[Dahoser]

That’s the thing that keeps me up nights. I don’t know who has Trump’s ear enough to avoid further disasters in key spots. Reagan had his kitchen cabinet made up of loyalists from California like Ed Meese who took care of a lot of this. He trusted them and they watched out for him. Trump needs a kitchen cabinet of his own, but it has to be picked by someone else or it’s just the same problem with the kitchen cabinet.

The thing about a kitchen cabinet is that it stays in the kitchen meaning in the background. I think a lot of the people who may have been part of Trump’s kitchen cabinet and been really helpful over the long haul like Steve Bannon were too visible and that made it easy for them to be picked off by the bad elements led by that weasel Mike Pence who saw how effective his lies about General Flynn were in undermining Trump.

[dpetty121263]

I saw right away that right away with Trump, I suspect that has not changed. What keeps me up at night is the idea Big Mike becoming President..

[Alberta's Child]

The biggest problem with an outsider like Trump is that the "kitchen cabinet" model doesn't work for a guy who is not a long-time politician. Most of his peers and associates prior to his presidential campaign either: (1) were extremely successful men outside politics who had no interest in leaving their successful careers to help him; or (2) were bottom-feeding grifters who you would never want in government anyway.

Item (2) is important. I've said for years that if Trump was left to his own devices, he probably would have selected Michael Cohen as his nominee for the U.S. Attorney General post.