Trumps Cabinet So Far Is More White and Male Than Any First Cabinet Since Reagans

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet is shaping up to have a smaller percentage of women and nonwhites than the first cabinets of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George Bush.

If Mr. Trump’s nominees are confirmed, women and nonwhites will hold five of 21 cabinet or cabinet-level positions. He has not yet named nominees for two additional positions.

“Donald Trump is rolling back the clock on diversity in the cabinet,” said Paul Light, a professor at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.



Those five members will also be in some of the lowest-ranking positions. None of them are in the so-called inner cabinet, the four positions in place since George Washington’s presidency: the attorney general and the secretaries of state, Treasury and defense (formerly called the secretary of war).

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/13/us/politics/trump-cabinet-women-minorities.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

[HughBeaumont]

1. And infinitely more right wing than any past cabinet.

Let's not forget that. This bunch makes even the Dubya cabinet look moderate by comparison.

[procon]

2. Can we add that they are much wealthier, too? nt