It's becoming clear that Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with sycophants who will protect him from being removed for incompetence, mental illness, corruption, being a traitor or for criminality.

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It's becoming clear that Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with sycophants who will protect him from being removed for incompetence, mental illness, corruption, being a traitor or for criminality.

The last three replacements he's made-- John Bolton replacing Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo replacing James Mattis as Secretary of Defense, and Ronnie Jackson as Secretary of Veterans affairs, replacing David Shulkin.

I'd say that with these three changes, he's completed the process of installing loyalists-- while at the same time downgrading the quality and competence of just about all of the people in the cabinet. Below, you'll find the listing of cabinet members. It still includes Tillerson and Mattis because they will soon be leaving.

I believe that this collection of cabinet members is the least loyal to America, most incompetent ever, in the history of the United States

Cabinet Office
(Constituting instrument) Incumbent Term began
Vice President
(Constitution, Art. II, Sec. I)
Mike Pence January 20, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson February 1, 2017
Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin February 13, 2017

Secretary of Defense James Mattis January 20, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions February 9, 2017
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke March 1, 2017
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue April 25, 2017
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross February 28, 2017
Secretary of LaborAlex Acosta April 28, 2017
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar January 29, 2018
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson March 2, 2017
Secretary of Transportation . Elaine Chao January 31, 2017
Secretary of Energy . Rick Perry March 2, 2017
Secretary of Education . Betsy DeVos February 7, 2017
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Ronny Jackson(nominee) TBD
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen December 6, 2017

For those who believe Trump is the savior of the US, cleaning out the swamp, confronting the "deep state" (a term created by right wingers to stoke paranoia among Trump supporters) I would argue that the people in his cabinet are protectors of the powers that be and the "system," other terms that also describe these secret powers that pull so many of the levers of power.

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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