Trump's Pick to Head the VA is Nicknamed 'Scrote.' And He Earned It the Hard Way
Source – President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ronny Jackson, has now served as a physician under three presidents and carries a peculiar nickname from former President George W. Bush: “Scrote.”
The Washington Post reports that Bush awarded Jackson the nickname after the physician cut himself in the leg with a hoe at the former president’s ranch in Texas. As Jackson began to stitch up his own leg, Bush protested, but Jackson resisted assistance.
“It’s OK, I’ve sewn myself up before,” Jackson said, recounting a story for the president of a time that the physician had administered stitches to his own testicle. Bush liked the story so much that he gave the doctor the nickname “Scrote.”
Prior to his nomination in March to lead the VA, Jackson served as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and currently serves as the physician to the president under Trump.
Jackson’s nomination has come under criticism from lawmakers who argue Jackson is unqualified to run the VA citing the physicians lack of experience managing a major bureaucracy.
Regardless of your political leanings, there is one issue that all Americans across the spectrum and on both sides of the aisle should agree on: The Veteran’s Administration is a national disgrace. And while I don’t know much beyond this story about Ronny Jackson, this is enough. I am all in on his nomination. And don’t much appreciate the very people who have gorged themselves at the public trough while the VA has been going to shit questioning his qualifications.
Show me a man who can sew up his own scrotum and I will show you a man I want in charge. That is a man of action who’ll get shit done. There are two kinds of people in the world: The kind with a genius for pointing out a problem and those who solve them. And I know which has my respect. Anyone can say “My scrotum is sliced open. Somebody do something.” It’s a rare guy who’ll grab his sutures, roll up his sleeves, spread his knees and get to work.
Jackson is like Dalton in Road House, sewing up his own wounds because he’s had a lot of experience and he’s a total badass. And because to him, pain don’t hurt. A Navy doctor with the courage to stitch his own yambag back together isn’t about to abandon aging fellow vet who fought at Chosin or leave some Marine who lost a leg to an IED waiting for a prosthetic.
So blow it out your asses, doubters and kleptocrats who want one of their own kind in there just because that’s how business has always been done in DC. Our veterans need Ronny Jackson and his scarred ballsack and they needed them five minutes ago. Vote for Scrote.