I like Trump. Will probably vote for him. But there is no way to deny that his choice in personnel is questionable at best. Trump wants everyone to 'like' him. So he likes to choose people who hate him as employees. He tries to change their minds about him. This was a disastrous trait/habit in his first term. We can only hope he is not so naïve this time around.
90% of people who have worked for Trump, people Trump chose to work for him, wound up backstabbing him. That is an amazing coincidence. Trump likes to pick people who hate him. Then he tries to 'convert' them. It doesn't work like that.
Nope.
If you've read at least some of Trump's books, or watched enough of his interviews, you'll know he's a hyuuge fan of that grinning, gladhanding huckster Norman Vincent Peale. Author of the "The power of positive thinking."
Trump, like all the rest of the people fooled by that con-man Peale, thinks "positive thinking" works just as magically on people as Norm Peale claimed it did.
NEWSFLASH: it doesn't. Each person has their own free will, their own beliefs, their own worldviews. Picking people whose views do not align with yours isn't going to produce the results you envisioned, but will instead produce the results of the people you chose to implement them.
That Trump (somehow) became immensely wealthy in spite of his fealty towards the failed views of an apostate minister is a testimony to Trump.
That Trump still BELIEVES in Norm Vincent's humanistic, utopian views (I fear he's too old to change now) is also an equal condemnation.
Pray for Wisdom and Discernment to be pumped into Trump from Above.
It's our best hope.