Quick Analysis of the Trump Cabinet

Posted on January 10, 2017 | 

Jeff Sessions (Attorney General) – close association of white nationalists and opponent of birthright citizenship, denounced by Coretta Scott King for being racist, lover of the CIA and mass surveillance.
Wilbur Ross (Secretary of Commerce) – billionaire monopolist Trump donor who drew criticism for safety failures after an explosion killed 12 workers at a coal mine owned by his company.
Ben Carson (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development) – retired creationist surgeon who admits himself he isn’t qualified to be in the Cabinet.
James Mattis (Secretary of Defense) – an extreme warhawk removed from command in 2013 for his hardline behavior.
Ryan Zinke (Secretary of the Interior) – freshman Congressman with an anti-environment record who doesn’t believe in climate change.
Betsy DeVos (Secretary of Education) – billionaire heiress anti-public school crusader who favors unregulated charter schools.
Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State) – ExxonMobil executive with no experience in the public sector.
Steve Mnuchin (Treasury Secretary) – a hedge-fund manager and one of the chief architects of the financial crisis, became infamous for his bank’s cruel foreclosure practices.
Elaine Chao (Secretary of Transportation) – former head of the Bush Administration Labor Department that was investigated and found to regularly fail to protect the rights of low-wage workers.
Andy Puzder (Secretary of Labor) – a fast-food CEO who opposes minimum wage increases and worker protections; one remarked that machines don’t need days off, sick days, or maternity leave and don’t file lawsuits.
John Kelly (Secretary of Homeland Security) – retired general and immigration hardliner who favors mass deportations and ICE raids.
Tom Price (Secretary of Health and Human Services) – staunch opponent of women’s rights and access to contraception who supports cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and has already tried to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
Rick Perry (Secretary of Energy) – former Governor of Texas and climate change denier who wants to eliminate his own department completely.
Scott Pruitt (EPA Administrator) – former Oklahoma Attorney General and climate change denier who sued the EPA to roll back its efforts for clean water and clean air and tackle climate change.

Stephen Bannon (Chief Strategist) – alt-right former banker and self-proclaimed white supremacist, former chief executive editor of the far-right Breitbart News.