Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal but he’s Secretary of the goddamned Interior and it further reinforces the fact that Trump’s nominees were only nominated to destroy their agencies from the inside. This was obviously just supposed to be a PR stunt because anybody who’d been fly fishing even once before would’ve rigged their reel correctly.

Zinke had already rigged his fishing rod when our writer showed up to interview him at the edge of a lake in Glacier National Park. He’d rigged it backwards. https://t.co/ZJujN2c8hm pic.twitter.com/dOXv3mLxGP

— Outside Magazine (@outsidemagazine) December 6, 2017