What did Donald Trump do today?

He picked some communications officers.

Today, Trump announced he was appointing Karoline Leavitt as his press secretary, and Steven Cheung as his director of communications.

Leavitt is a 27-year-old campaign spokesperson who has drawn comparison to Hope Hicks, a spokesperson turned advisor in Trump's first administration. Both were very young and inexperienced, but had (or adopted) a certain look Trump favors in his spokeswomen, and both reportedly have a knack for soothing Trump's emotional outbursts. 

Cheung is a former spokesperson for Ultimate Fighting Championship. He recently falsely accused a law enforcement officer of having a mental breakdown when she objected to the Trump campaign using Arlington National Cemetery for a campaign photo op. He called a South Carolina politician a "bitch" to deflect from first-hand witness accounts that Trump used racial slurs on the set of his game show. He used racial dog-whistles to suggest that Vice-President Kamala Harris "smells."

Leavitt and Cheung will be the main White House employees dealing with members of the press, whom Trump has threatened with violence, imprisonment, and worse.

So what?

• White House communications officials are supposed to work for the American people, not as political surrogates.

• They're also supposed to be qualified for their jobs.