Trump Team Update -- 4-out-of-25 Get Passing Grades

Good News: Suicide Pact
Bad News: Even More 'F's, 'D's than Before

Our Bumbler 45000, with its data crunching power on 'next level', has broken out a new scoresheet for Trump's key appointments.

Vice President: Mike Pence  -- F+
Chief of Staff: John F. Kelly -- B-
Chief Strategist: vacant
State: Rex Tillerson -- C-
Treasury: Steven Mnuchin - a Democrat, corporate variety: D+
Defense: James Mattis - Thinking man's advisor; though civilian control of defense is best: B+
National Security Advisor: H. R. McMaster - Another independent thinker; also military brass: B-
Attorney General: Jeff Sessions: F
Interior: Ryan Zinke -  F+
Agriculture: Sonny Perdue: D+
Commerce: Wilbur Ross: D-
Labor: Alex Acosta (nominated): C-
Health and Human Services: vacant
Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson: F
Transportation: Elaine Chao - former Sec. of Treasury: C-
Energy: Rick Perry: F-
Education: Betsy DeVoss: F-
Veterans: David Shulkin - Able administrator with no axe to grind: A-
Homeland Security: vacant
UN Ambassador: Nikki Haley - former Governor: C-
Budget: Mick Mulvaney - D
CIA: Mike Pompeo - knowledgeable, no torture: C-
Environment: Scott Pruitt: F-
Legal Counsel: Donald McGahn: D
Press: Sarah Huckabee-Sanders: D-

Women are way underrepresented in the above list (4 out of 25), as are other obvious categories (only one black American, one Latino, one Asian-American...hmmm, tokenism?

The easiest way forward is canning the worst, and bringing in a good choice, as was done with the shockingly unfit Michael Flynn at National Security Advisor, and the only slightly less wrong-headed Steve Bannon as Chief Strategist, not to mention Preibus as Chief-of-Staff, Price as H&HS, etc.  Characters doing the most damage: Sessions, Perry and Pruitt (for example, see this brutal take-down of Perry's override of his department's policy analysis).

Just 4 of 25 receive a C or better, down from 10 last time, and they are all, or mostly, part of a suicide pact that has reportedly agreed to resign en masse if any one of them is ousted!  Some are probably sticking with it to provide adult supervision.