to voters, when we talked to the campaign was that housing came up every single time because it is a thing in pricing, in your wallet that you see every single month, right? It happens every single 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, if you are later than 15th of the month when people have to pay that bill and it was rising. There weren’t enough housing for people who wanted to leave their first home, therefore, people couldn’t get their first home, and then apartment prices were all over the place and it was across the political spectrum. And, more importantly, across age groups. So whatever, you know, he’s going to do at hud is going to be something a lot of people are watching. That’s why when I talk to folks who, you know, were confused about this pick a little bit, it was that this gig is going to be one that is going to shape how Americans view this administration in a lot of ways.
>> Right.
>> The prices stay where they are, they’re not going to be — he is not going to get any credit for it.
>> Speaking of shaping not just America’s views but shaping the course of this new government, “The New York Times” reporting on vought and project 2025, notes vought’s role in project 2025 was to oversee executive orders and other unilateral actions Trump could take during his first six months in office with the goal of tearing down and rebuilding executive Branch institutions in a way that would enhance presidential power. At the end of the day that’s why all of these people are here. Project 2025, which everybody on the GOP and MAGA ran away from over the course of the summer, are now seemingly, oh, I don’t know, using as a foundation for the government. Who’d have thought of that?
>> You guys. You’ve talked about it a lot. I think like, you know, this is something that folks are not going to pay a lot of attention to. People are exhausted by politics at this point, but it is something that they probably should pay a lot of attention to, right? The kinds of things that they’re going to do on the executive Branch level, right? Executive power has been expanding for a long time, and it is not just Republicans who have done it. Democrats have done it as well. So we’re going to see how far they can stretch it. The difference is that a lot of the courts stop certain things that some of the Democrats wanted to do on executive. We saw it a lot with Joe Biden. The Supreme Court seems poised to be okay with a lot of the things that Donald Trump and vought want to do when it comes to the executive Branch and executive power. So it is a place that a lot of things are going to change, possibly quickly, and Americans should pay a lot of attention to it because it is one of those things that will actually affect their daily lives.
>> Eugene —
>> I just want to note since its inception because people are going to fact check us, hud had six black secretaries. During the Clinton administration the secretary of hud was, in fact, not black but the secretary of commerce was. Come on now, President Clinton.
>> There you go. All right. There it is. Thank you so much, Eugene. Appreciate you being at the