Which apprentice is ‘fired’ next from Trump’s Cabinet?

Let’s face it. President Trump, at heart, is a reality TV star. He turned his proclivity for firing up-and-coming young professionals into a hit show, “The Apprentice.” His lack of empathy for the terminated apprentices, it turned out, presaged his performance in the Oval Office. 

Trump is not good at and has never accepted the mourner-in-chief role performed by President Bill Clinton, with his raspy voice and quivering lower lip. Quite the opposite. Trump’s crude and cruel social media post in the hours following the gruesome murder of Rob Reiner and his wife — allegedly and tragically by their own son — calls into question Trump’s own emotional stability.

In recent weeks, Trump has fired two high profile cabinet members. Both were highly accomplished women. 

Kristi Noem, a former member of Congress and governor of South Dakota, struck me as more interested in her public image than in actually managing the behemoth of the Department of Homeland Security. The massive department seemed like a good idea when former Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) teamed up to combine all agencies of the federal government that could make the homeland safe following the Sept. 11 2001, attack.

Noem would have benefited greatly from spending more time at her desk in Washington and less time chasing photo ops around the country and throughout Latin........

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