Amateur hour at the Trump White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Nearly everyone remembers the old cliché: If you can’t trust someone to get the little things right, how can you ever count on them to do the big things?

President Donald Trump had better hope that bromide, invoked everywhere from youth sports teams to sales training sessions, doesn’t apply to him.

As his presidency lurches toward a climactic judgment on Nov. 3, the little things lately have rarely gone more pervasively or embarrassingly wrong — at a time when public confidence in Trump’s handling of the big things is hardly robust.

The initial reaction might be, So what’s new here? But recent days, in the wake of Trump being stricken with coronavirus, have highlighted just how the lurching improvisation that is a familiar phenomenon around Trump has entered a different phase. The professionals around the president aren’t merely laboring to contain and channel the disruptive politician they work for. Very often they are amplifying the chaos.

That’s in part because, as his first term comes to a close, the professionals around Trump are not all that professional. It is now the exception in key staff and Cabinet posts to have people whose experience would be commensurate with that of people who have typically held those jobs in previous administrations of both parties. This major weakness has been revealing itself in a barrage of minor errors that summon Casey Stengel’s incredulous question about the 1962 New York Mets: Can’t anybody here play this game?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/amateur-hour-trump-white-house-110115806.html

[elleng]

1. 'the professionals around Trump are not all that professional,'

I'LL say!!!

[RazzleCat]

2. This is so important

The endless typos, not just from the tweeter in chief, but on official documents. The in ability to pronounce names, the total lack of any form of quality control from the entire administration is a public embarrassment. All administrations have public goofs, but this one it's just another Tuesday. I can think of no other administration in my life time that has so consistently made so many simple mistakes. GW was not eloquent at all, but you know his office would have never sent out any document with the stupid typo's we see now. This is the White House, not a blog, I expect perfection in the execution of documents, even when I hate what the documents are.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. The 7th graders at

St. Swithin's School for the Disadvantaged would probably do a better job than many of those currently working for this administration.