I was talking about going after those who had attacked him. Trump is from Brooklyn, from New York City. HAving lived and worked there from 1996-2002, I can tell you exactly what he was thinking of doing, and those who knew him knew exactly.
He was telling everybody back in 1988 what he was going to do (Oprah), but no one paid attention.
You are correct in that Trump trusted people in the first term who he should never have trusted. But that is true for all of us. There are always people we should not have let into our OODA, but hindsight is the best teacher.
This time around the Trump team did not take government funds and resources like last time until they were well organized. The folks like Peter Strzok never had a chance to ambush the White House. Immediately every agency got someone in place then could trust and insubordination was hardly possible. And DOGE got into agencies instantly and started looking at the data before anyone could slow them down. Very quickly the bureaucracy has learned that resistance is futile. I expect to see these federal employee unions decimated within 3 years from now.
He was from Queens, not Brooklyn.