Rachel Maddow Exposes Bizarre Questions in Trump Admin Hiring Form

On Monday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow delivered a scathing report on the unusual and invasive questions allegedly included in a hiring questionnaire for President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services. Maddow highlighted the bizarre nature of the form, raising concerns about its appropriateness for a government job application process.

Maddow began by painting a picture of a typical job application scenario, only to reveal a disturbing twist. “Imagine you are applying for a job,” she said. “They ask you to fill out an intake form, and specifically, they ask you to disclose on this intake form to your potential new employer if these specific personality characteristics, you think, apply to you. ‘I like to show off my body.’ ‘I like to look at myself in the mirror.’ Is that one of your personality characteristics? Your potential new employer wants to know.”

She continued reading from the form, emphasizing the oddity of the questions. “‘I don’t have that much interest in having sexual experiences with another person.’ Excuse me? Sorry?” Maddow said incredulously. “Again, this is from your boss, from your would-be boss, asking you these questions.”

Maddow listed other baffling questions reportedly included on the form: “‘I consistently use my physical appearance to draw attention to myself.’ ‘I have chronic feelings of emptiness.’ ‘I love large parties.’ ‘I leave a mess in my room.’ ‘I do not enjoy going to art museums.’ ‘I get upset when people don’t notice how I look when I go out in public.’”

However, Maddow saved the most outlandish question for last. “‘I believe in things many others don’t, like having a sixth sense, clairvoyance, and telepathy, and as an adolescent, I had bizarre fantasies or preoccupations.’”

Maddow then offered her sharp critique of the application process. “No normal person would tolerate that kind of thing being asked in a job application process,” she said. “If your would-be boss asks you how interested you are in sex, and your would-be boss wants you to put this answer in writing and submit it to the company, call HR, right? Nobody wants to, but honestly, call HR, maybe call the cops. Definitely don’t take that job.”

Concluding the segment, Maddow asserted that Trump’s team had confirmed the existence of this questionnaire, further intensifying concerns about the hiring process for a potential second term under Donald Trump. “That is the questionnaire being administered to people who want to work for the U.S. government,” she warned.

The report raised eyebrows not only for its content but for what it suggests about Trump’s priorities in staffing government positions—an issue likely to spark further scrutiny.