So your argument is that the Trump administration is rational, but the media is not.  Good luck with that.  You also left out Pruitt, Conway, deVos, the Trump kids, Carson and Perry from your list, and I sure hope the second Kelly in your list isn't Conway.  Anyway there is more than enough incompetence in the rest of the cabinet to do some serious damage.  Their plans are to: ignore climate change, dismantle the EPA, burn more coal, privatize education and mine the parks.  That's what they have said, no need to blame the media there.  I do have confidence in Mattis and Tillerson and it does look like Trump has burned his fingers in the foreign policy dept enough times to lay off for a while.  But you can never count on anything with him.  The Qatar situation was a fiasco, and there is still the fear that the competents who aren't there for the sake of raw ambition will get fed up and quit.  Notably, Tillerson.