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  1. The seeds for the failure of Trump's presidency were planted before Trump was even sworn in, and he planted them himself. With his own hands, Trump sowed the seeds of ineptitude, indifference, and criminal incompetence, that have now defined his presidency. From The Guardian: Chris Christie volunteered himself for the job of running Trump's presidential transition team.  But when he went to see Trump about it, Trump said he didn’t want a presidential transition team. Why did anyone need to plan anything before he actually became president? It’s legally required, said Christie. Trump asked where the money was going to come from to pay for the transition team. Christie explained that Trump could either pay for it himself or take it out of campaign funds. Trump didn’t want to pay for it himself. He didn’t want to take it out of campaign funds, either, but he agreed, grudgingly, that Christie should go ahead and raise a separate fund to pay for his transition team. “But not too much!” he said. The transition team now moved into an office in downtown Washington DC, and went looking for people to occupy the top 500 jobs in the federal government. They needed to fill all the cabinet positions, of course, but also a whole bunch of others that no one in the Trump campaign even knew existed. The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my phucking money! What the phuck is this? Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my phucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain federal law to man-baby. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: phuck the law. I don’t give a phuck about the law. I want my phucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition. Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition. Bannon was finally able to convince man-baby why he needed a transition team. So Christie went back to preparing for a Trump administration. He tried to stay out of the news, but that proved difficult. From time to time, Trump would see something in the paper about Christie’s fundraising and become upset all over again. The money that people donated to his campaign Trump considered, effectively, his own money. Christie would eventually be fired by Jared Kushner. Kushner’s role in his sacking was confirmed to him by Steve Bannon. But it wasn’t just Christie who would be fired. It was the entire transition team – although no one ever told them so directly. As Nancy Cook reported in Politico, Bannon visited the transition headquarters a few days after he had given Christie the news, and made a show of tossing the work the people there had done for Trump into the bin. Trump was going to handle the transition more or less by himself. Not even Bannon thought this was a good idea. “I was phucking nervous as sh*t,” Bannon later told friends. “I go, ‘Holy phuck, this guy Trump doesn’t know anything. And he doesn’t give a sh*t.’”
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