I've said this for years. I suspect it was due to a number of factors:
Being an outsider. Not being from the political world, he didn't have the "who's who in DC" insights that most career politician President's have.
Assuming too much that politics is like business. In the business world, despite corporate politics and wrangling, everyone still has the same underlying goal: to make money and increase the value of the company. Trump underestimated the level of deranged antipathy and treacherous subversion he was going to have to deal with.
Conventional wisdom in the business world is that new leaders should wait several months before implementing big changes. MBA schools teach this ad naseum. Keeping Obama holdovers was a big mistake. Typically all political appointees are fired on Day 1 of a new administration. Even Bush 41 did this with Reagan's.
Not being a political ideologue. Trump is instinctual, not ideological. Not having an overarching ideology led him to make decisions based on qualification and resume (e.g. Tillerson, Kelly, Mattis), not on whether they were going to be on board with his agenda.
Not at all. This is just one aspect of his administration. President Trump has done a phenomenal job on so many other issues: the economy, border security, national defense, foreign relations, etc). Just because he made some lousy picks, doesn't define his presidency. Furthermore, he has had the courage to correct mistakes rather than just letting them fester. He's gotten rid of Preibus, Tillerson, Sessions, Mattis, Kelly, Bolton, and others. That is a positive trait from the business world where you're not afraid to fire people for not getting the job done.
He was the hail marry to save our country. His presidency has revealed that the deepstate have all the power,. If you try to oppose the deepstate, you'll be obstructed every single time
I've said this for years. I suspect it was due to a number of factors:
This! This is a fair assessment of President Trump and his hiring decisions. #2 is the most important and most true.
Not at all. This is just one aspect of his administration. President Trump has done a phenomenal job on so many other issues: the economy, border security, national defense, foreign relations, etc). Just because he made some lousy picks, doesn't define his presidency. Furthermore, he has had the courage to correct mistakes rather than just letting them fester. He's gotten rid of Preibus, Tillerson, Sessions, Mattis, Kelly, Bolton, and others. That is a positive trait from the business world where you're not afraid to fire people for not getting the job done.
He was the hail marry to save our country. His presidency has revealed that the deepstate have all the power,. If you try to oppose the deepstate, you'll be obstructed every single time