All members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced their resignation on Wednesday, releasing a statement accusing Donald Trump’s administration of political interference in the prestigious exchange program.
The 12-member board alleged the Trump administration “usurped the authority of the Board” by denying Fulbright awards to “a substantial number of individuals” who were selected for the 2025-2026 academic year.
The board also alleged the administration is currently “subjecting” an additional 1,200 international Fulbright recipients to “an unauthorized review process and could reject more.”
Sadly Trump the fuck that he is will see this as an opportunity to fill the vacuum with little Steven Millers.
I’d love nothing more than to vacuum up a bunch of little Steve Millers.
Insert crass Steven Miller fellatio joke here
Yes, quitting is the best way to fix it.
Sends a message for one news article, an action like this does. Then they all get replaced by lackeys and the new Fulbright Scholarship board does whatever Trump wants.
I’d think it’s better to advocate change from within and use your power to shed light on the bullshit through years of leaks to media, while doing your best to shield the organisation from the worst decisions, than to just quit in a huff of solidarity.
The problem is that it puts you in a lose-lose situation.
MAGA doesn’t give up. Their entire method of takeover is to flood you in a sea of shit to either force you to quit or make your life miserable if you don’t. If they’re in a position to do that, that means they’re likely already in the majority and you’ll never be able to accomplish anything of substance during your tenure, and they’ll just ignore or shout you down during any kind of official meeting until you just give up. And they’re playing the long game. They’ll wait.
So you get to choose a tenure of frustration as you accomplish exactly nothing and watch as your name gets attached to every bad committee meeting the MAGA morons make (because you’re still a member of that committee), or you can quit and watch all of your accomplishments be hand-waived away by whatever up-and-coming MAGA cocksucker takes your seat. It’s like asking if you want to be shot or stabbed.
Also, letting them put incompetent people in charge will make the entire house of cards collapse more quickly, which in turn will help spur change when people get sick of their shit, which will inevitably happen.
MAGA are patient, playing the long game, they’ll wait? These are the guys that wear diapers to virtue signal they’re Trumpers, and charge into the Capitol building when they lose an election.
They’re neither intelligent nor patient - they just have NEAR ZERO pushback from all the people in institutions around them, everyone turning to the person next to them going, “gosh that’s … can you believe they’re doing that - that’s unconstitutional and definitely illegal”.
I read the article, and even the outgoing Fulbright board just handball the problem to the next people.
[With] the board calling on Congress, the courts and future Fulbright Boards to “prevent the administration’s efforts to degrade, dismantle, or even eliminate one of our nation’s most respected and valuable programs.”
Why the hell are they not doing that? It’s cowardly and its essentially a strongly worded letter.
