Wanted: Competent Staff in Trump’s Administration

By: Joe Mauricio

 

We read that the Trump administration has filled only 22 of 553 key positions that require Senate confirmation. This makes us worry about enough manpower to produce the same volume and standard of incompetence that we have come to expect so far.

Granted in the first few months the administration has produced an impressive amount of ineptitude with a very few people, like White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who on his worst day, can produce more errors than normal men on their best days. Trump’s campaign manager Kelly Anne Conway can flail her way through television confrontation 24/7, and still has stamina to lose the teletubbies on Saturday morning.

The White House staffing system is successfully answering the question, how many scorpion can you fit in a bottle? And, in general, the personal process has been so rigorous in its selection of inexperienced that those who were hired on the basis of more nepotism look like Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman, by comparison.

But still, I worry that the current pace of Trump administration is going to run out of failure. So far, we lived in a golden age of malfunction. Every major Trump initiative has been blocked or has collapsed, relationship with Congress has been disastrous, and President Trump’s approval ratings are at cataclysmic lows.

But, can this last? By midsummer, during the high vacation and indictment season, we could see empty hallways in the West Wing, and the disorienting incompetence shortage emanating from Washington.

The normal incompetent person flails and stammers, and is embarrassed about it all. But the true genius at incompetence like our president flails, and is too incompetent to recognize his own incompetence. He interprets his catastrophes for success and so accelerates his pace toward oblivion.

Those who ignore history are condemned to retweet it.

Trump’s greatest achievements are in the field of ignorance.

Up until this point, many always thought of ignorance as a void, absence of knowledge. But his ignorance is not just an absence, it is intricate and an entirely separate universe of negative information, a sort of fertile intellectual anti-matter with its own gravitational pull.

Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster. He promised a health care plan that would be unbelievable, beautiful, terrific, less expensive and much better insurance for everybody, but he is abysmal at delivering because the basic truth is that he is an effective politician who’s incompetent at governing.

It is sometimes said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Trump campaigns in braggadocio and governs in bombast.

As Ana Navarro, a GOP strategist, tweeted, “Donald Trump attracts the weirdest, shadiest, darkest people around him.”

And what we are seeing more clearly now is that he crafted an administration in his own image…narcissistic, vain, and dangerous.

To Trump, all the headwinds are the result of bad judges, biased reporters, and Democrats bent on undermining his presidency. But it’s clear, Trump’s biggest problem is none other than Donald Trump himself.

Unfortunately, the United States of America, has apparently willful sowing of confusion and outright burden, both of which hold potential dire consequences, a threat to the country’s security and to its most important alliances