Would you be surprised if the new manager at Tehran Football Club was a woman? Possibly a gay woman?? How about if the new driver announced by McLaren’s F1 team was a man blind from birth? What about appointing Gary Glitter as the headteacher at your local Primary School?

All pretty funny/sad/impossible/tragic.And yet that is precisely what Donald Trump is doing with his government appointees. He is consistently finding the candidate most unsuitable for any position, and installing them in it.

Let’s take the Attorney General of all America. The top legal person in the country. Maybe Trump wanted someone with empathy for the criminal mind when he appointed Matt Gaetz to the role. Maybe he just thought that the best man for any job is a kiddy fiddler with a drug problem. Who knows what Donald Trump is thinking at any time? And I include Donald Trump in that. Ok, Gaetz is has shown a loyalty to Don greater than any of the Trump family ever have, certainly more than all his ex-wives, and mistresses, I get that. So when the papers relating to Trump’s criminal cases all fall into the AG’s inbox, how good that the Prez has arranged for that inbox to belong to a great mate who can ‘make it all just go away’.

And even funnier appointment, as long as you don’t live in America, is that of ‘Minister for Health’. Because Robert F Kennedy Jnr is the last person you’d want anywhere near you if you were sick or injured. Or if you have children. Elderly relatives.

Because Kennedy is a nut-job of the first stripe. A champion of ‘anti-vaxers’ for any particular ‘vax’ you can think of, or those yet to be developed. He would rather your children died of measles, hooping cough or polio than risk the ‘autism’ which has been proved a totally fake claim, that might follow a vaccination. He’s a conspiracy theorist and an absolute master of fake news and disinformation. He’s even a ‘fake Kennedy’ as they’ve always been staunch democrats, and here’s RFK painted all red from his fake tan to his MAGA cap. But health minister? Really???

Its like appointing Ozzie Osbourne as the new Pope.

Happy Friday

A xxxx