Funny how no one ever blames Trump himself. Its always “his advisors”. The man has been in business for 50 years. Where does the buck ultimately stop?
It stops with Trump. The man has never been an insider politician and didn't know how deep the Deep State goes.
Personally, I don't want Trump to run in 2024. His baggage is profound and the MSM will bring it up to the point of nausea. I believe DeSantis is a better candidate, providing there are no underlying scandals.
The following were his choices alone:
Michael Cohen - his personal attorney . A complete sleazeball.
Omarossa Manigaut Newman - he brought to the WH. What was her competence?
Paul Manafort - campaign chairman.
Chris Christie - head of his transition. Did not perform this very critical job. There was no personnel or transition plan in place on election day. Trump had to scramble to find people to fill key jobs for months after inauguration.
The following are the most critical appointments for a new administration. If Trump had done any preparation for assuming the office of President he should have completely vetted and spent considerable time with each of them before nominating them. All were failures.
White House Chief of Staff - Reince Priebus
Attorney General - Jeff Sessions
Secretary of State - Rex Tillerson
Secretary of Defense - James Mattis
Some argue Mitch McConnell was controlling who he could appoint, for every single office. If that is the case, with all of his appointment, he should not be president again. If he allowed McConnell to control who he appointed to office, why won’t that happen again in a new administration? If the president cannot assemble a competent and loyal team to carry out his agenda in the entrenched bureaucracy, he cannot be successful.
The truth is any leader of an organization owns his appointments. They accept accountability for the successes and failures of the executives they appoint — they own the results. CEO’s consult with the board of directors, before they promote or appoint senior executives but in the final analysis the CEO makes the appointment and is accountable for the performance. We the people elected Trump and if he made bad choices, and those choices sabotaged his presidency, we should consider his failing before handing him another term.
Trump also had a bad habit of going to the media and publicly trashing the people he appointed to office. What competent and capable person with a great career record wants to work for someone who publicly berates and trashes the people working for him? This is a character trait of Trump which works against attracting excellent people.
Finally, if Mitch was really pulling the strings with Trump’s appointments, Trump could have called his bluff and gone to the American people. If Trump wanted to appoint someone and Mitch said no, he could have told Mitch he was going to use the bully pulpit with the American people to make his case publicly. If the candidate was an able, honest, and respected person, Mitch would have backed down. One would think a man who would publicly trash Rex Tillerson and James Mattis while they worked for him would not have a problem going to the people with an appointment Mitch McConnell opposed.
Trump’s behavior was not always that of an evolved leader. If given a choice today in a 2024 primary between Trump and DeSantis, I would vote for DeSantis. He is a better leader and just as willing to take on the media and take tough action in governing. From what I can see, DeSantis takes full ownership for the performance of his team and doesn’t trash his people in public when things go wrong.
With the Trump cultists, anywhere other than with Trump himself.
Or maybe, that there really isn’t any more good men with moral convictions to do the right thing anymore. Trump has no allies in government, he’s picking apples from a pile of sh-t.
LOL. Several months ago, I posted that the “buck stops here” regarding personnel decisions by a President. Several “superior intellect” FReepers made every excuse possible for why that did not apply to President Trump including Deep State, RINOs in the Senate, Federalist Society, blah, blah. There was an excuse for it all.
Indeed.
People name-calling “Never-Trump trolls” honestly never, ever question Trump. Hence I call them EverTrumpers. Nothing he does is wrong to them. He is defended endlessly as if he is perfect.
It’s not so much an issue with Trump, as with those who are willing to jump over the ledge with him, just because he says so.
It’s always someone else’s fault. Including Never-Trumpers. It’s childish.
The man is supposed to be a brilliant businessman, who can handle all this stuff (I think he can, but he needs work when it comes to gov). But when he fails suddenly The finger-pointing starts.