Posted on 03/01/2023 8:33:09 AM PST by PJ-Comix
My hope would be that Trump has learned. He can use a series of interim appointments if he needed to. That would allow him to bypass schmukie. Not having to worry about re-election is huge. Has he learned? I don’t know. He did nothing to prevent Mitt’s niece from getting the head GOP position so maybe not.
When are we going to see the video?
Click the link that says... "VIDEO"
If you’re referring to the tens of thousands of hours of unreleased footage, Tucker Carlson and staff have exclusive rights to review it.
Ironically, now the other “media” companies want access, when they were fine with all of it being kept hidden for the last two years.
Christopher Wray = short rope + tall branch.
Trump trusted a lot of people his first time around, and he fired alot of people.
I think it’s fair to say, that won’t happen again.
Who recommended Wray, Chris Christie?
Who recommended that half wit AG, GEorge Bush
Who recommended that worthless first SEC Condoleeza Rice?
You also forget that Trump no support, none among the GOP the first year. They were all subverting him.
Trump needs to think about putting his team together now, don’t wait for the primaries, because a lot of us need to be convinced he’s not going to get stuck with the same kind of backstabbers he had the first time around.
True.
That’s why in my opinion, people like Pompeo and Desantis, former supporters need to come out and make their intentions known.
I’d love to see wholesale support for him among his former loyal staff.
But, it seems likely that Desantis for one will be convinced that he should run against Trump.
So, who should he pick?
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Many undercover feds there. LMAO! That would be a G.I.V.E.N.
“So the question to you is: WHY WOULD YOU ASSUME NOTHING CHANGES.”
I would assume nothing changes by looking at Trump’s behavior with key appointments who underperformed or were insubordinate. Show me where he learned from his mistakes. Look at the record in many of his key hires.
Other than replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, I see little evidence Trump improved in his ability to seek the right person for the job particularly for key positions.
Consider the greatest crisis in Trump’s administration — the Covid 19 pandemic. Who did he appoint to set policy and manage the pandemic? Vice President Pence, Anthony Fauci, and Deborah Birx. Fauci and Birx were openly hostile to Trump. Pence early in the pandemic showed himself woefully inadequate to lead the effort, much less manage Fauci and Birx. Yet Trump notably did not step in to make any changes to the crisis management team until the end of August 2020 when he added Scott Atlas to the task force. While Atlas brought a refreshing alternative perspective, Fauci and Birx worked the press and the medical establishment to neutralize Atlas. Atlas resigned November 30, 2020, after having served only 3 months. After Atlas resigned Fauci remained the primary policy maker and scientific spokesman. Trump would not fire Fauci or countermand the policies Fauci dictated, likely causing thousands of deaths from Covid and the vaccines as well as significant damage to the US economy. Trump could not bring himself to change the players when his primary advisors were not up to the task.
His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared were reportedly key advisors to Trump throughout his term, if not his closest advisors. They were involved in many key personnel decisions. Now they seem to have walked away from him announcing they will not be part of a second campaign, or should he win, term of office. Did their advice contribute to some of his bad appointments? If they were so essential to his success, why are they not part of the team going forward?
Trump’s first Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who notably made the incredibly stupid mistake of recusing himself from investigations without consulting Trump, was replaced with William Barr. Barr criticized Trump and appeared to take actions deliberately harmful to the President’s agenda. Yet Trump did not fire him. Barr resigned on his own in a dramatic repudiation of the President.
Trump also appointed Rod Rosenstein deputy attorney general, Rosenstein effectively served as attorney general when Sessions recused himself and developed a low profile. Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special prosecutor. Notably Trump did not fire Sessions, Rosenstein, or Mueller.
Trump did remove James Comey as Director of the FBI and replaced him with Christopher Wray who continues to serve under Joe Biden. Wray is arguably as bad or worse than Comey in secretive dealings and trampling on Constitutional rights of Americans, yet Trump tolerated Wray’s dealings and chose not to fire him.
Reince Priebus, Trump’s first White House Chief of Staff was replaced after 6 months with General John Kelly. Priebus, the consummate Washington insider, was a strange hire for Chief of Staff by the man who ran on draining the swamp. Kelly served 1 1/2 years before being fired and replaced with Mick Mulvaney who was later replaced with Mark Meadows. The Chief of Staff position is arguably one of the, if not the most critical job in the White House.
Secretary of Defense Mattis, Trump’s first Secretary of Defense, was replaced with Patrick Shanahan who was nominated but withdrew. Mark Esper was then nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate. Trump fired Esper after the 2020 election.
Trump appointed General Mark Milley, arguably the worst Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, against the recommendation of both his Secretary of Defense and the outgoing Chairman. Milley openly made comments agains the president to the press, essentially insubordination against the Commander in Chief, yet Trump did not replace him. Milley serves today under Joe Biden.
