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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,098 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:27 PM Feb 2017

A White House where no one is in charge

In early January, House Speaker Paul Ryan met on the issue of tax reform with a delegation from the president-elect. Attending were future chief strategist and senior counselor Stephen K. Bannon, future chief of staff Reince Priebus, future senior adviser Jared Kushner, future counselor Kellyanne Conway and future senior policy adviser Stephen Miller. As the meeting began, Ryan pointedly asked, “Who’s in charge?”

Silence.

It is still the right question. Former officials with deep knowledge of the presidency describe Donald Trump’s White House staff as top-heavy, with five or six power centers and little vertical structure. “The desire to be a big shot is overrunning any sense of team,” says one experienced Republican. “This will cause terrible dysfunction, distraction, disloyalty and leaks.”

Trump has run a family business but never a large organization. Nor has he seen such an organization as an employee. “Trump,” says another former official, “is ill-suited to appreciate the importance of a coherent chain of command and decision-making process. On the contrary, his instincts run instead toward multiple mini power centers, which rewards competing aggressively for Trump’s favor.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-white-house-where-no-one-is-in-charge/2017/02/13/7718a5ec-f217-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?utm_term=.b1ebb7474866&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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A White House where no one is in charge (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
Time for Trump to act Timmygoat Feb 2017 #1
Welcome to DU, Timmy. murielm99 Feb 2017 #2
That's by design Blue_Tires Feb 2017 #3

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
1. Time for Trump to act
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:20 PM
Feb 2017

Now that Russia has launched a missile in spite of agreements made to end the cold war, will Trump, as Spicer has said 'Get tough
on Russia. Your move Mr Trump!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. That's by design
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:38 PM
Feb 2017

if nobody is officially in charge and there's no hierarchy, then everybody can keep endlessly passing the blame off on each other...

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