"The bundled choice for number five elucidated something else I've been picking up on lately: This time around, the obvious incompetence of many top officials actually works to keep any sustained pressure off of any one cabinet secretary or agency head. It ends up working in everyone's interest if there are multiple dumpster fires going at once, rather than one big one."
"Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security who oversees ICE-or at least plays the role on TV-has not escaped notice, either. The president's "biggest vulnerabilities are Lutnick and Noem, followed by RFK," a senior administration official tells me, without elucidating why. Under Noem's tenure running DHS, Trump's polling numbers on immigration, once one of his strengths, have plummeted, with more than half of those polled saying he has gone too far, according to the latest New York Times/Siena poll."
An adviser repeatedly named Bondi as the worst, listing her in multiple top positions. One adviser refused to discuss Epstein over text, replying with the flush-faced emoji and sharing a ranking that emphasized Bondi's prominence. The prevalence of multiple high-profile failures reduces sustained pressure on any single cabinet secretary or agency head, benefiting officials collectively. Kristi Noem, overseeing ICE and serving as DHS secretary on television, has become a vulnerability as immigration polling has fallen. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced an unproven Tylenol-autism link alongside the president. Lutnick and Tulsi Gabbard also appear as top vulnerabilities in internal rankings.
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