On February 11, while thousands of civil servants ask if they had a job – or if their federal agencies would exist at all, as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk received a destroyed ball for the federal government – McLaurine Pinover had other things in her mind. Pinover, a political denominator of the Trump administration and the Director of Communication at the Personnel Management Office, was loading her dress on Instagram.
“I and my emotional shoulder wrap,” Pinover titled a video (along with hashtags #cozy, #petiteoustinspo, #dcStyle and #classicwithtwist) while it posed for the camera. In another clip, loaded January 29, 2025, Pinover models a brown skirt and top, hands on the hips. “The new office, the new view of the office,” she writes. “I’ve been sick + started a new job but excited to share my sights on this new adventure!” Here is a quick reminder of what was happening that day in Washington, DC.
Pinover’s Instagram has long disappeared, deleted a few minutes after CNN reporters contacted her for a story revealing her side hasha, where she was also trying to make money for her content. But I have been able to find some of the stored pages on Google:
Image: Instagram
OPM has played a central role in the Tactics of Research and Destruction of the Trump Administration-is OPM that is acting as the right hand of Musk in the federal workforce gutting; Email “fork on the road” who encourages civil servants to resign came from OPM; And it was OPM that required federal employees to summarize what they do every week to prove they are actually working. Together with the Government’s Efficiency Department, or Doge, the pseudo -Musk agency, OPM has been strange to identify (and punish) “debris, fraud and abuse”, however they choose to determine it.
Fortunately, I have an idea of where OPM can start. Many of the Pinover videos have been filmed in a non -written but regular office. CNN, which broke the story, includes an extraordinary quote from a former OPM communication official: “I saw it, and I was like,” Are you kidding me, this is my office. “” CNN also reports that the Pinover catalog dresses were separated during the work hours-vain for me! Pinover fashion account, @getdresswithmc, had only about 800 followers, with some videos receiving just a few dozen likes, which is not very effective or effective. If you are going to use your government office for taxpayers’ dishes to film Milquetoast Clothing videos, at least have the determination to be good at it.
One thing to share your very normal and average wardrobe into a private account – still a type of pressed, but perhaps not worthy of news coverage. But according to CNN, Pinover was also trying to make money for its content through the connections of collaborators. For current impacts, subsidiary connections can be very lucrative: they make a commission whenever someone buys a product using their connection. But with 800 followers, it’s unclear if Pinover was earning money. However, she was trying to report CNN that she was throwing products as a $ 475 skirt. Government supervision groups told CNN that Pinover’s actions seem to point out rules against the use of government resources for a private business and other unauthorized goals.
“Creating Content” as a job has become more applicable financial and social in the last decade, and many people with daily work are annoying to make wrappings or tickets or Vlogs on YouTube. In 2022, I wrote about the trend of Big Tech employees going viral per hour, recording footage in company offices like Apple, Google, and Discord and discussing their life careers and style. In this world, your daily work is part of your content waiters, blurring the lines between the role you pay for your bills and your social media platform you want to strengthen. While Pinover did not identify herself as a member of the Trump administration, her willingness to unfounded her Shopmy subsidiary signals to me: these are not serious people; And also, this is what is happening in the jobs throughout America, conflicts of interest and professional reputation are cursed.
Then again, we have a lot of evidence that many associated with this administration think of themselves as the first influencers and the public servant second. The White House is just a backdrop for a Tesla pop-up trader like Musk’s business. Over X, a shameful former member of the Matt Gaetz representative room is busy being a shill for a random metal investment firm (seemingly without proper discoveries, I can add). OPM did not immediately answer my questions whether Pinover’s actions are debris, deceit or abuse – but I am not holding my breath, given what belongs to its bosses. What do we say about when in Rome?