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If your takeaway from that headline, given what I will afford you are two technically semantically correct options, is that the POTUS, for literally the first time in history, is acting as a member of their own cabinet and not just that they're replacing a member thereof, it's not incumbent on the Associated Press to account for that. I'm consistently baffled at how much people will blame news headlines for their own functional illiteracy and then refuse to even peek into the article for five seconds to check.
To read the title that way at first is a brain fart; to still be confused after stopping and thinking for a second is stupidity. To not check the article afterward is willful ignorance.
My point is that it's poorly worded.
It isn't; you just really fucking suck at reading and want to blame that on professional writers. Not just reading as a skill but reading as a casual interest, given you again intentionally didn't even check the article.
Naw dude, the takeaway here is that you're a pendantic prick.
Maybe these "professional writers" could take a cue from the dozens of other writers that wrote less shitty headlines about the exact same thing.
You mean like BBC News: "Live updates: Trump replaces Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem"
It's a basic English sentence that you just couldn't and didn't try to understand and then shamelessly blamed anyone but yourself for. Cry harder.
"Cry harder," says the only person worked up about a humorous comment pointing out ambiguous language.
"Joke's on you; I was only pretending to not be able to read English at a fifth-grade level."
Literally everybody but you got the joke, champ.
To be fair, there are a lot of things Trump has done that were firsts for the office. I initially misread the headline too, simply because I wouldn't be surprised if Trump did something absurd like replacing Noem with himself. Because he does a lot of absurd things that have never been done by a US president before. I understood it correctly after reading more, but if someone's misreading the headline as something bizarre, it's probably because every headline is bizarre nowadays.
I understand what you're saying, and it's at that point any media-literate person (you) thinks: "Hmm, I'll just check the article and clear this up." To even get to that point, you'd not just have to buy Trump would try to do that (I don't, but I see how someone could); much more importantly, you'd have to assume the headline, for some godforsaken reason, isn't taking into account how unusual it is and therefore being crystal clear that Trump is trying to insert himself in the role.
Reading the headline that way is already an enormous leap that basically only makes semantic sense, but refusing to follow up on that interpretation is where I draw the line between someone who didn't understand at first and tried to and someone who actively chose not to understand. The latter I've run out of patience for over the last decade; the former show strong character through how they respond to a mistake.
The title is accurate, but it is also poorly worded because of that possible interpretation.
You're getting downvotes because people aren't willing to admit their brains picked the the stupidest interpretation of the headline and just went with that instead of actually thinking about the more likely way it was meant, or reading ANY of the article to verify. They're reacting to defend that initial assumption, instead of acknowledging that they made an incorrect off the cuff assumption from the headline and just moving on with their day. They're doing exactly what MAGA does, that they criticize them for constantly, and a source of how we got into this political shitstorm of a system in the first place.