He also shows deep ignorance with his "no matter how ruthlessly" comment. Nobody (including corporations) has a duty to be ruthless. Everyone has moral, legal, and ethical obligations by which they should be constrained. The idea that anyone is duty-bound to ruthlessness is psychopathic.

I don’t think there’s anything stopping him from calling it a department. Its head won’t be a Senate-confirmed member of the cabinet, but these guys probably don’t care.