Politics –
Trump Cabinet Picks Are
Grossly Underqualified

What in the hell is Donald Trump doing?  Or, to be more specific, who told Donald that assembling a Trump cabinet is as easy as throwing together a few haphazard and mismatched pieces on the fly??

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Would you ask your local butcher to perform your brain surgery? Would you ask a blind man to drive your children’s school bus? Of course not! However, it seems as if Donald Trump would. He continues to prove it by making cabinet picks that are tantamount to shoving a square peg into a round hole.

Oh, Donald — selecting a Trump cabinet to run the U.S. government should not be the equivalent of selecting the QuickPick numbers in the Mega-Millions lotto.  Yet, that is exactly what Trump is doing.

Let’s take a look at some of his most controversial choices:

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Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson, 65

Dr. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former rival to Trump for the Republican presidential nomination is not only one of the most respected surgeons of our generation, but the only African-American named to Trump’s cabinet. However, what does a brain surgeon know about housing and developing America’s urban areas? He knows how to run an operating room, but what he doesn’t know is how to run a bureaucratic government agency with hundreds of employees who will be expecting him to lead. Dr. Carson is a religious conservative with no experience in elective office, who grew up poor in Detroit. However, NONE of this qualifies him to turn around America’s troubled inner cities.

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Energy: Rick Perry, 66

He’s the former governor of the State of Texas and a former contestant on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.” However, Rick Perry’s knowledge of energy apparently goes about as far as knowing the difference between battery and plug-in power. During a November of 2011 debate, Perry boasted that, as president, he would eliminate 3 government agencies. After naming 2, Perry was unable to name the 3rd on his hit list. Interestingly, the agency he wanted to cut but couldn’t even remember the name of was — you guessed it — the Department of Energy.

As Secretary of Energy, Perry will be charged with protecting our existing energy sources while developing new ones, such as wind and solar. How can he seriously make a difference when he considers the agency so irrelevant, he can’t even remember its name?

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Ambassador to the United Nations: Nikki Haley, 44

As South Carolina’s governor, Nikki Haley rose to prominence by leading the effort to pull the divisive Confederate flag from the state’s capitol following a 2015 massacre at a historic black church in Charleston. She’s also the daughter of Indian immigrants and was sharply critical of Trump during the election campaign. However, her knowledge of foreign policy is about as equal to her knowledge of quantum physics. In other words, she should be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations about as much as she should be the pilot on the space shuttle.

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Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson, 64

Rex Tillerson is the current CEO of Exxon Mobile. He is also a close friend and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom all 16 U.S. National Security agencies say hacked the 2016 presidential election. Apparently for Donald Trump, that is the perfect experience necessary to be America’s TOP diplomat to the world. How much foreign policy knowledge and experience does Tillerson have? ZERO! Absolutely none! However, if Trump can become the Commander-In-Chief with no knowledge of what the job actually entails and no desire to even receive national security briefings, Tillerson fits very well beneath the very low bar and example Trump has already set. In fact, he should feel right at home among the “We have NO idea what we’re doing” trio of Trump, Haley, and Tillerson.

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Granted, Carson, Perry, Haley, and Tillerson are all very smart people. However, in keeping with the current slang saying “stay in your lane,” if you stepped onto a Boeing 747 and realized these were the names who would be flying your plane for the day, would you trust that flight? Or would you run the hell out of there?

Welcome to your new pilots, America. THIS is the Trump cabinet he considers the best of America. THIS who will be in charge of “flying” the country!

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