It’s becoming obvious all these GOPe careerist types view POTUS as a short timer and have little interest in investing in the MAGA agenda. Frankly, if Ayers is giving 3 months notice after he was offered a plum assignment I would help him pack his bags now. He’s pretty much flipping the bird at the President.
I agree. I did not add that I would have just asked Pence to ask Ayers how soon he could clean out his desk. Point is, if I were POTUS, Ayers does not work for me but Pence does.
I wonder out loud if Trump really knows how to delegate? He has been so long running his show and being accountable for it al it seems that he tries to do too much on his own maybe?
It is almost impossible to delegate and have to also enforce your delegation very often. You will be in deep trouble very soon if you don’t make some examples out of failures to comply and become successful in turning the ship of insubordination around. Problem is, with Trump, most of his subordinates seem to be passively resisting him. They ignore him or slow walk his orders hoping he will forget and go on to something else.
Mattis and Admiral Zunkuft’s resistance and comments on trannies in the military come to mind in the resistance to orders. Zunkuft was downright insolent and insubordinate and if he had been working for me I’d have had Mattis cashier him so fast ti would have made his head spin round three times. I see Zunkuft is gone now after a regular 4 year rotation. I would hope Mattis would understand he would be next if he didn’t get his officers in line. Neat thing about the military is that there is always a succession plan ready and waiting since they plan on people needing to be replaced unexpectedly. Another good thing about cashiering high ups is it hurts their pride and ego. You’d like for a carrot to work in getting people to do things but the stick works much better in a pinch and for people who have what they want. A club works even better. Leaving for cause really hurts their egos and post career opportunities.
You can’t discipline everyone. Major changes in organizations that are comfortable with the status quo are nearly impossible without wholesale house cleaning.