Annnnd another.
How many resignations, replacements, and firings are we at now?
He hires the very best, folks! The VERY best! Fires the very best, too, sometimes they leave, but he hires the very best, even if they end up leaving, whether it's through leaving or getting fired, they're the best!
This would be the 25th, actually, if I've been keeping tabs right. 25th, over just a year and a half.
In this case, there's been some reporting that Bolton may have actually gotten Trump to fire him. This is more of a 'swamp purging the weak' sort of situation.
The face he's making in that picture says it all. 'Welp...'
I think everyone can panic if Bolton is pulling a Dick Cheney...
Out of curiosity, what was the comparable turnover rate during the Obama presidency's first term?
Even I feel uncomfortable about all of the firings.
Technically the article says.
""After two full years, President Obama was at 24 percent and President Bush was at 33 percent,""
I read somewhere that the only President with a higher turnover in the first year (at least since WW2) was LBJ, and that came primarily from cleaning house after Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment. LBJ didn't have a "traditional" transition into the Oval Office and had to do his appointments in a more hot-swap fashion than normal.
So Trump is pretty much without precedent. He hires "the best" people, and then nearly half of them quit or need to be fired.
Er, I think you mean Ford. LBJ came to fill in after Kennedy's assassination in '63.
Yes, that's correct, I was trying to refer to Ford's term. While trying to find out which President took over from Nixon, I misread Wikipedia and read/clicked on the "Suceeded by" link for Nixon's term as vice-president under Eisenhower, not his term as President. Whoops.
My history classes were more concerned with notable Canadian Prime Ministers to bother teaching us the complete record of Presidents for another country; I only know the Presidents prior to Reagan by particular news/historical events tied to them.
Whichever Democrat comes after Trump is likely going to want to purge government of his appointees, and with very good reason.
If my history class was anything to go by you learned that John A MacDonald had a drinking problem, William Laurier got to be Canada's second Prime Minister, and the King-Byng scandal and that was it.
If we're talking about what I remember from my history/social studies classes, yeah, that's about right.
Also, Pierre Trudeau was a major sex symbol in his prime. My social studies teacher in high school grew up in Quebec in that era and related to us how she and all her friends fantasized about having sex with him the way other girls elsewhere fantasized about banging rock stars and movie stars.
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