President Donald Trump's decision to serve as his own chief of staff and communications director has exasperated White House staffers struggling to keep up amidst chaos of staffing failures, Axios reported Saturday.
Axios interviewed a senior administration official described as actually liking President Trump.
“No single individual in history has been able to direct an entire news cycle on a whim, and he's using that power at his sole discretion, with the [White House] policy, press, and comms teams just along for the ride," the official argued. "Both at a policy level or a comms level, Trump is doing what he wants, when he wants, how he wants."
"The [White House] staff I talk to are constantly having to make the decision whether to push back on him, push forward with him, or head for the exits in exasperation," the official explained.
Last Saturday, The Washington Post reported on the madness in the White House in a bombshell sourced to 22 people close to the administration.
Since that report, chief of staff John Kelly purged multiple staff members over lack of security clearances.
On Friday, Vanity Fair reported Trump is planning to fire Kelly, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster along with daughter Ivanka and her husband and fellow senior White House advisor Jared Kushner.
