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President-elect Donald Trump has picked more white men named Doug than Black people for Cabinet positions.
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and former Georgia Congressman Doug Collins have been tapped by Trump to be the secretary of interior and secretary of veterans affairs, respectively, for his upcoming administration. Trump has yet to nominate any Black Americans for Cabinet positions.
Burgum and Collins join the likes of other Trump appointees including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who will need to be approved by the Senate in January.
With roughly 11 nominees chosen, Trump's cabinet sits at 81 percent white, per Newsweek. His cabinet is on track to be the least diverse this century.
Former White House attorney May Mailman, who served in Trump's first administration, defended the cabinet's lack of diversity.
"We are less interested in what somebody looks like or what their sex is, and we are far more interested in whether they're going to execute the president's agenda and whether they are going to unleash American businesses, whether they're going to weaponize the Department of Justice against people who don't agree with them politically and against businesses that don't agree with them politically," Mailman said in a statement.
"If we are going to celebrate things on the basis of diversity, then you can't gain the respect that you want and you deserve. If the president put someone somewhere it is because he trusts them, because he thinks that they are going to do a great job and that is empowering."
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