Stripey Here is some political discourse for you.
Betsy DeVos to be appointed as secretary of education. A woman who was not educated in public schools, whose children were not educated in public schools, who destroyed the school system in Detroit, who has no background in education, who has tens of millions in private charter schools and who wants tax payer money handed over to for-profit charter school companies on a nationwide basis. The Corinthian and ITT scandals have shown there is insufficient oversight of the private education system in the US yet she wants to fling billions of tax payer dollars into the black hole of private education. Not only is she unqualified she is too incompetent to have a vision of what a good public education system should be or to form a plan to improve things. She merely wants to shirk her responsibilities by paying her friends to do her job for her. As a finishing touch my 14 year old did a better job at answering the questions on standardized testing than she did, and apparently she thinks schools should have guns on site in case of invasion by grizzly bears.
Puzder, former CEO of Hardee's/Carl's Jnr. a company notorious for its franchisees not paying wages and overtime to employees. Either he doesn't care about that or he is too incompetent to adequately police the people carrying his company's name - terrible qualities to have in the new Head of the Department of Labor. He also wants to severely restrict changes to the minimum wage.
Pruitt - A lawyer who has repeatedly sued the EPA is now in charge of the EPA. He wishes to reduce federal oversight on environmental protection.
Trump has already made changes that will cost low income home buyers $500 a year in insurance charges.
Trump has stated, on record, that he is going to get jobs back into the US by cutting 75% of the regulations on businesses. Given that most business regulation concerns fair treatment of employees, employee safety, and environmental protection you can imagine what these new jobs will be like - unsafe, under paid, with long term health effects due to pollution and exposure to unhealthy working conditions.
Trump flat out lied about the number of people at his inauguration. That he is willing to lie about such a stupid thing says a lot about his ethical values, his low opinion of the intelligence of the American people, and his compulsive need to be 'the best' no matter what. The attendance at his celebration was comparable to that of most other presidents (with the exception of President Obama's first inauguration). There was no need to lie to make himself look good, he already looked good.
A son in law appointed as a 'special advisor', being in charge of the GSA - the landlord for his new flagship hotel, claiming that he will get out of all foreign deals while dramatically expanding his new golf course in Scotland and having an Asian business partner at his inauguration ball who stated he was there because he wanted a business relationship with the new President, government employees instructed to not talk to each other directly and not to talk to the press - tactics similar to those used by President Erdogan.
Trump's ethics are so screwed up he doesn't know he's being unethical. He thinks that whatever he does is OK purely because he is doing it. That appointing a bunch of incompetent, inexperienced, unethical people to his cabinet is fine because as they know him personally that makes them 'the best'.