Cabinet Secretaries Betsy De Voss and Elaine Chao both stabbed Trump in the back during the period after January 6, 2021, resigning from office and repudiating him.
Consider also Trump’s long time personal attorney, Michael Cohen who turned out to be unethical, involved in criminal conduct and a backstabber of the president. Trump’s hiring of Cohen predated his election to the president. Trump made a terrible selection in the person who was one of his closest personal advisers.
The hiring of Antony Scaramucci on July 21, 2017 as White House Communications Director, resulted in the immediate resignation of the very capable White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer in protest. A few days later, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, who had opposed the hiring of Scaramucci, resigned. Scaramucci, after creating tremendous havoc leaking to the press, resigned July 31, 2017, after only 10 days in office. After resigning Scaramucci became a strong critic of the president and heavily involved in anti-Trump political activities.
So from your perspective, who were the great appointments of President Trump who successfully worked with him to drive his agenda, particularly during the crisis of the pandemic which challenged his administration and negatively impacted every American citizen.
Very nice summation. It is a keeper.
I would assume nothing changes by looking at Trump’s behavior with key appointments who underperformed or were insubordinate. Show me where he learned from his mistakes. Look at the record in many of his key hires.
You just want to be right, not learn anything and piss and moan.
Maybe you should be in the leadership position, YOU know how to do it.
I have hired many people at all levels of management from hourly employees to division presidents of large corporations.
I have overseen business startups of 4-5 people that grew into thriving businesses with hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and strong market share positions.
I have also successfully executed turnarounds of mature struggling businesses gy finding and hiring talented creative people, and superb managers who developed innovative products which added sales in existing markets and opened new markets to deliver accelerated growth at an exceptional return on invested capital.
My people strategy is to hire high performance, highly motivated talented people who relish the challenge of delivering exceptional performance in a team environment. I use the “we” word when talking about the organizations I lead, not the “I” word. The team for which I am responsible deserves and receives the credit for their success. I succeed as the leader because they are successful, not because I micromanage them.
I do know how to do it and I have done it multiple times in multiple businesses. From personal observation of executives over nearly 4 decades it is my perspective Trump’s “its all about me” leadership attitude is not optimal and doesn’t attract the best people, or motivate people to give their best. Blaming people publicly for the failures of the organization also doesn’t deliver optimal results in my experience.
Perhaps Trump’s people failures are because he can’t attract the best talent. Why would an effective leader want to work for Trump?
Perhaps Trump’s way works in the hotel and property development industries. It certainly didn’t work for him as President. Armies of one are rarely successful leading large organizations. Almost all of the “successes” Trump personally claimed credit for were undone during the first few weeks of Joe Biden’s time in office. The Covid vaccine, for which he claims credit, does not prevent the recipient from contracting the disease or keep the disease from spreading. It does not meet the long accepted definition of a successful vaccine, so he definition of vaccine had to be changed. Now we are beginning to discover short and long term negative health impacts directly related to the vaccine. Short cutting the health trials does have repercussions.
You apparently believe he did a great job, was a great manager of people, and would be even more successful in a second term. You are entitled to your opinion. I don’t see it. If you are truly a liberty loving conservative you will respect the fact we can hold differing opinions and my point of view comes from actual experience.
You may brag all you want to, now do it in the swamp.
You obviously have done things in the past. So have I. But The swamp is currently HUGE. IF you put just patriotism or ideology in the position like the dems, what to you get? Total incompetence.
How rare is a good patriotic leader now. How do you find leaders? Lots of drones. My experience is you don’t find many.
I have a few warriors in my life and they are RARE.
Trump looked for skill and patriotism as best he could. He did more than anyone else . But all you want to do is complain, and INSUNUATE you could have done it right.
“But all you want to do is complain, and INSUNUATE you could have done it right.”
I voted for Trump twice. I will vote for him again in 2024 if he is the nominee and if he runs third party I may vote for him if I perceive he is better than the candidates the two parties put forward. I was pleased with most of the things Trump tried to do. I just happen to believe in government he could be more successful if he had put better people in key jobs who were committed to his policies. I also have issues with his overt narcissism. Apparently you do not. I have never questioned his patriotism or his willingness to fight for his objectives.
What in the end did he accomplish? He certainly slowed the decline of the US and the imposition of the leftist tyranny of the entrenched bureaucracy which we saw under Clinton, Obama, and now Biden. He certainly fought the leftist tyranny more than either Bush, McCain, Romney, or McConnell and Ryan. While he may have slowed the momentum, he did not stop it. In Biden’s first few days in office Biden countermanded most of Trump’s key accomplishments, stopping the Keystone Pipeline and the push for energy independence, ending construction of the border wall, and reinstating most of the regulations Trump had rescinded. Biden also weaponized Trump’s vaccine, using the power of the federal government to browbeat millions of Americans into taking a medical treatment with zero studies as to the long term effects. Given the number of unexplained sudden deaths the nation is currently experiencing, it may be Trump’s vaccine will go down in history as a tragic mistake.
