Everybody wants to be an influencer these days, and apparently that includes high-ranking federal-government bureaucrats in the Trump administration. On Wednesday, CNN reported that while the Office of Personnel Management was firing thousands of federal workers, the agency’s chief spokesperson was doing fit checks in her office.
McLaurine Pinover was appointed to her role in January after Trump took office. Since then, when she’s not defending DOGE cuts to the federal workforce, she’s been posting #OOTD content shot inside her government office. In the videos, thankfully preserved by CNN before Pinover deleted her account, the government official shared her outfits for her followers. (She loves long, flowy skirts; wearing gray; and draping a sweater over her shoulders.) CNN reported that Pinover was using hashtags like “#trendybuttimeless” and “#dcinfluencer” under the handle @getdressedwithmc.
Pinover apparently posted these videos regularly, including on February 13, a day when 20 people on her communications team lost their jobs. “While her team is getting axed, she’s twirling around in her office,” one former staffer told CNN. Jack Miller, Pinover’s predecessor in the role under Joe Biden who recognized his former office in the videos, chimed in, “To post that video the very day your entire team is getting laid off is ridiculous.”
Was it at least a good outfit? Not really! It was a floor-length, patterned brown skirt paired with a gray cardigan with an argyle pattern running down the front. She captioned the post “A moment for mixed patterns” and set it to “All the Stars” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA. It sucks that the collapse of the federal government is so tacky.
Thankfully, there is a punchline here. According to CNN, Pinover only had about 800 followers. Oof. She was really doing it for love of the game and the occasional $20 in affiliate-link cash. Pinover has not yet shared a statement about her using her federal-government office to make personal content during the workday. She still has her job, though, because what she’s doing is much more important than whatever park rangers and cancer researchers were up to.
The Cut has reached out to the OPM for comment and will update this post if we hear back.
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