I detect the hand of Mike Pence; yet another Fundamentalist Christian goes to the White House.

"Pruitt is also an evangelical Christian — he serves as a deacon at First Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Okla. and graduated from Georgetown College, an evangelical school. He has a record of opposing marriage equality, transgender bathroom access and abortion, and opposed a church-state separation ballot initiative on the Oklahoma ballot earlier this year."

http://religionnews.com/2016/12/05/evangelicals-in-trumps-cabinet-educators-worry-science-will-be-a-casualty/