‘Put his name on everything’: Social Security Administration disseminates Trump propaganda
Unbelievable. I was a deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Appointed by President Biden. The agency has never issued such a blatant political statement. The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable. pic.twitter.com/6XqYcjRGVg
— Jeff Nesbit (@jeffnesbit) July 3, 2025
Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s used every means possible to promote himself and prop up his agenda in unprecedented ways — even as he pulls apart the government brick by brick.
Now, it’s happening at the embattled Social Security Administration, which manages America’s core safety-net program. On Thursday, after Republicans passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — legislation that will slash taxes for the rich, rob millions of poor people of their health insurance, and turbocharge the president’s militarized deportations — the Social Security Administration sent out an email to an untold number of Americans claiming the bill “reaffirms President Trump’s promise to protect Social Security” while offering a range of misinformation about what the new law does.
For one thing, the Big Beautiful Bill does not protect Social Security. It will actually “hasten Social Security insolvency by a year,” according to Kathleen Romig, the director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank. This is one of several claims in the Social Security Administration email that Romig flagged as “highly misleading” in a thread on Bluesky.
However, the bizarre email is just one small part of a sprawling, government-wide project that is already costing American taxpayers well upwards of a billion dollars, as Trump officials prioritize the mass distribution of MAGA propaganda in ways that would likely make many veterans of Trump’s first term blush.
According to a current administration official and another Trump adviser, various offices at different federal departments and agencies spend inordinate amounts of time finding ways to sell even small developments as massive, earth-shaking Trump accomplishments. “Put his name on everything,” is how the administration official characterized the ongoing trend across the federal government, the national Republican Party, and elsewhere. [Continue reading…]