WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Nov 21, (AP): In the two weeks since Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump has been setting records with the pace of appointments for his incoming administration. But speed shouldn’t be confused with organization. Trump has pumped out more than two dozen appointments and nominations, including 16 Cabinet-level positions.

The selection process, playing out in a converted conference room at his Mar-a-Lago club and on his gilded private jet, risks repeating some of the errors of his first term, and making some new ones. The picks are at once a manifestation of Trump’s pledge to voters to be a disruptive force in the country and a return to the chaotic era of governance that defined his first four years in the Oval Office.

"Last time they were slow and disorganized, this time they’re fast and disorganized,” said David Marchick, dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University and co-author of "The Peaceful Transition of Power,” a book on presidential transitions. He said Trump was moving at least four times as quickly at rolling out his Cabinet as his modern predecessors, but added: "They’re moving with speed, but they’re making new mistakes.” "He’s going at breakneck, reckless speed because there’s no vetting."

Trump himself has displayed no signs of regret about his personnel choices despite the questions that have arisen about some of his nominees' qualifications and backgrounds. Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, an ally to Trump, said, "The president deserves to be able to put people in place who will do what he campaigned on, which is to disrupt, and the establishment is concerned, and they probably should be.” But while allies say they are using their own processes to prepare for governing as the president-elect works to execute on his pledge to dramatically reshape Washington, Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said Trump's team was missing a critical element of the process.

"The transition is not about change,” he said, "it is about finding the right change agent.” Trump’s transition team has not signed the requisite agreements with the White House and the Department of Justice to allow for government background checks of his potential appointments and nominees. The process is playing out from Trump's private club and his old campaign offices, not government facilities in Washington, as the president-elect has thus far chosen not to cooperate with the Biden administration while preparing for his own.