You recently wrote that if “Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and eight specific Cabinet officials” had been vaporized by aliens, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer (11th in the line of succession) could have become president at the very moment she was (allegedly) visiting a strip club. Shouldn’t it be fewer than eight officials, since some are only ACTING cabinet members? —Jade C. Frankly, Jade, this is a completely inconsequential quibble that smacks of gratuitous pedantry.