re: #29 jaunte

Trump himself might be incompetent, but he has a cadre who also aren’t filling those positions.

I suspect, in addition to the stupid component, there’s an aspect of this that has to do with (1) keeping people out of deliberations and decision-making because more than one of them has an agenda, (2) not expanding the pool of people advising the president, (3) keeping information in a small numbers of hands because they don’t want plans to leak.

(2) should be given especially weight, since 45 seems to echo whoever he talks to and whatever he picks up from sources he likes, and repeat what gets him praise. I find myself wondering how much he’s being managed, and by whom.