When I see the astounding incompetence of the daily news makers in President Donald Trump’s cabinet, people such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others, I am reminded of the maxim that a second-rate leader chooses third-rate staff.
To call our current president second-rate, however, is much too generous. He strikes me more as the ringmaster of a circus from Hades. And the “performances” in this circus feature sabotaging health care, creating a nascent police state, trying to resurrect the Confederacy, giving industrial polluters free rein and so much more.
JOE BARBARA
Metairie