Has Palin hit bottom? Describes feeling rejected, being denied credentials to GOP national convention

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in an interview with Al Arabiya News said she hopes President Donald Trump will appoint her to some position in his administration, preferably related to energy.

But she said she’s having trouble getting a meeting with Trump because of his gatekeepers.

“Again, President Trump knows where I am. You know, we have a good relationship. He knows that my administrative experience on a local level, at a state level, being chair of resources on a federal level to help with energy independence, he knows my area of expertise. We need to tap into everyone who has an ability and a willingness to serve this country. I’m certainly willing and I’m able. I hope he calls me,” she told Tom Burges-Watson, the interviewer for Al Arabiya.

“I know that there is that question out there as to why I’m not tapped into yet. President Trump has around him some gatekeepers that have made it very difficult to kind of, I guess, ingratiate oneself into the idea of the agenda that must be Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in an interview with Al Arabiya News, said she hopes President Donald Trump will appoint her to a position in his administration, preferably related to energy.

According to Palin, she could not even secure credentials to attend the Republican nominating convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2024, despite being a former vice-presidential nominee who spoke at the podium when she ran with Senator John McCain in 2008. Back then, she was invited to everything, but not now.

“I haven’t been invited to things. That’s OK because you kind of get used to that. I’m not gonna say rejection, but you kind of get used to that redirection. That is protection,” she said, reprising her role as victim.

Watch the interview at Al Arabiya News’ YouTube channel.

In the interview, Palin also commented on Trump restoring the name of Mount McKinley after it had been changed to Denali by President Barack Obama in 2015.

“It didn’t need to have its name changed to start with. It’s always been Mount McKinley and McKinley Park. It’s absolutely beautiful. We locals up here and as governor, former governor, we’ve always called it Mount McKinley. So when it was changed to Denali for no reason. No, nobody was begging for a change in name in that peak. Just put it back the way it was, more common sense. There are so many other things that need to be focused on. So changing the name back to what it was from the beginning makes sense.”

Ironically, she called the mountain Denali many times in the past and her code name used by the Secret Service during her vice presidential run was “Denali.”

91 COMMENTS

  1. This is a hoot.
    “ He knows where I am” and “ my area of expertise” Ha
    I think she is sadly delusional
    At least her outsized ego is intact.

    • Me thinks that she yapped all the secrets she knows of to Trump. He led her on for some time now. Let her rage at a rally. After that it was a hard pass on communicado with the crazy bitch. Now I think she’s trying to threaten Trump lightly with the “you know my number” routine.
      Welp. Trump just put out a mob pic of himself with the hat. Don’t mess with the mob there Scarecrow. Might not end well.

  3. Trump also understands you supported Mary Peltola when she won a term in Congress. Oh sure, you ran a half-hearted race against her. The problems were the accolades you showered on Marxist Mary. Not that Trump cares. But he does have an image to protect.

  4. She keeps stepping on her own tongue. Would have been much better for her to have read the room and kept her mouth shut. She’s added more grist for the Palin irrelevancy mill. Please, for your sake and for Alaska’s, quietly go away. Your time in the limelight was squandered. Deal with it.

      • Rob I disagree as she told the head of Exxon if they did not develop PtThomson that the State was to take the leases away . He said some bad remark and when he left her office and he pointed his finger at her , she told him “ to not let the door hit him in the A$$ “ . Now most of the exploratory drilling on the slope is on the east side near the pipeline that Exxon was required to build .

        Bill Armstrong is known as the most successful “Wildcatter “ in US history with his Pikka find . He’s currently drilling near PtThomson and the company that owns Badami is drilling a twin . In the old world that’s huge . They are delineating the size of the field they drilled last year . This is the oil pool that BP could not ever find .

  10. This is painful to watch and it’s excruciating to listen to her. Sarah is circling the rim on the bowl of a word salad.

  11. Fame and fortune can be very addicting. Unfortunately it often has a way of destroying lives, families and a general grip on reality. Case in point.

