The Trump strategy for success? Fire everyone.
Despite what you may learn watching “The Apprentice,” you can’t just fire your way to success.
.. Well, they’ll probably be different generals, to be honest with you,” Trump retorted, later adding that current personnel have led to “the worst and you could even say the dumbest foreign policy.”
At no point did Trump provide guidance on what he’d be looking for in new military advisers — other than, of course, a public endorsement of Trump — or what his or their secret master plan for defeating the Islamic State should look like... Just a few weeks earlier, Trump suggested he might soon be cleaning house in the country’s intelligence agencies, too. On Fox News, he said he didn’t trust the U.S. intelligence community and planned not to use “the people that are sort of your standards.”It’s not just the national security apparatus that deserves to be purged, in Trump’s view. As president, he would also cleanse the entire executive branch of career civil servants appointed during President Obama’s tenure.