Every four years, the president-elect has the ability to choose their cabinet of officials to become the heads of the 15 executive departments, along with other staff positions. The cabinet’s role is to advise the president on duties relating to their specific offices and help run a successful administration.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations so far can only be described as shocking, disastrous and concerning.

As of Monday, Dec. 9, Trump has made 74 staff nominations with two of his picks withdrawing and 45 seeking Senate approval. The main reason these nominations are so concerning is because of the overwhelming number of unqualified candidates. Acknowledging this, in an interview with CBS News, Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said, “These people are manifestly unqualified, and you know, they’re not prepared to run the very complicated organizations they’ve been asked to run.”

Trump’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is the most unqualified of them all. Despite the fact that he’ll be in charge of America’s military if approved by the Senate, he has no prior experience or expertise that would lead any knowledgeable person to pick him for this position. He began his career working in the Army National Guard before spending the last 10 years of his life working as a Fox News host. Hegseth spent that time on Fox News spewing nonsense and pushing concerning agendas such as when he said, “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn’t made us more effective.”

Trump’s nomination for Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was also running for president in the election before he dropped out and endorsed Trump According to an article from the BBC, Kennedy has repeatedly spread false claims in the past about how African-Americans and Caucasians were more prone to contract the COVID-19 virus compared to “Asians or Jews” and how vaccines can directly cause autism. These aren’t the only conspiracies he’s spread online to millions, and It’s concerning to see Trump nominate someone like this to control U.S. health.

The political initiative labeled Project 2025 was a hot topic of the election because of its policies and stances on topics such as Immigration, abortion and an overall vision for when Trump takes office. Despite previously claiming that he had no connection to the initiative, Trump recently nominated Tom Homan, Russell Vought and John Ratcliffe to key positions in his cabinet. All three of them were contributors to the creation of Project 2025.

Homan, Trump’s nominee for White House “border czar,” was formerly the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term and then he went on to become a key contributor in the Mandate for Leadership section of Project 2025. Homan has been tasked with the responsibility of carrying out Trump’s mass deportation plan for illegal immigrants. In an interview with CBS News regarding Homan’s plan, Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois said, “Of course, they are going to try to target communities that understand, like Chicago, that immigrants have contributed to our economy.”

Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee for director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will be returning to the same position he held under Trump’s first administration and he was also listed as an architect of Project 2025 initiative. According to an article from PBS News, his plan is to slash spending programs and the independence of federal agencies without Congressional approval in order to expand executive power for the president. If he goes through with this, it is serves a major threat to the democracy of this country.

Lastly, John Ratcliffe, Trump’s pick for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was listed as a contributor in the Intelligence Community chapter of Project 2025. Ratcliffe also worked as the director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and he has remained an avid defender of Trump’s mis-steps, such as when he got impeached back in 2020. “This is the thinnest, fastest and weakest impeachment our country has ever seen,” Ratcliffe said after the impeachment.

Despite being the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice in one term, Americans have elected Trump back into office and over the next four years, we’ll have to deal with the consequences.