Trump has now surrounded himself with yes-men and is running his Cabinet like he used to run his real estate company -- as a one-man show surrounded by flunkies.
Trump's key foreign policy adviser is his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
His key economic advisers, Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro -- who lack the stature and experience of someone like Gary Cohn -- are egging on the President to ramp up his trade war with China.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is "a heat-seeking missile for Trump's a--" a former US ambassador said, describing Pompeo's obsequious behavior in the recent New Yorker profile of the secretary of state.