  12. In case no one is aware of the fact Governor Palin’s oil and gas laws policies allowed Alaska to have smaller competitors like Bill Armstrong and others finally breaking down the big oil monopoly WALL that kept smaller oil and gas competitors out due to red tape and abuse. The attacks on small oil and gas competitors resumed to this day since she left, only now with Governor Dunleavy and his Trump-like Department of Natural Resource Commissioner John Boyle has any oil and gas competitors large or small had a chinaman’s chance in hell or a snowball’s chance in hell in success. Alaska had great leadership with Governor Dunleavy and his team, as for Alaska’s few remaining oil and gas competitors all should wish Governor Palin a wonderful retirement as we do President Biden. Drill Baby Drill at Greater Point Thomson Unit and ANWR: God Bless America and Alaska’s energy future and its wonderful workers.

  13. Sara was one of the most delusional Governors Alaska had. She says she’s conservative but she supported extreme leftist policies! And Sara put in one of the most restrictive policies with the taxes she leaved on oil and gas development companies. She’s now irrelevant! Go back to your Arizona home!

  14. She’s wrong, as usual. I’ve been up here my entire life. Most locals have always called it Denali, even when it was Mount McKinley on a map. Only Outsiders called it “Mount McKinley” when they first moved here, but quickly learned. If it’s renamed McKinley we will still call it Denali. Who cares.

    • Wrong, Joe.

      I have always called it “Mt. McKinley”, as did everyone else I ever knew or met. It is only radical leftists and those who pander to the dysfunctional Alaskan Native voter who call it “Denali”.

      PS: “Denali” was the name, in one particular Alaskan Indian language (Koyukon), for any large mountain in general, and not necessarily Mt. McKinley in particular. There is nothing unique or sacrosanct about that name.

    • We name mountains, streets, towns, etc. after great men and women. To keep their memory alive. To keep their memory as an example. It wasn’t renamed to “honor native culture”. It was renamed to erase McKinley. Just like military bases are being renamed. And statues are torn down.

  15. Loser Lisa came out against Pete Hegseth for DOD, again against her own constituents ~ oopsie, for her constituents (DEMS) absolutely worthless.

  16. Sarah, you are so yesteryear. No one cares.
    If you want attention, go to NYC and walk naked down Broadway. The Enquirer “might” run a story.

          • Hey. Where’s the reason why Sarah resigned at? Word is that one’s DNA upchucked graves in Russia and Jerusalem. Odd that there are wars in both countries now? Anyhoo, I also heard that one is worth trillions. Yikes. Welp. That explains why Trump just frantically signed a bunch of things to block the transfer of funds back to the Birthright owner.
            Hollis French coined that nickname.
            Gosh now all Trump can yap about is birthright citizenship. Why is that?
            I mean someone else has told Trump that if he kicks out that Birthright owner, the trillions go with, right? ?

    • And more. Alaska is going to be the nation’s largest oil producer and one of the largest economies, thanks to the leadership of the President and Governor Dunleavy and his wonderful Natural Resources Commissioner John Boyle both are in lock step with President Trump in my opinion, Drill Baby Drill and make Alaska energy dominant. A lot of people forget Alaska was the biggest oil producer in America, let’s pray Alaska can be great again ??✝️

  19. Having this article side by side on the MRA website to the article describing Murkowski voting no on Hegseth is screen photo material. I sure recorded it. Maybe I can use it later to headstrong Republicans and conservatives to illustrate their image problems.

  21. When the Donald was first elected in 2016, Ms. Palin made a highly-publicized trip to meet with President-elect at Trump Tower. No appointment came out of that meeting and Ms. Palin was, at that time more politically visible. Now eight years later, the President has much more experience in picking people and Ms. Palin has added almost nothing to a political resume that essentially ended sixteen years ago. No government appointment is coming. She should be working with her entertainment agent for new gigs in that field.