Trump was a warrior but he ultimately failed to roll back the tyranny of the leftist state, much less make American great again. My question is, if he gets another term how will he win? His election battle plan worked in 2016, it failed in 2020. What is the plan for 2024? If it is more of the same, his enemies have already proven they can defeat him. The RINO’s will still dominate the GOP caucus in the Senate and Trump will have to deal with them in making appointments to key positions in his administration.
As to insinuating I could have done it right, I never did so. I am under no illusion I could accomplish more than what Trump tried to accomplish, particularly given the opposition he faced from his own party in Congress. Without the support of Congress, any president is severely handicapped in office. The fact I choose not to run for office does not preclude me as an American citizen for holding an opinion about government or our leaders. I perceive Biden to be one of the worst presidents in our history. In your world where I’m not allowed to have some reasoned negative opinions of Trump am I also not allowed to think negatively about Biden? Or is your position your fellow citizens can only hold opinions you agree with? If so you are not a believer in personal freedom and liberty.
I am not complaining about Trump, I am merely suggesting he needs to find, vet and put in place more people committed to his program if he is going to have a chance to win against the squishy RINO’s in Congress, the fully committed anti-Trump Democrats, and the entrenched unaccountable government bureaucracy. Obama was very adept at installing social justice warriors throughout the bureaucracy to be hidden land mines for the next administration. One of Obama’s last acts was to turn many appointed senior bureaucratic positions into regular civil service jobs, thereby ensuring his people would be in place permanently to sabotage any Republican administration. To counteract this entrenched social justice army, any conservative administration is going to need to put MAGA warriors in place to battle everyday. Trump, as an army of one, cannot fight by himself thousands of committed obstructor scattered throughout the bureaucracy and unable to be fired due to civil service laws.
Like you I have been dismayed by the absence of “warriors” willing to actually fight against the left since Ronald Reagan. The Democrat establishment is filled with warriors. The Republican establishment is filled with servants for the Republican donor base who will quickly compromise principles for expedience or to avoid being portrayed as racist and offensive. Mitt Romney for example is not a warrior and he went down to defeat because he would not even try to fight for the job he ostensibly wanted.
You may or may not be aware but each of the two party’s presidential candidates is provided a presidential transition fund so a staff can work to put an administration in place. The concept is that the day after election day, the winner will have the key appointed players identified, vetted, and ready to go before the Senate for confirmation and be in place on inauguration day. The Trump campaign was given $6 million by the General Services Administration to fund this advance transition work to ensure smooth continuity of government.
Donald Trump appointed Chris Christie to be his transition head. Appointing Christie was his decision, he could have appointed anyone he wished. There was no approval process for this appointment. You may remember that the day after election Trump began scrambling to identify candidates and interview them. Chris Christie did not do the job he was selected to perform and apparently Donald Trump did not check in with Christie during the campaign so he was not aware Christie had failed to perform. The failure to spend time attending to the transition was a huge management failure on Trump’s part. As a result, instead of having an administration ready to go on inauguration day, he had no choice but to keep Obama holdovers in place for months afterward. Those Obama holdovers slowed down the implementation of his policies, costing him the momentum most presidents realize during their honeymoon.
Trump fired Christie as transition head within days of winning the election but the damage was done. Proving the warrior can go to battle but if there aren’t soldiers with him, he isn’t going to make it very far.
Repeatedly during the 2016 election Trump promised to “drain the swamp.” He talked about all of the great business leaders he knew in the private sector who he would bring to Washington to change the bureaucracy. Instead Trump filled most of the jobs with inside the beltway careerists. Either Trump was making noise for effect during the campaign, or when he started calling the business leaders he bragged about, they said no.
If Trump is reelected I’d like to see him succeed in draining the swamp, securing the border, returning the nation to energy independence, ending US involvement in the Ukraine proxy war with Russia, and putting in place trade and tax policies that will ensure domestic manufacturing supply chains are rebuilt. In my opinion to do this he will have a huge battle against special interests, the federal bureaucracy, and key politicians in both parties. To have a chance of being successful he will need to fill the 2000 or so positions he appoints in the bureaucracy with committed warriors with outstanding management skills so they can deal with the entrenched bureaucrats on a daily basis. My impression is you believe being a patriotic leader is enough, the ability and quality of the followers doesn’t matter.
We shall see.
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