President Trump nominated Ryan Zinke to be Interior Secretary at the urging of Trump’s son, Don Jr. Famously, Zinke marked the occasion of his assuming office by riding up to the Department HQ on a horse (with his cowboy hat on backwards unfortunately) and by setting a rule that the Department must hoist its flag at the HQ every time he was there.
Zinke was chastized multiple times by the Interior Department Inspector General for ethical lapses during his tenure. Eventually, Trump accepted Secretary Zinke’s resignation. It was remarkable that even Trump who set an historical record for number of lies told in office apparently considered Zinke too unethical to serve as his Interior Secretary.
Here is an example of one of the Inspector General’s reports on Zinke’s telling lies to Department investigators.