General Discussion

the replacement is usually even worse. Trump selects people who wouldn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of getting an important government position in a normal administration, and they know it. They are mediocre at best, and they must be painfully aware that without Trump they would be handling slip and fall cases from their seedy law office in the basement of a nail salon in Albuquerque or managing a 7-11 in the outskirts of Dubuque or hosting a weekend talk show on Fox. But Trump finds them, notices that they would look good on TV, and offers them a seat next to his Throne of Power as long as they agree to sell him every shred of integrity they might have ever possessed. Trump is an idiot but he does have this one skill of finding pathetic people and elevating and empowering them to do whatever he wants - at least until they either embarrass him or get too uppity.