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  • 3 - Administration

  • from Part I - Trump’s Tribe
  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Enablers
    Published online:
    03 September 2021
    Print publication:
    19 August 2021, pp 54-70

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 traces the nature and trajectory of the Trump administration – especially given he was a president who came into office without any political, government, or military experience whatsoever. While for a time there were several “adults in the room,” for example Secretary of Defense James Mattis, in relatively short order they disappeared from the administration. This left the federal government in the hands effectively of only those who were reliable and relentless Trump loyalists. Trump’s extraordinary need for, insistence on, almost slavish personal and political loyalty meant that turnover in the administration was inordinately high which, among other things, explains why it was so poorly equipped to cope with the pandemic.