Matt Gaetz running the justice department. Fox hosts in charge of the Pentagon and transportation. Elon Musk as head of layoffs. And Robert F Kennedy Jr and Dr Oz overseeing the nationās health.
Some have likened Donald Trumpās administrative picks to a clown car; others are calling our incoming leadership a kakistocracy, or āgovernment by the worst peopleā, as Merriam-Webster puts it.
The word has been trending online, with a burst in search traffic in recent weeks and a new dedicated subreddit. Itās not the first time Trump has (accidentally) made the term famous; many discovered it in his first term. But the kakistocracy of 2016 looks like Mister Rogersā Neighborhood compared with the president-electās new batch of sidekicks.
Heās left behind even the pretense of having people who know things in office. Now itās just bootlickers who have been on TV, and the occasional particularly toadycore politician.
Yup. He knows how to sell shit to gullible rubes. Heās a dumb fuck otherwise, but the man has an uncanny genius when it comes to self promotion.