I don’t think Elaine Chao was necessarily Trump’s first choice for Transportation Secretary.
I think The Art of the Deal is underway here.
Trump operates from hunches quite a lot.
If it’s God who is giving him the hunches... we’re going to see some very unexpected people do some very unexpected things. She’s “approximately OK” — certainly head and shoulders over anything a Democrat administration would come up with — but not the most stellar at the moment. That’s OK. Stars turn into supernovas.