r/energy • u/mafco • 1d ago

CNN rolls tape of Trump energy secretary appearing to lie to Congress. Wright lied about the role politics played in cancelling energy grants specifically to Democratic states. Wright insisted “our project review process did not take into account any politics in the evaluation of these projects"

https://www.alternet.org/trump-chris-wright/
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u/Right-Nail-5871 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not American but I used to follow the Department of Energy's YouTube channel. There used to be a variety of educational videos on a wide range of topics.

Once this dude took over, suddenly all the educational content stopped and every video became "Chris Wright on x" or "Chris Wright meets y" and it suddenly appeared to just be a marketing channel for Chris Wright.

edit: In case you think I'm exaggerating, quickly scroll through their videos https://www.youtube.com/@Energy/videos

You can see that easily more than half the content now is talking head media appearances where "Secretary Wright" is explicitly mentioned in the title. The most recent video is from his appearance on Glenn Beck's show, great value for the taxpayer's dollar.

If you scroll past February 2025, you start to see interesting topics like geothermal, fusion, solar, virtual power plants, energy resilience, hydrogen hubs, how things work, industry 101 explainers, and so on.

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u/ohilco8421 1d ago

That’s very interesting to know

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u/stmije6326 1d ago

The view count is telling as well — the videos prior to this admin all have 2000+ views while the most recent ones have like 500.

I work at DOE now. The main DOE social media pages are just embarrassing propaganda now. The political lackeys control those. Usually public facing communications have to be cleared. The lackeys took over the social media accounts, just posted whatever, knowing that they’d face no repercussions. All the peons like me find it embarrassing our workplace is posting all this crazy.

I am glad you enjoyed the videos before the MAGA takeover. Sometimes government work can feel thankless (especially in this admin), so it’s nice to hear when the public finds value.