Trump in Two Years: Constant Lies, Not the Best Staff, Turmoil and Chaos His Middle Name

Here Today Gone Tomorrow: Trump’s M.O.

(Not the best he promised — far from it)

Short reminder on Trump's broken pledge to the people:

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From CNN – this report was on the first 18 months of the Trump presidency:

Those months have repeatedly has revealed the fallacy of his “best people will be hired to work for the American people” pledge. A myriad number of top members of his Cabinet and senior staff have departed, many, if not most, often under suspicious circumstances (refer to list above).

Some 57% of Trump's so-called “best people” ever team left the White House in just its first year and a half, according to statistics maintained by Brookings Institute. 

That nearly equals the turnover among top staffers for the entire first terms of Barack Obama (71% turnover), George W. Bush (63%), Bill Clinton (74%) and George H.W. Bush (66%).

Why? Maybe based on this: The arrogant one-man show attitude of Trump, remember this from him to Fox News' Laura Ingraham in November 2017:  

“The one that matters is me. I'm the only one that matters. Because when it comes to it, that's what the policy is going to be.”

What that view overlooks is that running the federal government is not the same thing as running a business. Trump the businessman made a career out of relying only on himself and a very tight knit group of family and hangers-on, e.g., his daughter (Ivanka Trump-Kushner and her husband Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner) both work for him in the White House, and both have met with far less success.

Whether Trump is playing the long game – and that his consolidation of power will, in the end, create major wins for the country – remains a topic of some debate.

What is beyond argument is this: His first 18 months in office makes it clear that his plan to bring together “the best and most serious people ever” has failed miserably.

My 2 cents: How can the public tolerate the constant Trump lies? Like telling the troops and public that when he signed the 2018 defense authorization bill is included a pay raise for the military - for the first time in 10 years - he said. Cite:  — Trump on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in remarks at the White House.

FYI: Our military has had pay increases every fiscal year since 1975, except 1983 see the chart here. Note: His statement was rated pants on fire.

What a terrible horrible man - great snake oil con artist, however, but not much else.

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