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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,933 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:00 PM Mar 2019

Why do all the president's hires disappoint him so?

By Dana Milbank

The Washington Post

It’s hard to find good help these days.

During his campaign, President Trump boasted that he would “surround myself only with the best.” But by his own account, his administration attracts rather the opposite.

On Saturday, Trump publicly mocked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, imitating his Southern accent: “The attorney general says, ‘I’m gonna recuse mah-self.’”

In the same speech, Trump discredited departing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein by saying the Trump-appointed official, whom the president accused last month of “planning a very illegal act,” had “never received a single vote.”

Last week, Trump said that soon-to-be-jailed Michael Cohen, once a “good person” and Trump’s personal attorney, had not only turned out to be a “failed lawyer” and a liar but was, by testifying to Congress about Trump, also partially to blame for the breakdown of nuclear talks with North Korea.

Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats may soon be replaced because he caused Trump “disappointment” by expressing (accurate) doubts that North Korea would cooperate with overtures to denuclearize, Trump confidant Christopher Ruddy told CNN. Coats may find himself in the unemployment line with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who has at times incurred Trump’s dissatisfaction over her work on the border.

The result of so much unhappiness with so many hires? After two years in the White House, Trump appears to be running not a country but a temp service.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/milbank-why-do-all-the-presidents-hires-disappoint-him-so/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=4ce68d7928-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-4ce68d7928-228635337

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Why do all the president's hires disappoint him so? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP
Who would want to work for him ever, but especially now? BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #1
The younger ones are going to trash their resume,... magicarpet Mar 2019 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,585 posts)
1. Who would want to work for him ever, but especially now?
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 07:17 PM
Mar 2019

Not only is he the most corrupt and worse president ever but he is also the worst boss, just ask his employees. I have no pity for those who volunteer to be put in a position where they know they will be abused and harassed. They must be masochists.

magicarpet

(14,145 posts)
2. The younger ones are going to trash their resume,...
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 08:03 PM
Mar 2019

.... especially if they get on Google for their Team Trump exploits and their names end up on the web for prosperity. Years down the road the connection to trDump will be a career bombshell.

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