Opinion: The proudly incompetent Trump administration sows chaos, as usual
: “Thirty minutes before Trump appeared live on camera, a final draft of his remarks still had not circulated widely within the White House …. And senior health experts in the administration did not review a final draft of the remarks.” Problems were obvious at once: Trump made major errors that had to be corrected by his aides, including his assertion that the ban would cover cargo as well as people.
But the biggest problem did not emerge until Friday, when hordes of panicked Americans returned from Europe to a handful of U.S. airports that were not prepared to receive them. As former Rand Corp. analyst Cheryl Benard recounted in a, thousands of travelers were forced to wait for hours in crowded lines, sometimes alongside obviously sick individuals. Many were then forced to use unsanitary fingerprint readers and sent on their way without any testing or follow-up.
Kushner was behind that chaos, too: Three days after the election, he purged former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and his aides, who had been running the transition, because Christie, a former federal prosecutor, had. Trump was so clueless that he didn’t see the need for a transition at all. Lewis quotes the president-elect telling Christie: “Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.
The Opinions section is looking for stories of how the coronavirus has affected people of all walks of life. Write to us. The Trump people were utterly unprepared to run the federal government and began making momentous decisions with no understanding of what they were doing or what kind of risks they were running. The National Security Council office responsible for coordinating the response to pandemics miraculously survived the first year of the administration, only to be inexplicably
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