{"id":136867,"date":"2018-07-09T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/the-hands-on-president.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:12:33","slug":"the-hands-on-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/the-hands-on-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hands-On President"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Apologies to anyone for whom the the thought of the President laying hands on anyone causes a shudder.)<\/p>\n

Trump has essentially turned the White House and senor administration into a personally-run small business, in a way that hasn't been seen since early 19th Century (at a time when the US was a fringe government on the edge of the wilderness, not a focal point of global economic and military strength). All decision-making roads lead directly through Trump; all policies are expressions of his own zany whimsy on any given day. There is no institutional continuity, no delegation, no barrier, no inertia. Trump simply marginalizes, then fires, anyone who gets in the way of his doing his own thing. He's running the government the way he did his businesses.<\/p>\n

Which some people probably sounds like a great idea, except for when you look at how Trump's businesses have actually done, versus the personal wealth that Trump has managed to accumulate on the backs of business partners, subcontractors, banks, bankruptcy courts, and anyone else who's been willing to give him money or shelter him from the consequences of his actions.<\/p>\n

A 61% turnover rate in your organization is a sign that you're a crappy manager. Unfortunately, there's nobody left but the US voter to pass that message on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nJohn Kelly, Scott Pruitt, and the Epic Turnover of the Trump Administration | The New Yorker<\/a><\/span>
\nWhat does the endless death watch for the President’s chief of staff tell us about the worst-run White House of modern times?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(Apologies to anyone for whom the the thought of the President laying hands on anyone causes a shudder.) 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