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(1) Obama's staff didn't want to get on his bad side, but all respected him, almost to a fault. They trusted his judgment. They liked him.
(2) Trump's staff (from my conversations with a few) don't like him. Many don't seem to respect him, though some do. Some feel bad for him.
(3) The lack of respect shown to @realDonaldTrump by his senior staff at times (through leaks, etc.) is real, damaging, and inevitable.
(4) Many senior Trump folks want him to succeed, but fear he doesn't have the capacity to. Fairly unprecedented.
Okay, so the people closest to Donald Trump don't seem to like him (which isn't necessarily a huge deal) but they also don't respect him. And you can tell, because they all keep tripping over each other to tell the press how fucked up things are in the White House. That report from the New York Times included this nugget:
Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit.
How little respect do you have to have for your boss to tell a reporter that things are so bad that no one even knows where the fucking light switches are. No one who enjoyed their job would tell that anaecdote. No, that's a middle finger in anecdote form. And if that wasn't damning enough, the Huffington Post has this damning story that reveals a lot about a so-called business genius:
President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?So he made a call ― except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.Trump was not thrilled with that response ― but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings.
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