Republican political strategist Karl Rove said that President-elect Donald Trump created undue “chaos and controversy” for himself over three of his Cabinet selections, asserting that confirmation hearings will be “messy and full of bad press.”

Rove made the comments in a guest column for The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, taking aim at Trump’s selections of Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Matt Gaetz, who dropped out of contention on Thursday, the day after Rove’s piece appeared.

Rove likened Trump’s picks of Hegseth for Defense Secretary and Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence to a “circus act,” adding that confirmation hearings for the pair “could also be messy and full of bad press.”

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