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3 - Administration

from Part I - Trump’s Tribe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

Barbara Kellerman
Barbara Kellerman
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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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.

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AdministrationTrump“Adults in the Room,” LoyaltySubservienceTurnover
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The Enablers
How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America
 , pp. 54 - 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Administration
  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Enablers
  • Online publication: 03 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974417.004
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  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Enablers
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  • Administration
  • Barbara Kellerman, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Enablers
  • Online publication: 03 September 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108974417.004
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