Since earning the presidential nod, Donald Trump has worked rapidly to assemble his cabinet. Thus, it’s no surprise that many of his picks have been contentious and quite comical.
The most sensible of them all is Marco Rubio as secretary of state. Although Rubio was Trump’s biggest competition for the 2016 GOP nomination, his views align with the president-elect’s.
Rubio’s experience in the Senate, his track record of being relatively moderate as well as having been cordial with Democrats made him one of Trump’s better picks. That said, Rubio will be a Trump pawn — he has looked to be just that since losing to Trump in 2016.
Unfortunately, not all picks were as rational as Rubio. The hill is steep downwards from here.
Pete Hegseth, a current commentator at Fox & Friends, was picked for secretary of defense. Hegseth has never held political office.
Additionally, as a member of the National Guard in 2021, Hegseth was flagged as an “Insider Threat” during President Joe Biden’s inauguration and forced not to serve during the ceremony. The flagging came through tattoos that resembled white supremacist symbolism.
Another notable nomination is Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and former Governor of Arkansas. He will serve as Trump’s ambassador to Israel. Devoutly conservative and Christian, Huckabee is completely against a two-state solution in the Israel-Gaza conflict. He has been quoted claiming, “There’s really no such thing as Palestine,” and that Israel has every right to occupy the West Bank as its own.
Matt Gaetz will be nominated for the United States Attorney General. Oh, boy. The man who will oversee the American justice system was once the subject of a sexual trafficking investigation by the department he will now run. What better way to avoid the law than to run it?
Lastly, who is the new secretary of Health and Human Services? It’s a former heroin addict, vaccine disbeliever and a man with no medical qualifications at all. He is an environmental lawyer notorious for dumping dead animals in parks: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This is Trump’s cabinet. It sounds like something out of a South Park episode — only, this is not a comedy. This is our government.
