Casting the Cabinet

“People who are casually following the recent announcements from President-elect Donald Trump about how he intends to staff the upper ranks of the executive branch could be forgiven for thinking they were reading about a beauty contest, not political appointments,” the New York Times reports.

“If, during his first administration, Mr. Trump boasted of his generals from ‘central casting,’ now, it seems, he has applied the same principle to the whole shebang.”