Regardless of one’s personal feelings on President Donald Trump’s qualitative attributes as a human on this Earth, I think we can all agree that his time as president has been more complicated than many of his predecessors. Over the course of the past two years, our country has endured serious trauma, be it destruction caused by natural disasters or pain felt throughout a community of grieving from a mass shooting. While I cannot imagine what it must be like to be in Donald Trump’s shoes, I empathize with the dozens of former members from his administration who have been canned or resigned for their own “personal reasons.” We’ve seen attorney generals leave with their tails between their legs, UN ambassadors leave whilst screaming at first lady Melania Trump, and everything in between.
It’s almost as if Mike Rowe, the host of the television series, “Dirty Jobs,” should stop searching for new locations and set up shop in the West Wing. Either way, the Trump administration needs some serious workforce management, and it can’t be helped that President Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, will be leaving his post at the end of the year. After a tumultuous career spent trying to reign in Trump’s spontaneous tweet-driven legislative decisions and executive orders, Kelly is out. Given the immensely short attention span of both American media outlets and the informed public, everyone wants to know who’s going to step up to the plate in John Kelly’s absence.
For those of us who’ve seen a few episodes of Netflix’s (NFLX) “House of Cards,” or, if we’re all being honest with one another, watched the entire series in one night with a bag of cheesy poofs by our side, we know that the job of White House chief of staff is anything but seamless.
The next chief will not only be tasked with reigning in President Trump’s ragtag team of quirky cartoon characters that make up his administration but more importantly than that, they will be thrown into the chaos that is a presidency under intense investigation. As special counsel Robert Mueller works to finally close the lid on his investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 US presidential election, it would be unbecoming for President Trump to be anything but uncouth at this time. For this to be possible, Trump needs a damn good chief of staff.
Nick Ayers, the current chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, has been the key focus of Trump’s courtship for filling John Kelly’s position. Aside from enjoying piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, Ayers has been the only administration member to keep his affairs, and the East Wing, completely under control. If you don’t believe me when was the last time Mike Pence made the headlines for something potentially racist or controversial? Nevertheless, Ayers announced Sunday that he will respectfully decline President Trump’s offer.
In the advent of the news on Ayers, the media set their speculation phasers to “stun,” and President Trump took to Twitter to soothe the savage beasts:
“I am in the process of interviewing some really great people for the position of White House Chief of Staff. Fake News has been saying with certainty it was Nick Ayers, a spectacular person who will always be with our #MAGA agenda. I will be making a decision soon.”
–President Trump on Twitter
If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it one more time, to be president of the United States is undoubtedly the most difficult position available for willful American employment. Having said that, forty-three of Trump’s predecessors, regardless of the mishegas in during each of their terms, all battened down their collective hatches and figured it out. It would be unbecoming of President Trump to not select an incredible new chief of staff, especially given the potential for impeachment with the Democratic majority set to take effect when the new members of Congress are installed.
For Trump’s sake and the future of our country until 2020, I hope we find a replacement chief of staff soon.
