Since Trump’s election victory, his team has been dogged by accusations that his transition to the White House is going less than smoothly. Several former allies have been fired in what has been described as a “purge” orchestrated by one of Trump’s closest advisors, his daughter Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner.

Recent appointees to Trump’s cabinet of horrors, meanwhile, include several notorious racists, sexists and xenophobes. His new chief strategist is Steve Bannon, the head of ultra-conservative, alt-right ‘news organisation’ Breitbart News (choice headlines: “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy”; “Young Muslims in the West are a ticking time bomb”).

Michael Flynn – an Islamophobe who has been paid by authoritarian regimes in Turkey and Russia, and is described by several former colleagues as “unhinged” – has been made national security advisor. And Jeff Sessions, Trump’s new attorney general, was rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986 after making racist remarks, including allegedly calling a black lawyer “boy”.

But in his latest video, Trump insisted that “our transition team is working very smoothly, efficiently and effectively. Truly great and talented men and women, patriots indeed, are being brought in and many will soon be a part of our government, helping us to make America great again.”

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