If you’re having trouble keeping track of all the staffers leaving the Trump White House of late, you could certainly be forgiven. A recent analysis by the Brookings Institution found that Donald Trump’s team has had a record number of departures, with a turnover rate twice as high as that of the Reagan administration.
Trump himself is more sanguine. “People will always come & go … ” he tweeted this week, noting: “I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection).”
He added later: “So many people want to come in. I have a choice of anybody. I could take any position in the White House and I’ll have a choice of the 10 top people having to do with that position – everybody wants to be there.”
Shortly after that, the White House announced the economic adviser Gary Cohn was resigning, the latest in a list of high-profile departures.
6 March 2018 Cohn probably lasted longer than anyone could have reasonably expected. In a White House aggressively staffed with family members and novice sycophants, the former Goldman Sachs No 2 was a rare, highly experienced professional. He was also a registered Democrat in an administration where bipartisanship has never been a particularly privileged part of the program. Cohn’s globalist leanings were always out of whack with Trump’s brand of economic protectionism, and he reportedly considered the president “dumb as shit”, according to the journalist Michael Wolff in his book Fire and Fury. Trump’s plan for tariffs on steel and aluminum were reportedly the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Source:
theguardian
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