Not surprising.

[Xolodno]

When you give him bad news, he flies into a rage, threatens your job, etc. All those who could work somewhere else....already left. They had capable skills and experience.

So he's stuck with staff that is incompetent and fearful of losing their job. There probably are some who are competent...but they see this as a good book/media deal and/or profiting off of his stupidity.

So to placate his three minute rage, they just tell him what he wants to hear. Remember, very early in his Admin he was given a dossier every day praising him. And we all saw those first cabinet meetings where they all took a knee and kissed his ass. And he loved it. Funny, whenever someone kissed my ass when in a managerial/mentor role....it pissed me off.