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Since McLaurine Pinover<\/strong> became the Office of Personnel Management\u2019s director of communications, she\u2019s been one of the highest profile defenders of Elon Musk<\/strong> and DOGE\u2019s most unpopular moves<\/a> to the media. On Tuesday, CNN<\/a> reported that Pinover was also working on a side hustle in her government office in the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, where she filmed influencer-style videos showing off her daily outfits.<\/p>\n The videos show her posing in what she captioned \u201c#professionalfashion,\u201d applying makeup, and practicing her smize for her 800 followers. CNN noted that Pinover\u2019s Instagram account was deleted minutes after they reached out to her for comment. According to CNN, Pinover\u2019s Instagram also linked out to her account on ShopMy, a website with the slogan \u201cMonetize Your Influence,\u201d which helps creators earn commission on some sales through their affiliate links. It\u2019s unclear whether she made any money on the site. (Vanity Fair<\/em> has contacted Pinover for comment.)<\/p>\n Times are tough for government employees, but Pinover\u2019s attempts at influencing suggest she should (try to) keep her day job. Though her outfits reportedly incorporate<\/a> pieces from youthful mid-market brands like Tibi (an aubergine skirt that retails for $475) and Cinq \u00e0 Sept (a black dress that runs at about $300), the proportions are off and the drab office surroundings aren\u2019t doing any favors. She has none of the sultry verve we\u2019ve come to expect from the internet\u2019s most notable MAGA fashion plates,<\/a> but still falls short of the mainstream\u2019s current dedication to putting personal style above all else<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two of her frumpier choices\u2014a blousy black-and-white polka dot frock and a cardigan over a long plaid skirt\u2014are giving \u201ctrad wife visits husband\u2019s office.\u201d The look is on-brand, as Project 2025 makes it pretty clear the GOP doesn\u2019t want too many women in the workplace<\/a>. In a picture dated December 2024, posted by The Herald Group<\/a> on X, Pinover is pictured in a burgundy satin skirt and an ice blue shirt. Not a tragic color combination, but the shirt is both partially unbuttoned and millennially tucked, with accessories cinched around the French cuffs on both arms. Dubious at best.<\/p>\n According to McLaurine Pinover\u2019s since-deleted LinkedIn profile, she graduated from Auburn University and worked in the White House during Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s first term. Since joining the new Trump administration in January, Pinover has put up a fulsome defense<\/a> of firing veterans. \u201cOPM recognizes the dedication and service of all federal employees, including our veteran work force, and remains committed to supporting them during this transition,\u201d\u00a0she told The<\/em> New York Times<\/em> after nearly 6,000 veterans lost their jobs.<\/p>\n She also touted the benefits<\/a> of the \u201cFork in the Road\u201d memo pressuring government workers to resign\u2014calling the purportedly \u201ccarefully designed, thoroughly vetted\u201d program a \u201clegal and a valuable option for federal employees\u201d\u2014and talked up the merits<\/a> of asking every government employee to justify their jobs in a five-point email.<\/p>\n In another era, influencing from a federal building might cause an outcry, but as the Trump era proceeds, the DOGE boosters might be taking their cues from on high. On Tuesday<\/a>, Trump turned the White House into an especially odd Tesla dealership in an attempt to support Musk\u2019s cratering net worth.<\/a> After fast-food chain Steak \u2019n Shake jumped on the MAHA bandwagon by swapping vegetable oil for beef tallow to make their fries, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy<\/strong> stopped by a location<\/a> with Fox News\u2019s Sean Hannity,<\/strong> and the pair shared a meal onscreen.<\/p>\n Donald Sherman,<\/strong> chief counsel of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told CNN that the Pinover videos are insulting to the scores of government workers who have lost their jobs amid DOGE\u2019s chaotic actions. \u201cI would be very curious if she included her efforts to promote her brand as part of the five things that she accomplished that week,\u201d said Sherman. \u201cThis Trump administration appointee is violating the public trust at the same time as she seems to be instrumental in the administration\u2019s attack on civil servants.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n