Trump's Clown Cabinet

When Trump started making appointments for his second administration, I started breathing sighs of relief.  He made Susie Wiles his White House chief of staff, followed by his appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.  So far, so good.  More recently, there was the appointment Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior.  Okay, that makes sense - he's the governor of North Dakota, he's dealt with land-use issues, and the Interior Department deals with resource management.

Then came the flooding of the zone.

Trump appointed Pete Hegseth - a Fox News "journalist" with no experience in administrating - Secretary of Defense.

Hegseth is a combat veteran and an a National Guard officer.  Appointing Hegseth to lead the Pentagon would be like appointing the head teller of a bank branch as Secretary of the Treasury.  Oh, great, I might have just given Trump an idea!

One fear is that Trump would nominate Mike Davis to be Attorney General.  Davis is a combative lawyer who has verbally threatened New York State Attorney General Letitia James not go continue to investigate Trump further or the administration will "put her fat ass" in prison.

Instead, Trump named Matt Gaetz Attorney General. 

Gaetz is known for credible accusations against him for having sex with minors, and he's a lawyer who never had a case.  He's also never run anything larger than his own House of Representatives office.

And I'm so supposed to be happy that the Attorney General-designate is not Mike Davis? 

Meanwhile, a son of a former Attorney General is on tap to be Secretary of Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  An environmental lawyer who would be more useful heading the Environmental Protection Agency, Kennedy is a vaccine skeptic and a conspiracy theorist who thinks he can make Americans healthier with home remedies involving chicken broth, honey, and a calf-liver compress or two - and he apparently believes that the best way to immunize Americans from the measles or the mumps is to have everyone catch them to develop herd immunity.

Kennedy is accused of having no experience with pharmaceuticals.  Not true - he's a former heroin addict!

You're going to need a shot of smack to endure Tulsi Gabbard, who's known for talking smack about American policy in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's good intentions, in her new role as Director of National Intelligence!

A former congresswoman from Hawaii who was once a progressive and has no experience in intelligence and espionage - except for maybe having watched a James Bond movie or two - Gabbard, who's more of a Bond girl than Bond (yes, I said that), is a woman of Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage, suggesting that she would be Trump's token DEI pick.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Cabinet of Trump Mark Two!

Second verse, same as the first.