Donald Trump has made almost nothing but dubious personnel choices for his administration, but today's announcement went beyond ludicrous and straight into crazy territory. To run the New York federal housing programme, overseeing the distribution of billions of dollars in grants and subsidies, he picked Lynne Patton, Eric Trump's wedding planner and the organiser of some golf tournaments for the Trump family business. She appears to have no relevant experience whatsoever in property administration or construction planning. She previously had a job at the equally incompetent Ben Carson's HUD department.
Picking someone so ridiculously unqualified for this job is either crazy, a sign of unprecedented nepotism, or a desperate choice because nobody else wants to work for Donald Trump. Either way, the choice is deeply unsettling.
