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In case you haven’t noticed a bunch Republicans running around with their hair on fire, here’s what’s been happening with President-Elect Donald Trump’s transition, one week after his election: utter and total f—king chaos. For those of us paying attention to his quixotic and destructive campaign, it’s no surprise. So why are GOPers acting so surprised? I don’t know. Maybe they’re only now realizing that electing a pants-sh-tting temperamental toddler to the highest office in the land was a bad idea. There are about a million stories of how badly Trump’s transition has gone thus far (Week 1, remember), but Vanity Fair has a good summary here. Some highlights:

Chris Christie has been pushed out. That happened last week. Christie was head of the transition team, and Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law) had Christie demoted, because Kushner has always hated Christie. Mike Pence was brought in to head the transition team, except that it seems like Pence’s first order of business was literally burning everything to the ground – Christie had already spent months creating hundreds of shortlists for the 4,000 positions Trump will have to fill, and Pence, it seems, has thrown everything out and is now starting from scratch. Now that Pence is in charge, everything is devolving even further into chaos, and everyone is leaking and in-fighting.

The Stalin-esque Purge. Those aren’t my words. Those are the words of former congressman Mike Rogers, who resigned from the Trump transition team yesterday. Sources told NBC that Rogers actually got pushed out in a “Stalin-esque purge.” It will be the first of many, America.

Trump has turned the transition into a beauty pageant. Not really, but this is what VF writes: “Now, a group of ardent Trump loyalists—including Pence, Priebus, Bannon, Kushner, and Alabama senator Jeff Sessions—are steering the ship, Politico reports, each competing for influence as Trump seeks to complete his cabinet.” They’re all competing for Trump to declare them the prettiest transition member!

Some cabinet positions are already in the bag. Sort of. Rudy Giuliani is looking more like a sure thing for Secretary of State. Laura Ingraham will be press secretary. Sarah Palin for Interior. Trump is rewarding the people who were early supporters and long-time loyalists.

Corey Lewandowski is probably out though. Corey left his CNN job in a hurry once Trump won, and he reportedly wanted a position in Trump’s administration. But Jared Kushner – who seems to have a creepy amount of influence over his father-in-law – hates Corey and will not allow it. Reince Priebus apparently hates Lewandowski too.

The transition team didn’t show up for meetings. Members of the transition were supposed to get in-person briefings in Washington for DoD and DoE (Energy). Sources also say that Trump people have been asking Obama’s people to provide them with Republican names of who should fill their positions.

Ted Cruz for Attorney General. This made my blood run cold. Cruz is being “considered” for AG. Don’t do it, Trump! Please don’t do that.

[From VF, HuffPo & Bloomberg]

Meanwhile, all of this is happening while Trump literally hides out in Trump Tower. He’s been in Trump Tower ever since his day-long trip to Washington last Thursday, which is where Obama (literally) scared the sh-t out of him. I honestly think Trump hates everything about being president so far.

And finally, a conservative (neo-con, honestly) national security guy named Eliot A. Cohen tried to work with Trump’s national security team and he left after one meeting. He wrote an op-ed about it (complete with references to “palace coups” and “unquestioned loyalty”) and tweeted this:

After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They’re angry, arrogant, screaming “you LOST!” Will be ugly.

— Eliot A Cohen (@EliotACohen) November 15, 2016

And since Trump is a toddler, he had to tweet this last night:

Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016

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