No wonder White House disorganized

[struggle4progress]

By Bert Spector
February 21 at 7:00 AM

... Instead of a “fine-tuned machine,” however, the opening weeks of the Trump administration have revealed a White House that’s chaotic, disorganized and anything but efficient. Examples include rushed and poorly constructed executive orders, a dysfunctional national security team, and unclear and even contradictory messages emanating from multiple administrative spokesmen, which frequently clash with the tweets of the president himself.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) succinctly summed up the growing sentiment even some Republicans are feeling: “Nobody knows who’s in charge” ...

... for one thing, Trump wasn’t a genuine CEO. That is, he didn’t run a major public corporation with shareholders and a board of directors that could hold him to account. Instead, he was the head of a family-owned, private web of enterprises ...

Public corporations are companies that offer their stock to pretty much anyone via organized exchanges or by some over-the-counter mechanism. To protect investors, the government created the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which imposes an obligation of transparency on public corporations that does not apply to private businesses like the Trump Organization ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/21/trump-wasnt-a-real-ceo-no-wonder-his-white-house-is-disorganized/?utm_term=.817aaedbfaf7

[uponit7771]

1. TRMS 500 positions still open

[Ilsa]

9. And not because they haven't been approved

by oversight froup. 45 hasn't nominated anyone for those jobs.

[applegrove]

2. For the first time Trump has a boss: the American people.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. He is used to micro managing a few people that he trusts

(his kids, and Jared) and barking orders with no backtalk.
I think he really wanted a throne in the WH.

[applegrove]

4. I don't think he is a details guy. He's the big picture leader. Apparently when

he tried to manage one of his casinos himself it was awful for everybody.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I read a few books about him ( know they enemy)

and the problem with the casinos was that he micro-managed, and ordered every brain fart to be carried out, even if it made no sense at all in casino world and/or sane world.

Just like the Presidency, he figured he was smart enough to know everything, without being told, and screwed it up royally, then blamed the disaster on everyone else.
I am truly surprised he has not been killed by the mob.

[applegrove]

7. He is the poster boy for big picture thinkers being good at elections

but very incompetent/used when they get into power.

[yardwork]

11. Trump survives by making ever-bigger promises.

[TeamPooka]

6. When Ivana ran his company it was profitable. When Donald ran it, multiple bankruptcies. When Ivanka

ran it, it was profitable again.
Sense a pattern?

[yardwork]

12. Is there any evidence that Trump Org is ever profitable?

How would we know?

[moondust]

8. Exactly.

I heard Rick Stengel make this point on The Last Word last week and thought it explained a lot. Drumpf was basically czar of a family business who could do whatever he wanted and didn't have to answer to anybody. I suspect he did a lot of lying and cheating and possibly even used some mob tactics to get what he wanted in the sometimes shady world of business and nobody held him accountable. Now he's in the public sphere constantly lying like always only now everything he says and does is being scrutinized. He can't function like that.

"As such, 'nobody knows who’s in charge' may be the mantra for years to come."

[Buckeyeblue]

10. Agree completely

His presidency is a mess because he is a mess. He is not a problem solver. My guess is when his businesses run into problems, he either throws money at it, sues someone or files bankruptcy. Other than that, he builds big buildings and rents out space in them. Or builds luxury hotels in big cities. Once you get the capital, executing on these things is not rocket science.

One last point, because we've never seen his financials, we don't even know if he is good at what he does. My guess is the debt is sky high. He's just gotten good at keeping it moving around.

[Blue_Tires]

13. You know what pisses me off most of all?

If the media gave Trump this level of scrutiny BEFORE THE MOTHERFUCKING ELECTION, he loses in a landslide...

But all they cared about was ratings so they had to manufacture that bullshit "horse race"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. What else do you expect from a snot nosed trustafarian?