The 5-Minute Fix: Why is Trump firing everybody?
Democracy Dies in Darkness Keeping up with politics is easy now By Amber Phillips He fired his secretary of state via Twitter on Tuesday. On Thursday, we learned he's decided to remove his national security adviser , H.R. McMaster. Any number of Cabinet secretaries are on the chopping block (mostly due to self-inflicted ethical issues ). What's going on? Why is President Trump firing seemingly everyone? A few dynamics are at play here: 1. Trump is firing people he doesn't like or agree with: And he's surrounding himself with people he does like or hopes will agree with him. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got swapped for one of Trump's closest confidantes, CIA Director Mike Pompeo. McMaster could get replaced by TV personality John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who frequently goes on Fox News to defend Trump. (Trump is considering lots of TV personalities, btw.) The problem with...