A new “Progressive Shadow Cabinet” aimed at countering President Donald Trump’s policies launched Monday with a call to join the team of “experts.”
The first tweet from Twitter account @ShadowingTrump showed a montage of heroic teams assembling, starting with Brad Pitt in the Nazi-killing romp “Inglorious Basterds” telling a group of American bad-asses that he’s “putting together a special team.”
The montage continues to show clips of Ben Affleck’s Batman assembling a proto-Justice League group of superheroes in “Batman Vs. Superman;” Scarlett Johansson exhorting a band of women, with whom they must stick together to survive, in the movie “Mad Max: Fury Road;” and finally, John Belushi proclaiming that he’s getting the band back together from the movie “The Blues Brothers.”
We’re putting the team together… pic.twitter.com/2zZOHhl4um
— Shadow Cabinet (@ShadowingTrump) February 26, 2017
The superhero comparison is no accident. The mission statement claims to be “Sort of an online ‘Justice League,'” according to the group’s mission statement.
The shadow cabinet of progressive experts, assembled by Mark Green, a former New York City public defender, will “debunk Trump & appointees in real-time,” and will “comment agency-by-agency not just on small ‘lies’ but especially on false narratives in the service of political ends,” the mission statement says.
1/2 Today we’re launching our Progressive Shadow Cabinet of agency-by-agency experts to debunk Trump & appointees in real-time. pic.twitter.com/lRfi5uCflI
— Shadow Cabinet (@ShadowingTrump) February 27, 2017
The group stresses that its problem with the Trump administration “is not a partisan,” but rather a “substantive concern that unrebutted distortions confuse credulous citizens & produce bad policies.”
“Please follow us … unless you think our democracy is working just fine,” the mission statement concludes.
The shadow cabinet has 15 “citizen secretaries” so far, covering energy, civil rights, education, foreign policy, healthcare and the environment, Axios reports. (RELATED: Dems Play White House, Form ‘Shadow Cabinet’ To Complain On Twitter)
Green, the group’s founder, is a semi-regular contributor to the Huffington Post, where he wrote about the 2016 campaign. His bio also notes that he won the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2001, but lost the general election to Michael Bloomberg by two points.
Follow Thomas Phippen on Twitter
Send tips to thomas@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.