And the sanewashing predictably continues.

Yes - an outside group charged with coming up with ideas to cut government waste is a reasonably sound idea.

But such a group led by a toxically self-absorbed and brazenly dishonest billionaire whose emotional development never made it past adolescence under the administration of an overtly treasonous and delusional pathological narcissist whose emotional development never made it past childhood is very much not a sound idea.

Is this satire like the onion?

...getting a lot of buzz, much of it tentatively hopeful

Yes, everyone is "tentatively hopeful" about the guy who torpedoed twitter, losing 80% of value in only two years, and turned it into hub of misinformation and hate.

Surely the richest man in the world has priorities that align with America.

That's a narrative!

Wow.