Yes, true. Trump hired the treacherous Sessions, who almost strangled his Presidency at birth. He hired people like Bolton and McMaster.
I think its partially his temperament, but it also proves that most Presidents must rely on the DC Swamp and Machine to fill the thousands of jobs, even top ones. Trump is on his own, and has learned the swamp-machine candidates will stab him in the back at every turn.
Even those of us paying attention fail to realize how much the deep-state and permanent bureaucracy really runs things in the USA.
“Even those of us paying attention fail to realize how much the deep-state and permanent bureaucracy really runs things in the USA. “
.... if this is the case, and it looks increasingly so, it is time for a complete purge of the Federal Government. We can label it a Constitutional Reset.