Surprise: Trump's newest Cabinet nominee has no relevant experience

[DonViejo]

By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer March 29 at 7:29 PM

You can’t make this stuff up: President Trump has announced he will nominate a medical doctor who has no discernible management experience to run the second-largest agency in the federal government. Can presidents be sued for malpractice?

The man Trump has named to become secretary of veterans affairs, Ronny L. Jackson , happens to be the president’s personal doctor. More to the point, given Trump’s perpetual hunger for sycophancy, is the fact that Jackson showered the president with hyperbolic Dear-Leader-style praise during a widely viewed television appearance in January.

Trump has “incredibly good genes,” the White House physician said in describing a examination he had given the president. Trump’s overall health is “excellent.” His “cardiac assessment” put him “in the excellent range.” If his diet were a bit better, “he might live to be 200 years old.” In any event, “I think he will remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even for the remainder of another term if he’s elected.”

That is an unusual way to describe a 71-year-old man whose height was reported as a generous 6 feet 3 inches , and weight at an eyebrow-raising 239 pounds, which classifies him as overweight — but conveniently one pound short of obese. Jackson’s are odd words characterizing a man whose cheeseburger-laden diet my doctor would describe as suicidal and whose coronary calcium scan results, according to many other physicians, indicate some degree of heart disease and a clearly elevated risk of heart attack.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. No surprise when you consider the goal is the destruction of the agency...

[Arkansas Granny]

2. "No relevant experience" seems to be what Trump looks for in his Cabinet members.

[Generic Brad]

3. An honest man would decline the nomination because he is unqualified

But Dr. Jackson has already demonstrated that he is not an honest man.

[duforsure]

4. Everyone should be outraged

Especially all Vets. This is another ploy by trump to destroy all your services , and this department, just like he's doing to health care, schools, and everything else they can get their greedy mitts on. All vets should be upset what he's doing against them now. Also he's already screwing with Social Security. Vote, while we can. Also the ADA act putting more previous service members out of work so they can fire disabled workers with. He's not for our service people, and again using bait and switch tactics to make some believe he is.

[Bayard]

5. Prediction

He will be proven unqualified in short order, and also fired.

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