The Presidency in the US has never been, in my experience, a one man show. The knowledge spectrum needed is wide; too wide for a single person. With the twin problems of wealth concentration and climate change lurking in the background, a not-very-bright real estate agent and TV personality could not hope to be able to run a country like the US all by himself. But Trump did not have a team for the White House ready. There were plenty of eggheads in the GOP who would have been willing to help, in the first trump administration, but after how badly Anthony Fauci was treated by the MAGA, and GOP, generally, no capable person was willing to take any responsibility, especially in the area of health. Let's face it; the people trump knows are quacks, and wall street types—and pretty shady ones, too—and Steve Bannon types (or Elon Musk types) who have more ideas about how to subvert government bureaucracy than about how to repair it. Public health, especially, requires a certain mindset that the friends of robber barons are unlikely to have. Your Doctor Oz, and other dispensers of TV medical advice, are probably not sufficiently weird to get Trump's approval.
Sadly, MAGA could never have been expected to put together an administration that could get anything right; but they did not want to get anything right. They wanted an agent for their anarchy (and racism, and Xenophobia). It was a very short-term objective.
In other news today, the courts are getting in the way of allowing the super-grifting that trump wants to do quickly, before he gets too sick for the Oval Office. (Or too sleepy.) So any day now he's likely to issue a proclamation that all courts are to be shut down, since they're too hung up on laws and stuff.
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