He's also not a scientist and thinks climate change is a hoax.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/donald-trump-sam-clovis-old-blog-progressives-obama
Sam Clovis: Trump's pick for top science job called progressives 'race traitors'
Donald Trumps nominee to be the department of agricultures lead scientist used to run a blog that also likened Obama to a communist and dictator
In a September 2011 post, Clovis said that Obama was brought up by socialists to be a socialist. His associations were socialists or worse, criminal dissidents who were bent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
Warming to the theme, Clovis claimed in subsequent posts that Obama had a communist father, socialist mother and has designs on being a dictator. Obamas followers, Clovis claimed are progressive, Maoist, anti-colonist.
Clovis, who served in the Air Force for 25 years, turned his attention to race in August 2011, labeling progressives as liars, race traders and race traitors. He also accused progressives of keeping minorities in this country enslaved to government with a supposed desire to essentially eliminate people of color from the American landscape.
In June 2011, Clovis said civil rights leader WEB Du Bois was the first race trader for convincing black people to vote for Woodrow Wilson.
Clovis is a departure from previous USDAs chief scientists, without a strong science background. He also departs from mainstream scientists with his views on climate change, which he said he was skeptical about in 2014, claiming that a lot of the science is junk science.
Clovis was Trumps top policy advisor in 2015 when the presidential candidate announced his infamous Muslim ban. The former Iowa college professor described the policy of banning all Muslims from entering the United States to the Guardian as a reasonable precaution in order to stop, take a break, have a look and make sure everything is cool
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/donald-trump-sam-clovis-old-blog-progressives-obama