Trump increasingly appears weak. It may be that he's following lawyerly advice, which generally separates a man from his man-ness. However, after being elected president of the United States, he announced that he would defer to has generals, who were experts in military matters. At first glance, one would suppose that no commander-in-chief would defer to his generals. Promptly, Trump made himself shrink. He has been a shrinking man ever since. He cannot bring order nor discipline to his White House staff, so he appoints a general, John Kelly [who knocked the "H" out of him?].
General Kelly received the Donald Trump verbal Medal of Excellence for his work at DHS, even though it has been revealed that he wanted to resign to indicate his indignation at the firing of then FBI Director James Comey. Subsequently, Chief of Staff Kelly has been mowing down old Trump presidential campaign loyalists. Not a peep from President Trump - apparently terrified of leaks from Obama loyalists, RINO Republicans, Hillary supporters, globalists and criminals-in-action which his confused approach cannot master.
Speaking of General McMasters for a moment, he appears to be another closet Obama sympathizer - or deep agent of John Brennan, former director of CIA, and James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence and former U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General.
Meanwhile, under Trump's Secretary of State Gen. Mattis, the United States builds military bases in a sovereign nation which never invited the United States to enter its jurisdiction and doesn't want them there. For the Pentagon bigwigs the congressional bill declaring a "war on terrorism" provided all the necessary approval to bomb or invade anyone.
Maybe generals stick together no matter what. After all, David Petraeus, former U.S. Army general and former director of the CIA, has been very active politically and administratively in his job with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, at least formerly a hedge fund and presently a global force for Bilderberger-style ideas & policies. I do believe that General McMasters "keeps in touch" with David Petraeus. For American generals it's a small world after all.
Given all this globalist brass in his administration, President Trump's MAGA trumpeting isn't advancing much at all. Perhaps the reason for that is that his trumpet blasts are muted behind his wall of generals which he caused to erect.
Indeed, President Trump appears to be greatly diminished - a boy, really - as his "grown up" generals, functioning as a collective regent, guide the little boy Donald so he won't fall and hurt himself or interfere with their plans.
The fact that during his transition period, he never appointed anyone to find conservative, patriotic Americans and, after ousting Obama and Hillary loyalists, appoint them in their place. This might have required first reducing the size of government to boot out lingering traitors, then appoint people compatible with the "America First" program announced by Trump.
As commander-in-chief, Trump should have known he would have to have a compatible civilian "officers corps" to put in his executive offices. He could not expect his ragtag army of citizen supporters to function in the federal offices. He had to do this to take effective command. He had to be confrontational with a legislature secretly plotting to thwart him, making clear that he would support in the 2018 elections only people who consistently supported him.
Finally, Trump had to achieve a positive relationship with Russia and China so he could concentrate on America's economic problems. He would have to kill, fix or go around the Federal Reserve central bank. He would have to direct the Treasury Department to issue a new interest-free, legal tender - the U.S. Treasury Dollar. No interest-bearing bonds or notes would be issued. The Treasury would cease its relationship with the Fed. To keep China and Japan cooperative, Trump would have the Treasury issue U.S. Treasury Dollars denominated in $100B, $10B, $B, etc. All of these would be interest free. These would be replacements for Treasury Bonds, which would be returned and destroyed. Since the United States would then be self-financing for all needs, the large U.S. Treasury Dollars would be destroyed as they returned to the United States. By agreeing fully to participate in China's Silk Road project, the United States would assure key foreign trading partners that we intended on pursuing a common, positive relationship with other nations, after a brief period of national adjustment.
As for the money which would commonly be employed in the United States, I believe that Trump should direct the U.S. Treasury to create an intra-national cryptocurrency - the USCoin - which it would use to pay employees and vendors/contractors. Other non-governmental cryptocurrencies could be freely used by citizens in their buying and selling of goods and services, if accepted. The Treasury would operate an exchange. Many popular cryptocurrencies could be exchanged for USCoins, and the Treasury would charge a small transaction fee. The Treasury would also place ATMs widely to provide USCoins or exchange cryptocurrencies. The Treasury would regulate the USCoins.
Instead of an income tax, there would be an annual, uniform, federal service tax, as well as value added tax, to provide for the General Welfare. These taxing schemes may be ultimately different from my suggestion, but in any case not oppressive.
Since President Trump would need to do some very radical surgery to fix the American economy, this is where his attention should be focused. Enemies of America First and its economic rejuvenation will try to force energy expenditure on global matters, while inundating America with cultural aliens who suppose America is rich and who want a piece of the action.
Yet, because Donald Trump has shrunk into a Baron-like figure surrounded by generals who are globalist or who are secretly sympathetic to Obama-HRC, he cannot accomplish anything other than kvetching in a wimpy fashion. Nice!