>>507745550Why not both? He's not exactly choosing his cabinet based on merit. He chose each and every one of them based on having sufficient irrelevance and incompetence to be completely loyal to him -- in other words, he chose people whose only relevance comes directly from Trump. The Senate abdicated its responsibilities. Per Hamilton:
>He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure. The Senate's job was to provoke this shame and fear in Trump. Instead, they confirmed a cabinet full of "obsequious instruments of his pleasure." The Framers foresaw all of this.