From the bottom of the barrel

This explains everything:

Trump has a “management philosophy” that has guided him from the Trump Organization to the 2016 campaign to the White House and now to the campaign for reelection. “What Trump does is take people who are mediocre talent at best, who know they could never have the position they have if it were not for Trump, and it creates this instant loyalty to Trump. When you look at Trumpworld, it’s all these people who weren’t involved in presidential races, and it wasn’t because they didn’t want to be; it was because nobody would hire them. It’s not like Steve Bannon woke up one day and said, ‘I think I’d like to get involved in campaigns!’ Or Corey Lewandowski, all of these people. It’s how you end up with Brad Parscale. Top professionals won’t work for you.”

That’s former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens’s observation and I think it does explain Trump’s White House.

All Trump cares about is loyalty. So he seeks out people who owe everything to him , which means they are, at best, mediocre. No person of quality would ever tie their reputations and their futures to such a man unless no one else would have them.

Take a look at a couple of the closest members of his inner circle:

I could go on …