Donald Trump, remove Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard from your cabinet immediately

In January 2017, just a short week after taking office for the first time, President Trump had already issued 19 executive actions, and this paper dubbed him DON NONSTOP.

To which second-term Trump says: “Hold my Diet Coke.”

The MSNBC hosts had barely dried their tears before the president-elect was nominating almost his entire Cabinet.

He rightly sees his thumping victory in both the Electoral College and popular vote as a mandate — make that a plea — from the people to reverse the disastrous four years of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration.

His choice of Tom Homan as border czar shows he’s serious about stopping the dangerous, out-of-control migrant crisis.

He’ll have a steady hand at the tiller with chief of staff Susie Wiles, and smart operators in Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Doug Burgum as energy czar.

Rumor has it that Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management, is a possibility for Treasury, but others in the mix sound good, too — at least they won’t pursue the free-money, high-inflation, no-growth policies of the Biden years.

And three cheers for the Department of Government Efficiency.

The bloated federal government needs outsiders like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to pop open the hood and see what can be fixed, streamlined or chucked.

And if they give New York Times opinion writers the vapors, even better!

It’s a strong team, and one that, for the most part, the Senate will have no issue confirming.

Which is why Trump shouldn’t be so insistent that recess appointments be used to install his choices.

The recess loophole was introduced at a time before airplanes and telephones, a necessity for making sure the government didn’t grind to a halt because the Senate was scattered across our fledgling nation.

It was not meant to bypass the constitutional balance of powers — nor prevent the Senate from saving a president from himself.

A mass recess appointment won’t save much time, and creates a dangerous precedent.

What will happen when an incoming Democratic president wants to install Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as secretary of the treasury?

It’s bad enough we had Alejandro Mayorkas as Biden’s gormless Homeland Security secretary. What happens when all guardrails are removed?

We can predict what President Trump’s answer might be: Someone else’s problem.

But he should consider how the needless battles of today can impact him — and his legacy — tomorrow.

Which brings us to the reason Trump is pushing so hard for recess appointments: Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard.

While most of the Cabinet picks have been excellent, and some of them risky but promising, Gaetz and Gabbard are dreadful.

We plead that he rethinks them.

They’re distracting chaos agents who won’t accomplish what Trump wants them to, and will most likely backfire on his agenda.