TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mr. Trump burns through staff faster than any president has in modern times. He has had four chiefs of staff, four national security advisers and four press secretaries in less than four years…
Mr. Trump casts that as a failing of his former aides, not him. In looking back at what he would have done differently, he identified personnel. ‘I think it’s mostly people. I wouldn’t have used certain people,’ he said. ‘You have people that sometimes you think they’re going to be great and they turn out to be terrible, and sometimes you think they’re going to be terrible and they turn out to be good.'”
-Peter Baker, “Instead of Evolving as President, Trump Has Bent the Job to His Will,” nytimes.com, Aug. 27, 2020