Home Alone in the Trump Administration

"Trump seems to have lost interest in the nomination process after making his cabinet and Supreme Court picks.  Now, he’s trying to pass off his inattention as some kind of plan. A story about Trump’s management style in Politico Magazine makes for nerve-racking reading: As his business was going bust in the 90s, he didn’t even have a chief financial officer — his lenders forced him to appoint one He promised a management mind-set “to make this country great again.” First he needs managers.None of this is surprising to people familiar with Mr. Trump’s managerial style, a kind of mom-and-pop approach involving a tiny knot of family members and loyalists that is poorly suited to a federal government with three million employees around the world.  “In many cases, we don’t want to fill those jobs,” he said on Fox News this week. “What do all these people do? You don’t need all those jobs.”