The Art of "You're Fired", The Sequel

As a means to distract the American public from alleged extramarital affairs, high school students marching for the right to not get shot at and trade wars that might unnecessarily wreck the economy, President Donald Trump continues to make news by remaking the White House in his own image.  The latest:

• H.R. McMaster has been replaced as national security advisor by John Bolton, who used to be President George W. Bush's United Nations ambassador.  Bolton sounds like the kind of guy who'd rather pour gasoline on a fire during a world crisis instead of putting them out, if his past statements on Fox News and elsewhere are any indication.  Rip up the Iran nuclear deal?  Sure.  Bomb North Korea before they bomb America?  Why not?  By the way, what's Dick Cheney doing these days?
• Deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe was just two days away from retiring with a pension after 21 years on the job before Attorney General Jeff Sessions canned him.  McCabe's crime, apparently, was for not being honest about the last-minute investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mails, which ended up costing her the presidential election.  The fallout from the firing resulted in McCabe's old boss, former FBI director James Comey, having his soon-to-be released book zoom up the charts.
• One of Trump's remaining attorneys, John Dowd, quit when he realized that he can't help the President if he doesn't want to listen to his advice.  The last straw, apparently, was when Trump reportedly was willing to be interviewed by special prosecutor Robert Mueller about his role in the alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election.  No self-respecting lawyer would let his client do something like that.  But then, no self-respecting lawyer would be working for Trunp right now.  Oh, isn't Dowd the one who called for the Mueller investigation to conclude?

The number of former Trump employees at the White House keeps growing.  One wonders how long this shakedown period will last--if it ever does.