Incompetence Has Consequences

There are rumors that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is planning to change the illustration next to the word incompetent to a group photo of the Trump White House staff with the president front and center.

Day after day, Trump, and his staff prove that they were not even near ready for prime time. Since their first day at the White House, it has been chaos. It started with the insistence that the Trump inauguration crowd on the Mall was the largest in history. That despite photographic and eyewitness evidence that it wasn't even the largest crowd of the decade. It has been mostly downhill since then.

While the crowd size issue had no real consequences except to show Trump as delusional and a liar, the firing of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was a real problem. The numerous stories about that firing again proved that this team has no clue how to run an administration or to communicate with the media and the public. The drama and confusion have continued on an almost daily basis. No two people in the White House have the same story on almost any situation or event. 

For someone supposedly an expert in PR and self-promotion, Trump and his staff have been amazingly out of touch. There are no good answers to the reasons for this. They are either too arrogant to care, too out of touch to know better or too stupid do their jobs. None is a good option. 

Trump has absolutely no chance to cram what should have been 70 years of knowledge into his inattentive and self-centered brain. His only chance to right this sinking ship is to hire competent staffers, listen to them and stay on script. No more midnight Tweets, no more blatant lies that are easily refuted, no more "alternative facts", less paranoia. In simple words, act like an adult, act like a president with a professional staff.

I am not a Trump fan and while I don't want him to be able to advance his agenda, I also don't want him to fail so completely that it harms the country. I want the citizens of the country and the world to still have trust and respect for the US government.  

My guess is that if we had a few weeks of calm at the White House, the media and the public would give Trump a second chance. It would take time and discipline and some behavioral changes. I will never agree with most of Trump's platform, but I take no pleasure in seeing the office brought down. I want to get rid of Trump via the 2020 elections, not a constitutional crisis and impeachment. 

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