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Then I’m a traitor too because I think he’s being a lousy CEO. Anyone with any sense knows that the new boss has to get rid of all the old employees hired under the previous boss. Their allegiance is elsewhere. I’ve worked at companies when new management comes in. It doesn’t take long for them to clean house.

Do you have any idea how many people work for the US government? The State department alone has 12K civil service employees (not counting many more than that out in the field), the DOJ has well over 100K employees... and there are many more departments.

You can't just fire everyone day one and expect the country to still function... you have to take a top down approach to get proper leadership reestablished and work from there. Further complicating things is the reality that all the top positions have to get confirmed by the Senate.

Obama had 8 years to fully corrupt the place... and the place already had decades of rot in it when he started.

Its going to take some time to drain that swamp.

Thank you for an adult perspective on this. Trump has been in office for 4 months and so far has only had 39 nominees confirmed by the Senate as the anti-Trump foot-dragging continues. You need to get the key undersecretaries and deputies in place before serious housecleaning of the rank and file can commence in earnest, because while the Cabinet members are in charge of overall policy it's the second and third-tier appointees who run the bureaucracy. That's why these are critical appointments.

The swamp draining will be in phases and we're still early in Phase I. We've waited decades, we can have the patience to see this done properly.