A few friends had expressed surprise over Trump’s nominees for top positions in his incoming administration. Quite frankly, I was a bit surprised too; even for Trump, some of the nominees are quite out there! But then I came across this piece in which Don Jr announces his heavy involvement “on” the transition, and expresses his infinite wisdom on the qualifications of the nominees:

I’m going to be heavily involved on the transition. I want to make sure now that we know who the real players are, the people who will actually deliver on the president’s message, the people who don’t think that they know better than the duly elected president of the United States,

(emphasis added by me). And now I understand. One should not blame the transition team for the mediocre nominees; after all, with such a strict constraint on their qualifications, it is an awfully difficult task to find people who meet the requirements.