[meadsjn]

I think Trump was a bit naive back then. He gave a lot of swamp dwellers the benefit of the doubt, thinking they would come on board.

He has learned his lesson.

Yeah. If I was as naïve as that Trump fellow, I probably would have wasted my fortunes down to 11 Billion, and had to get some thankless government job for One Dollar per quarter.

Thank goodness, I'm smarter than that.

[aquila48]

Politically he was naive.

Look at the atrocious appointments he made early on...

Sessions, Priebus, Bannon, Scaramucci, Mattis, Rex Tillerson... People that stabbed him in the back.

He has done a much better job with personnel later on.

BTW - I like Trump a lot, but reality is reality. I got a feeling he himself would agree that his early picks were a disaster - they had no loyalty to him and leaked like sieves.

You can pretend otherwise, but facts are facts.