The alarming security breach by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth revealing war plans just demonstrates what everyone who isn’t a Trump acolyte has known for a long time. Trump’s picks to run our top government departments are incompetent, reckless, and ignorant about what is needed to do the jo b. Blind fealty to the president is not a qualification to lead the nation’s most important offices. Bob Horvath, Long Beach Related Articles Letter: Katie Porter is definitely the wrong person to lead California Letter: Newsom can’t handle the state of California, he will do a disastrous job running the country Letter: DOGE is delivering needed shock treatment to the bloated administrative state Letter: The folly of Trump’s tariffs Letter: Both parties have abused and misused executive powers ...read more read less