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I've come across an article on The Atlantic that analyses Trump's personality:
Many questions have arisen about Trump during this campaign season—about his platform, his knowledge of issues, his inflammatory language, his level of comfort with political violence. This article touches on some of that. But its central aim is to create a psychological portrait of the man. Who is he, really? How does his mind work? How might he go about making decisions in office, were he to become president? And what does all that suggest about the sort of president he'd be?
It's a long, but very interesting read.
Here's a list of sentences the article itself highlights:
Combined with a gift for humor, anger lies at the heart of Trump's charisma.
Trump appeals to an ancient fear of contagion, which analogizes out-groups to parasites and poisons.
Narcissism in presidents is a double-edged sword. It is associated with historians' ratings of "greatness"—but also with impeachment resolutions.
Andrew Jackson displayed many of the same psychological qualities that we see in Trump.
Trump has never forgotten the lesson from his father: The world is a dangerous place. You have to be ready to fight.
And the final paragraph summarizes:
Who, really, is Donald Trump? What's behind the actor's mask? I can discern little more than narcissistic motivations and a complementary personal narrative about winning at any cost. It is as if Trump has invested so much of himself in developing and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. It is always Donald Trump playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but never knowing why.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:16PM
Priebus may be establishment, but he's got no relevant experience for the job. He's never held office, he's never worked in the whitehouse. Chief of staff is the gatekeeper to the president. Its requires a depth of knowledge and experience to triage events on the fly and determine which ones to bump up to the pres, which ones to delegate within the administration and which ones to kick over to other agencies. There has never been a successful chief of staff without either previous whitehouse or congressional experience. Priebus would be great at managing relations with congress because of the RNC. But that's the limit of his credentials.
There's his earlier work with the Wisconsin state legislature and his work in a law firm. Not seeing it.
Bannon may have been given a made-up position in order to throw a bone to the alt-white. Or maybe it is legit. Whatever it is we have no idea what the job actually requires so who knows if he's qualified for it or not. But even before breitbart the guy was in entertainment out in hollywood, so he's no policy guy.
Remarkably weak rationalization. Bannon did similar work for Trump prior to the election and that apparently worked out.
Even with the lobbyists, the WSJ is reporting that Trump and his transition team had no idea they would have to fully staff the west wing by inauguration day. How could they be so uninformed? That's one of those stories that almost can't be believed, except its Trump...
And you knew that how? They have two months to go, it's not the end of the world that they're slightly behind.
Also, he seems to think he's going to be able to fly home for the weekends, to NYC or Miami. Which is exactly in line with an absurdist reality show perspective.
So? The point of this transition is in large part to learn these things. Why shouldn't he have that expectation, especially prior to having any need to consider it for real? One doesn't expect people who have lived their entire lives in a city to understand how to approach (answer: you don't) a wild American bison, for example. It's when they have appropriate learning opportunities (such as seeing numerous warning signs to not approach wildlife and bison in particular), that expectations are appropriate.
Sure, there's going to be exciting times for the relatively inexperienced crew that Trump will have access to. But your arguments are ridiculous even given that legitimate concern.