Welcome to the United States of Disruption. From his ‘Winter White House’ in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Donald Trump has been busy lobbing hand-grenade cabinet appointments in the direction of Washington and watching on happily as each one blows up in a variety of stunning ways. Explosiveness is the point.
‘Personnel is policy,’ Trump’s transition team like to tell reporters with a wink. What they mean is that the second administration is setting itself up to be even more radical and incendiary than the first. The outsiders are in, the insiders are out, and the old world is driving itself mad trying to figure out what’s going on.
It’s a mistake to interpret too much method in Trump’s improvisational madness
Last week, the President-elect announced that he had chosen Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard as director of intelligence, Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of health and human services and Kristi Noem as head of homeland security.
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