Fox News said it, so it must be true. Right?

It was said by the slick-haired talker on a roundtable chat show that hurls smarmy insults at Democrats, college grads, educators, and most other folks. You know him, he was the guy promoted to first-string evening duties when the other stars flamed out; one was fired after he cost the network some $787.5 million for parroting a bald-faced lie about crooked voting machines that he claimed cost Grandpa Don the 2020 election.

Well, the other night, I nearly fell out of my easy chair when this slick-haired guy opened his show by saying Grandpa Don’s new cabinet members are his way of giving the finger to the establishment. Then on Sunday, Reince Priebus, a former GOP chair, said the incoming president was giving us the finger, too.

Well, DJT told us this was what he was going to do. Did you not hear him when he said he would get even with a government he thought had done him wrong? “I am your retribution,” he said. During his first term, Grandpa Don claimed he was stifled and disrespected by his departments of defense, intelligence, and health.

So to get even, he names a second-string Fox anchor to head the defense department, names a vaccine skeptic, the guy who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park, to run the dozen-plus health agencies. And, he names a guy to oversee the Justice Department whose main accomplishment was blowing up the GOP House leadership.

Dear reader. What did you think he would do? Did you think he would lure Dr. Anthony Fauci out of retirement to run HHS? Did you think he was going to name Jack Smith to run Main Justice? Did you think he was going to beg John Brennan, Bob Gates, or Maine’s Bill Cohen to run the CIA?

But, Heavens to Myrgatrouyd, didn’t anyone check out the possible nominees before going public? Or, is Grandpa Don just winging it, like he does when speaking for hours off the cuff? Didn’t anybody step up and say, "Hey boss, we might have a problem?" Or is he running a show where it is curtains for a staffer to interrupt him and suggest he might be a bit off base?

How long do you think it will take for the top-secret House ethics report on the DOJ nominee to leak out? Sen. Susan Collins says it will become part of his confirmation process. Might it cause a problem? And there is the small matter of a hush, hush, non-disclosure agreement settling a sex crime allegation hanging over the head of the guy tapped to oversee millions of uniformed patriots and beaucoup billions of taxpayer bucks. Another problem?

If you don’t check and double-check before you name someone to a major job, you might find out you have created a problem you might have avoided. So far, the smartest appointment was to make his lawyer the number two at Justice. It was a move out of the playbook from George Washington Plunkitt, the sage of NYC’s Tammany Hall political gang of thieves. If you put your lawyer on the possible prosecution team, you are usually in pretty good shape for anything that might come down the pike.

Other than revenge, how would any of those nominees, none of whom has even run a lobster shack, be qualified to run anything? Is he acting like the guy who chose the high school class clown to deliver the graduation speech? No, he is naming the class clown to be the superintendent of the school district because he wants to get back at the lunch lady who once served him cold slimy tacos.

Look, no one is going to take my suggestions to heart. When you are old, no one pays you any attention. In many ways, you are invisible to most people, unless you do something unusual like stumbling over your syntax in a national TV debate.

Grandpa Don is going to be president again. I am a proud American and want the president to succeed. But, I know the world is a tough place, with lots of bad guys waiting to give Uncle Sam a kidney punch and knock him, and us, under the Resolute Desk. And some of their kicks might be followed by great big nukes that go boom. We need a guy in the Oval Office to take the job seriously and at least check some of these nominees out before sending the nation into a tizzy.

So far, he has sent us class clowns who rank South of Larry, Curley and Moe.