Trumpworld's Least Favorite Cabinet Secretaries

One Trump advisor would not corroborate that their ranking of Bondi stemmed from her handling of nan Epstein files. This advisor declined to reply follow-up questions astir Bondi because Epstein was not thing they were consenting to talk complete text. Instead, they replied pinch nan flush-faced emoji (😳) and shared their list:

“Worst, Bondi,” they begin. “2/ Bondi. 3/ Bondi. 4/ Bondi. 5/ HegsethRFKTulsiNoem.”

The bundled prime for number 5 elucidated thing other I’ve been picking up connected lately: This clip around, nan evident incompetence of galore apical officials really useful to support immoderate sustained unit disconnected of immoderate 1 furniture caput aliases agency head. It ends up moving successful everyone’s liking if location are aggregate dumpster fires going astatine once, alternatively than 1 large one.

Kristi Noem, nan caput of homeland information who oversees ICE—or at slightest plays nan role connected TV—has not escaped notice, either. The president’s “biggest vulnerabilities are Lutnick and Noem, followed by RFK,” a elder management charismatic tells me, without elucidating why.

Under Noem’s tenure moving DHS, Trump’s polling numbers connected immigration, erstwhile 1 of his strengths, person plummeted, pinch much than half of those polled saying he has gone excessively far, according to nan latest New York Times/Siena poll.

Then there’s wellness caput Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who precocious made an announcement pinch nan president astir an unproven nexus betwixt nan progressive constituent successful Tylenol and autism spectrum disorders. (That’s nan 1 which resulted successful nan iconic Trump quote, "Nothing bad tin happen, it tin only bully happen.”)

Another Trump advisor described nan furniture basking spot arsenic “a perpetually moving target,” but they were assured pinch Lutnick astatine number one, and head of nationalist intelligence Tulsi Gabbard astatine number two.

Gabbard’s bully will has ebbed and flowed, a 3rd Trump advisor said. She had been connected shakier crushed successful nan early months of nan administration, they said, but nan president is “over nan satellite pinch Tulsi” because of really she’s handled nan merchandise of various declassified materials. In respective cases, Gabbard has rolled retired worldly that was already successful nan nationalist domain aliases not antecedently digitized. Earlier this year, she released tens of thousands of pages connected nan assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Sr., and Martin Luther King Jr. These releases, however, lacked immoderate awesome revelations, arsenic did her selective declassifications of documents astir nan root of nan investigation into Russian meddling successful nan 2016 statesmanlike election.