Good observation. I don’t know who is advising Trump. As you say, he’s not an insider and doesn’t have these contacts, and with his major money-making job being “TV celebrity,” he’s playing in a whole different ballgame.
That said, I honestly think he’s rising to the challenge and really is going to get good people to help him. I didn’t like him but I voted for him, and the reason I didn’t like him was that he never seemed to have a program or play well with others. But I sure wasn’t going to vote for Hillary!
However, I think he’s been doing a great job and I just wish the US had seen this Trump during the campaign.
Aggghhh!!!
I for some time thought that was just a leftist farce of a talking point, but enough Trump supporters and many more of his Pub detractors on the individual citizen level say that also, that I think this may have been the weakest part of Trump's campaign.
Not, mind you, that Trump did not have a program. As Rush, and others, have pointed out, Trump built more of a detailed "program" (to use your word), readily available to any citizen with an Internet connection, with his position papers, than any other Presidential candidate in recent memory. But... Somehow those position papers did not get much emphasis.
Toward the end of the campaign, Trump did espouse his "1st 100 Days" plan, but, even that was rather distilled down to the basic ideas, so as to fit into rally speeches easily.
Every person I forwarded Trump position papers to (with the exception of one die hard lib) found much to agree with. IMO, Trump would have won the popular vote, and would have had much more solid victories in several "close" states, if Trump had enlisted his supporters to get those position papers to another 20-30 million voters.
BTW, I should add that I too thought that The Donald had serious liabilities as a candidate. But, it was evident he’d really “tapped into a vein”, and those position papers, for the most part, sold me.