Carson is Secretary of an industry with which he is wholly unfamiliar, and in which he had no training. In ways, he's a smart man. But not here, in this way, in the industry of housing and urban development. The scientific precisions of surgeons, and abstractions of HUD concepts, ideas, and policies are about as polar opposite in human thought one can find in the human experience. 

Leave it to Trump, to whom virtually all scholarship is a mystery, to misunderstand appointment. Trump thinks and expects books to be written about him. He never had time to read books. He's much too important, and busy for that nonsense. 

Siagiah wrote:

What I don't get is WHY Congress confirms them when they KNOW that they are clueless ????

Ben Carson is a brilliant surgeon.  WHY on earth would he accept an appointment to something SO foreign to him ???
 

Majority of Congress was Republican. So was Carson. That's all they need. All they need to know. 
The moment they say they put country over party, they lie. So do Democrats, but not as badly, or blatantly. 
Carson has some weird personal beliefs. For example, his belief the Egyptian Pyramids were the granaries built for the Joseph years of famine. Anyone is entitled to his beliefs. But he is not authorized to create policy based on his beliefs either. In Biblical history, Carson sounds like a crank, and if he's a crank there, he's likely a crank as HUD Sec'y. His surgery of cutting the HUD budget pleased Trump greatly, and neither has the slightest knowledge about, or concern for those dependent on the programs cut. In terms Carson might understand, it's like removal of brain in effort to save the tumor. 
 

Well, that makes sense.  It's still totally ridiculous and as irresponsible as imaginable...