Trump was too trusting. I've been trying to figure out how it's possible Trump was never able to surround himself with loyal people during his time in office. I think it was a multitude of things;

1. everyone in D.C. is a scumbag and were easily blackmailed,

2. straight up sabotage by "trusted conservatives" who are really just communist, controlled opposition,

3. the Bush family was doing everything in their power behind the scenes to get people in positions to obstruct everything Trump wanted to do as payback for how he treated Jeb!,

4. the heads of the military are anti-Trump war hawks that lied to him and went behind his back to disobey and fuck up all of his plans,

5. Obama was still in D.C. for Trump's presidency and was pulling the strings through loyalist operatives in every three-letter executive branch agency as payback for how Trump's election was a hugely embarrassing indictment of his own presidency,

6. The media was successful in scaring away people that would have otherwise been helpful through threats of ruining their careers by associating with a "literal fascist nazi bigot racist etc"

7. Trump was too use to the business world where typically people do what they say they will and mean what they say (at least more than in D.C.), and

8. I kind of touched on already, but the GOP hoodwinked Trump into allowing them to help set up his cabinet members from the beginning (which were all sabotage chaos agents) and Trump had to spend a lot of his time in D.C. weeding out the rats. His most loyal appointee was Ben Carson it would seem.

I really just think the swamp was so fucking bad there was almost nobody he could turn to, which is why he ended up depending on his family members for so much. He's actually very lucky to have had them in hind-sight.

Idk those are just my ramblings.