You forgot, Trump's way, "Get outta here, YOU'RE FIRED.
I love it when he does something that pisses off the demonRATs for no apparent reason {but he knows why}.
BTW, your idea of calling some one in and "having a conversation" is pure bullshit, getting fired is tough, there is NO right way nor wrong way to do it.
There are bad and less bad ways to fire people. I’ve seen plenty of people get fired. I’ve never seen it done by email. If it’s a mass firing because of some major reorganization, it would be different, but this is a one-off involving the top position at a major institution. Corporate boards don’t fire CEO’s this way. Neither do university trustees. Corporate CEO’s don’t fire members of their senior executive teams this way.
Yes, “Get outta here, YOU’RE FIRED” is Trump’s way. That’s part of Trump’s problem. At this point, I don’t see why any A-lister would leave a significant executive job, take a huge pay cut, and go to work for Trump when part of the job would be getting up early and checking twitter each morning to see if you still had a job. Maybe Trump doesn’t want A-listers. In fact, I don’t think he does; he wants people who are totally dependent on him and who will blindly obey.
Elon Musk can probably talk back to him, but Musk was a special, essentially unofficial appointment to an advisory position; he came aboard with a specific and short period of service in mind, and he was on his way back out the door the moment he arrived. Musk could buy and sell Trump for chump change. Trump respects that, but I don’t think he would want Musk in his cabinet long term.
Have you ever done it? Had it done to you? Been involved in a legal filing as a result of the firing? I’ve done all three. There absolutely is a “right way and a wrong way” . Sphinx laid it out pretty well.