The Washington Post - Trump demands subservience and gets incompetence

June 25 at 7:54 PM

 

The Trump administration, if you haven’t noticed, is undergoing one of its frequent paroxysms of incompetence.

 

On the border, the administration holds hundreds of migrant children in deplorable conditions: filthy, frightened and hungry.

 

The president ordered and then called off a massive immigration raid, and, in the middle of the chaos, the administration’s top border security official resigned Tuesday.

 

Overseas, the administration is stumbling toward war with Iran, ordering and then canceling an attack.

 

Iran on Tuesday said the White House is “afflicted by mental retardation,” and Trump responded by threatening Iran with “obliteration.”

 

Here in Washington, Trump just appointed a new press secretary for the third time and a White House communications director for the seventh time.

 

He refuses to say whether he has confidence in his FBI director, his third, and he’s publicly feuding with the Federal Reserve chairman he appointed over whether Trump can fire him.

 

Meantime, Trump is defying a Trump-appointed watchdog who called for the firing of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for illegal political activities, and he’s brushing off the latest credible accusation of sexual misconduct by saying the accuser is “not my type.” ...

 

The chaos takes on many forms, but most of it stems from a single cause: Trump’s determination to run the country like “The Apprentice.” ...