This piece is just one of those Holy Shit Artifacts that we will continue to unearth about Trumpistan. Basically, it's what we already know but in Technicolor. Trump hired awful, awful human beings who were - not coincidentally - completely unqualified to do the jobs he gave them. The only qualification to work in the Trump Administration was unqualified fealty to the person of Donald Trump. Expertise or relevant work experience was unnecessary. One detail stuck out to me:
McEntee’s underlings were, for the most part, comically inexperienced. He had staffed his office with very young Trump activists. He had hired his friends, and he had hired young women—as one senior official in the West Wing put it to me, “the most beautiful 21-year-old girls you could find, and guys who would be absolutely no threat to Johnny in going after those girls.”
There it is. Trumpism in all it's repellant glory. A cult of personality intended to squeeze as much benefits from government work - the people's work - as possible, especially gratuitous appeals to sexism. Nepotism, combined with cluelessness with a dollop of television ready attractiveness in women...it really is the apex of how fucking stupid Trumpism is.
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