Of course, because we’re grading on the world’s largest curve, the fact that Kudlow has come out against Trump’s tariffs gives him a leg up on people like Peter Navarro, who thinks free trade has led to “rising mortality rate[s]” and divorce. But that‘s sort of like saying Rick “Where am I?” Perry is qualified to be Energy Secretary because he’s never stuck his finger in a nuclear reactor. Don’t take it from us, though—here’s what Kudlow’s former boss had to say, when asked for a reference:

Larry Kudlow . . . would be “exactly the wrong voice” as President Donald Trump’s new top economic adviser, said former Reagan budget director David Stockman. Somebody needs to wake up Trump from an economic agenda that’s “off the deep end,” something Kudlow would not be able to do, Stockman argued.

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Steve Mnuchin thinks it’s great when the president calls people sons of bitches

Last week, in the wake of Gary Cohn’s resignation, a former Goldman Sachs partner I spoke with told me he was extra worried about the turn of events in light of the fact that Cohn was one of the few remaining people in the administration who knows what they’re talking about. “If you go back to Obama, if Larry Summers had quit, it would have been fine, you had good people at Treasury, there were adults in the room who went to class,” this person said, adding “Wilbur Ross is only about self-interest . . . Peter Navarro’s missing a few strings on his banjo,” and “Steve Mnuchin is simply a sycophant.” Then, as if on cue, the Treasury secretary had this to say during a Sunday interview with Chuck Todd, in which the Meet the Press host brought up the fact that Trump had called Representative Maxine Waters “a very low-IQ individual,” and Todd himself a “sleeping son of a bitch”:

Chuck Todd: I think you most recently appeared before her committee. She’s the Ranking Member on House Financial Services. If somebody on your staff referred to her that way in public, would that person still be on your staff?