The Emperor Has No Clothes
In the Hans Christian Andersen folktale, a vain, egotistical emperor who cared about nothing but his own appearance was duped into wearing a new suit of clothes professed by swindlers to be “invisible to anyone who was either unfit for his situation or else was intolerably stupid.” Of course, the emperor could not admit to being unfit, and neither could any of the yes-men surrounding him. No one dared to speak the truth —there were no checks and balances in the kingdom— and so its leader paraded naked.
Sound familiar? As of this writing, Donald Trump has named over 50 picks for critical cabinet posts and top White House positions—almost every single one of them a bootlicking loyalist, a yes-man unlikely to disagree with anything the President spouts.
