PUT ON THAT GRIN AND START RIGHT IN AND WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK

Here’s another good article by Ezra Klein on the Vox website, this one about why a man who bragged about hiring only the best people has wound up with such a dysfunctional staff.

TL;DR?

Start with this. Trump’s boast about hiring the best people was never true in the first place.  Trump wants constant praise and blind loyalty, so he surrounds himself with courtiers rather than competence.  The result is constant in-fighting, as sycophants jockey for position.  Everyone’s waiting to knife everyone else in the back.  After a year of this very public dysfunction, competent people who might otherwise want a White House staff job see the Trump White House as a career killer, and stay away.

Klein: “Forget the best people. It’s an open question whether he can even attract qualified people. But that’s because this isn’t really a crisis of staffing. It’s a crisis of management.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/13/17004108/trump-aides-legal-fees-firing-resignations