Trump had incredible accomplishments, and far exceeded expectations, but from Fauci to Scaramucci (and I can name 50 others), he has a soft spot for self promoting blohards instead “right hand men”.
Everybody in the Obama Whitehouse was a “right hand man”, a “true believer” and “Mission over self” types that make boring conversation while churning out endless regulations, but will never stab you in the back (or front).
By the end, Trump had mission guys/gals in place (though he should have roasted Fauci for his support of GOF & the NIH funding Wuhan IofV by April 30, 2020 when all of that was known by then), but it was too late because he had already lost the women vote from the 3 years of endless fake drama.
It is undeniable that Trump’s major weakness was in his selection of people to surround him on the advice of others which he depended.
People like Wray, Barr, and Sessions are evidence of that. But the selection process of who you surround yourself with is an entirely different process as a politician than it is as as a businessman.
He had to depend on politicians for many of those selections, and they too often failed him and not only served him poorly, but deliberately undercut them.
But Trump is no big, dumb, idiot.
He may have had failings as all of us do, including you and me, but being a dumb idiot was not one of them.
I simply take exception with that characterization.
“.....but it was too late because he had already lost the women vote from the 3 years of endless fake drama.”
Except his share of women’s vote actually increased in the 2020 election. In fact Trump increased his vote totals from women, Hispanics and blacks.
www.wsws.org
2020 election results explode the identity politics narrative - World Socialist Web Site