Bit too much ‘acting’

T-Rump has fewer Senate-confirmed officials in his White House than … well, most any previous president. When asked about this obvious deficiency, especially in his Cabinet, he dismisses the question with an enthusiastic, if not predictable, response: “I like ‘acting.’ It gives me more flexibility.”

Emphasis on the word “me.” An acting official has little to no decision-making authority and is obliged to rely on the “Decider-in-Chief” who famously asserted that he alone can fix Washington. So that’s where we are. T-Rump is the de facto head of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Small Business Administration, the Office of Management and Budget; in addition, his chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, currently serves in an acting capacity. And there’s more.

A man with no government experience and with no idea of how to manage large groups of people is in charge. He has the added history of business ventures that were apparently inspired by the Beatles’ hit song, “I’m a Loser.” His titanic business failures were record-setting in themselves. If being a business failure was an Olympic sport, then raise the American flag and key up the Star Spangled Banner for our gold medal winner.

In the word of a former secretary of state, chief of staff, as well as his current national security adviser, just to mention a few, T-Rump is a “moron.” Relying on acting secretaries as standins, T-Rump has assembled an ignominious coterie of “proxy morons.”

Geez. America needs a president who is really surrounded by “the best people,” willing to serve and confirmable.

HARRY HERGET Little Rock