    • Despite the fawning towards Trump, the party is still stock full of Schmidt-types. You only notice the Murkowski brands who are militant instead of the boot lickers.

  26. Governor Palin is slowly learning what Vivek “Screech” Ramaswamy just learned: if one’s ambition is to use proximity to Trumpworld to burnish your own credentials, distract the message and try to gain spotlight. Trumpworld will exile you.

    • I’d remind you that Palin created her conservative brand during the 1994 Republican Revolution, long before Trump ever made noises of running for POTUS. Maybe that was long before you were old enough too vote?

      • Take it easy, sport. Governor Palin wanted her name to be featured on the movie poster, and Trumpworld told her she was an extra, not a star. Then they canned her.

        • She was “canned” by Steve Schmidt during his disastrous leadership of the McCain/Palin Presidential campaign, not by Trump. Trump (and/or staff) simply hasn’t included her. Moreover, Trump’s history with staff is now legendary. He will be remembered by history like Lincoln with regard to his horrible staff, military, and cabinet picks (which should be expected during a peaceful revolution). It looks like you’d fare similarly.

  27. At one point Sarah was the most popular governor in the country. She made Alaska great again. Under her leadership we put $20 billion into savings, and our economy was roaring.

    In my personal interactions with Sarah she was always polite, smart, and never hesitated to say thanks if I did something to help her.

    She should have a role if she wants to serve.

    • I totally agree M . However MCain was the reason they lost the election . She was soaring in popularity . It was amazing , her rise . Then she became tabloid fodder . They trashed her whole family . Bogus media accounts , her best friends turned against her . Getting sued by everyone . It was a sad day when she resigned from the Governorship in my mind . I bet looking back she wished she had not resigned .

      Then this goofy RCV election where the AkGOP did not properly explain what having two people running for the house would do to the conservative vote , put Portola in their . Yep you dummies running the GOP failed miserably . We were totally blind sided by RCV . Another one of Sarah’s legacies . Not good .

      Met her a few times and she was very passionate Alaskan with good moral grounding . The same folks that worked to destroy DJT , used same tactics on Sarah . Sad !

  29. I agree M. In President Trump’s first campaign she was one of his top advisors. He was a New York BLOOMBERG Republican, and She toured with him throughout the Midwest State Fairs introducing him to The Heart of America. She was the unofficial leader of the Anti Obama tea Party. Those where the Silent Majority who got President Trump Elected in 2016. She is a true Political Nova.

  30. As the loud, melodic poets known as Motley Crüe once said, “Girl don’t go away mad, Girl just go awaaaay yay yay……..”

  31. Someone should tell her they aren’t doing DEI hires anymore. 1 term mayor and only 2 years governor. Not that much experience. Her oil taxes raised record amounts of money that was just wasted. Half a billion to a pipeline company not to build a pipeline.

  32. She doesn’t actually want a job in Trump’s administration, like Michelle Obama she is too lazy to actually DO the job, she just wants the headlines that she GOT a job with Trump.

    She is an attention seeker, nothing more….

  33. My, my–what happened to my “sweet pretty?” She looks like she’s half a step away from entering the morgue! Look, there are plenty of beautiful women in the Republican party, so there’s no good reason to appoint her for anything but maybe an entry level domestic–you know, right there with the penniless no-counts!

  34. She usually screws up everything in which she is involved. Trump’s gatekeepers have this one right. Keep Palin away from the President. She is so delusional she will think she’s in charge. Good call Trump’s people. Looking for 15 minutes of fame again-DENIED!!

  35. Sarah’s infliction of Mary Peltola on Alaska due to Sarah’s self-absorbed and literally last-minute jump into the congressional race in 2022, knowingly splitting the vote with Nick Begich, an even encouraging her voters to choose MARY as their second ranked choice vote, sealed her political fate as far as I’m concerned.

