SLATE article: "Mr. Unpredictable and Friends"
Excerpt: Trump’s lack of policy experience makes it unlikely he’ll be able to settle policy disputes with his Cabinet secretaries.
If you saw the movie "Backdraft" that's what came to mind after reading this piece.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/12/trump_s_inexperience_and_a_squabbling_cabinet_could_leave_u_s_foreign_policy.html
(snip) Trump’s secretaries have no allegiances to the departments they’ll be running. (His pick as secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has contempt for the Foggy Bottom pinstripes who tried to block his grand schemes as Exxon Mobil’s CEO.) Global moguls, three- and four-star generals, hedge-fund billionaires—quite apart from their respective merits or lack thereof, these personality types are not accustomed to deference on matters in which they have strong interest or the slightest pretense of knowledge.
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