Trump is a clown -of course. His administration lost all credibility because his picks for the plum insider spots at the highest levels of the White House were actually working against him - that and he pretty much turned over his presidency to Dr. Fauci, Mike Pence and some old lady festooned in scarves. (IMO)
Trump isn’t a mind reader. How is to know people like Mattis would violate the oaths of office they swore to execute?
If there is anybody here being beclowned it is us: GOP voters. We know exactly who and what Lindsay Graham, China Mith and John Cornyn are. Yet we still reelect them and send them back to the swamp where they betray this nation.
His supposed expertise was ALL ABOUT selecting good people. He was sold as some kind of billionaire genius who could get the right people in the right places.
Pardon me if I mock folks who don’t realize that once even the people a leader hires mock and back stab them it means one of two things: they are an idiot for selecting bad people, or they selected good people who decided the leader was a lying idiot. Sad, as I really liked several of Trump’s policy positions (China and Islam as existential enemies, getting manufacturing back, and controlling our borders). But when you hire known twits like Sessions, or when even Federalist SCOTUS members slap you down, you have problems way beyond a bunch of DUmmies in Congress or hostile media.