  36. Sarah did not destroy the Alaskan oil Industry. The MARKET DID. Oil went from ___Round Numbers Here___$175 barrel of oil in early 2008, to $35 barrel in Dec. 2008. The BUSH Recession, nearly destroyed the Alaskan Oil Industry. It costs about $15 dollars to move 1 barrel of Oil from the North Slope to a West Coast Refinery. At $35 barrel minus $15, leaves you with $20 a barrel. Sarah didn’t do that.
    In the decade of 2006 to 2016 North Dakota Oil production went from 60, 000, to 600,000 barrels a year from F R A C K I NG. It only cost $3 a barrel to ship via pipeline from North Dakota to a Texas Refinery. Shara didn’t do this.

  37. It’s just a matter of time, she will get called eventually, it will obviously be related to alaska/ National energy, she knows where a lot of the bones are buried I’m sure, even if she just serves behind the scenes she could make a great contribution , oh yes and the haters will hate, but the haters are the people who always have nothing to contribute to anything, they always have opinions , but never have any answers , but unfortunately they love the role they take and it’s all about their inner self esteem, they lash out at others because they really hate themselves . So they hate anyone who appears to have a purpose. Jealousy and Low Self esteem is the solid trait of all the Palin Haters, Losers always hate winners, Palin has nothing to prove to any of them !!

  38. Oh, Sarah’s still out there making headlines, and I’m sure this article is pulling in those sweet, sweet clicks on MRA today. She really did put Alaska on the map—whether we like it or not. I mean, she was just a regular hockey mom who decided to take on the establishment and somehow became one of the most influential figures to come out of this state. She put us on the map, folks! Now, let’s sit back and watch if this year’s legislature can maybe get something done—after all, they’ve got the perfect opportunity to “Drill Baby Drill” with President Trump leading the way. As for the folks still whining about Sarah? Yeah, time to let that go. Let’s just sit back and see what kind of hope, if any, this dumpster fire of a legislature can scrape together, with all the inflated egos and bought-off lawmakers in the mix…

  39. You have got to be kidding. After.
    What she did to Begich in 22. Sadly or maybe not so sadly, she is a has been.

    • Can you please explain to me why– after beating Begich each and every time they went up against each other– Palin didn’t step aside for Begich? It doesn’t make any sense. Everyone knows that when one person gets more votes than the other person, the person who got more votes always steps aside. But not Palin. What could have possessed her?

  41. Once upon a time, Sarah was not so off the rails. However, once she stepped into the national spotlight, she turned instantly into a pod person. She spews nothing but knee jerk, vague politic speak.

    Sad from a former Governor who did champion the ACES tax code.

    • You may be forgetting her completely inept and embarrasingly unprepared performances in her debates with Frank Murkowski and Andrew Halcro back in 2006, when she was running for governor.

  42. She is not a conservative, she has never been a conservative. She brought us ACES tax. She devastated the oil industry for years. She backed Peltola. The list could go on and on. We are lucky she is gone and luckier, yet that it now seems she won’t be back.

  43. When Sarah supported the “Unity Ticket” of Walker/Mallot; she deserted Parnell and the Republicans. Remember it was Walker who unilaterally expanded Obamacare and set the precedent to ignore the PFD statutory formula. Remember it was Walker’s Chief if Staff, Scott Kendall, who orchestrated RCV in Alaska – a tool that was later used to elect Peltola with Palin’s help.
    In my view, these are political sins that you should not recover from – especially since she hasn’t even acknowledged them or apologized and asked for forgiveness.
    I only hope that it’s true that Trump really does have strong and thoughtful gatekeepers around to protect him from people like Palin. It seemed he was lacking this type of protection in his first term.

    • Lol…I think Trump 86ed her when she screeched for him at some rally…I can still see the “what the hell is that” look on his face! Poor Trump shouldn’t be saddled with her! Out to pasture you go Sarah!

  44. ““I know that there is that question out there as to why I’m not tapped into yet.”
    No, there really isn’t. Ms. Palin doesn’t realize yet that as far as MOST of us are concerned, she is tapped out!

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