Twitter user @OG_Pinochet (AKA Big Bowls), who proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in three consecutive elections specifically because Trump promised to drastically reduce the federal workforce, expressed shock and dismay this week after the Trump administration reduced the federal workforce by eliminating his position.
Bowls, who worked as an IT technician for a federal agency for 35 years, was among thousands of federal employees terminated in recent months as part of the administration's Department of Government Efficiency initiative, a program he enthusiastically supported right up until it applied to him personally.
"I voted for him because he said he'd drain the swamp and cut government waste," Bowls explained while packing up his home office. "I just didn't think he meant the gainfully employed IT professionals who voted for him three times. I thought he meant other people's jobs."
The layoffs are part of Trump and Elon Musk's plan to cut spending and reduce the size of the federal workforce, which has resulted in thousands of probationary workers being fired and 77,000 workers voluntarily leaving through a deferred resignation offer—a policy Bowls described as "exactly what I wanted" until receiving his own termination notice.
When asked whether he saw any connection between voting for a candidate who explicitly campaigned on mass federal layoffs and subsequently being laid off from his federal job, Bowls stared blankly for several seconds before changing the subject to immigration policy.
"The foreigners took my job," Bowls clarified, somehow managing to blame his termination by a U.S. administration on foreigners despite being fired by Americans pursuant to an American president's American policy agenda that he American-ly voted for three American times.
Other Trump-supporting federal workers who have been terminated expressed similar sentiments, with one veteran describing his shock at the administration's lack of "thought or planning" in implementing the exact chaotic government-slashing agenda they voted for.
