The list of people with tainted histories to serve the Trump administration’s key portfolios is increasing by the day. Some of them were accused of rioting during the Capitol Hill protests, some ferrying young girls for sex, and yet another an immigrant harbouring a hateful attitude towards communism. One of them is seen as friends of an enemy country as she is accused of having her thoughts aligned with that of the adversary. Additionally, there is another Trump's pick, who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman, and then paying her money for the settlement.
As people at the helm of affairs say, Trump’s spontaneous decisions to nominate people for various positions in his upcoming government will only ‘endanger fear’. They attribute this phrase to tainted ones and believe their appointment will embolden people to commit more wrongs in areas they were accused of and got off scot-free.
Be it child trafficking or spreading lies, both have a strong bearing on the nation. False information will possibly overwhelm the media landscape with misinformation and will appear as an agreed reality among the communication professionals. When you have glorified lawyers, pampered sexual abusers, celebrated hate mongers, and loyalists of adversaries running the government, there is a great possibility of getting the foundation of a nation like America shaken. Processes are likely to take a back seat and the resultant chaos becomes the new order.
Stephen K. Bannon (Steve Bannon), who was convicted in the Capitol Hill riots case and spent four months in jail, was released well before the recent presidential elections, and campaigned for Trump in his popular podcast ‘War Room’. Bannon is a podcaster, and Time magazine once ran a story mentioning him as the ‘second most powerful man in the world.’ Bannon is a talented podcaster, studied from Harvard, served in the American Navy for a few years, and was accused of spreading misinformation. Brookings Institute in their research documents note that the Bannon Show was blatantly lying to mislead people. Guests in the show would display their skills of presenting facts that never existed. Bannon is not the only one in this race, there are others whose follies have also granted them space in Trump’s cabinet. You need to have intuition, calculation or both to be in Trump's team. While skill is optional, smartness is mandatory.
Leaders run their businesses using what they call 'skilled intuitions and algorithms.' Decisions made based on unskilled intuitions will bring undesired results. Trump installing loyalists as his lieutenants in the government without skills will possibly disrupt the normalcy in the ranks as people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is going to lead the health department when he showed scepticism about vaccines. He has no health experience; instead, he showed contempt for evidence-based medicine when the whole world was running for medical help, during the COVID-19 pandemic.