During the campaign, you may recall Donald Trump waxing on interminably during "the weave" about the time he watched Elon Musk's picture-perfect spacecraft landings. He would say, "Elon with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they want it to land..." Trump traveled to Texas yesterday with his best friend Musk to observe the latest Starship SpaceX test of one of those perfect landings. He and the rest of his entourage watched as the spacecraft aborted its second attempt to catch the returning booster at its launchpad and splashed into the Gulf of Mexico instead.

We're all hoping it's a metaphor for Trump's second administration: lots of hype but just can't stick the landing.

But for all the kooks Trump is appointing to some of the top jobs to accomplish his revenge agenda, there are some areas where he's stocking the administration with some people who are determined to fulfill their own.

It's certainly possible. Virtually none of the people the president-elect is choosing to lead the various departments have any qualifications for the jobs he's putting them into and little or no management experience of any kind. He's generally named people he's seen on TV, which I suppose makes sense since that was his only qualification for the presidency and in his mind he's the greatest leader the world has ever known. What other qualifications do you really need?

On Tuesday he even chose another reality show veteran, Fox Business host and former congressman Sean Duffy as Secretary of Transportation. Duffy was on MTV's "The Real World: Boston." Trump also tapped TV talk show host Dr. Oz to head up the CMS which administers Medicare and........

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