CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In his first full cabinet meeting last June, President Trump invited a chorus of gushing praise from his top aides by boasting that he had assembled a ‘phenomenal team of people, a great group of talent.’
But in the nine months since then, Mr. Trump has fired or forced out a half-dozen of the ‘incredible, talented’ people in the Cabinet Room that day: his secretaries of state and health, along with his chief strategist, his chief of staff, his top economic aide and his press secretary.
And the purge at the top may not be over. Mr. Trump, who is famously fickle, appears to have soured on additional members of his senior leadership team — and his frequent mulling about making changes has some people around him convinced that he could act soon… Mr. Trump could act as early as Friday [3-17-18] to remove one or more of them, though the president is known to enjoy keeping people off kilter.”
–Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman, “‘There Will Always Be Change,’ Trump Says as More Personnel Shake-Ups Loom,” New York Times online, Mar. 15, 2018