In two hours flat
Sometimes speed is not the goal. Sometimes it’s downright dangerous. That’s why speed limits exist.
President-elect Trump has set a modern record for staffing his government, with 12 Cabinet-level appointments in the 12 days since the election.
That’s five times faster than President Biden made the same number of picks for his administration — and four times faster than Trump’s pick for his first administration, according to calculations for Axios by David Marchick, dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University and an expert on presidential transitions.
And it’s confirmation that he’s a reckless brainless wrecking ball.
Trump either “has the best and most efficient transition ever,” Marchick said, or “is blowing up all norms and making picks on the fly without vetting, research or Senate consultations.”
And it could not be more obvious which explanation is the right one.
I don’t understand why US Presidents are so slow in making their appointments. Twelve picks in twelve days is a snail’s pace compared to the speed at which a British government is assembled – as I understand it the Congressional hearings come later. Incoming British Prime Ministers generally install their entire cabinet within a day or at most two.