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But now I've come to the conclusion that the "dynamite behind the door" was in plain sight. It was Trump himself. The oversized personality. The failure to organize. The lack of discipline.

"It was humiliating to watch the U.S. Army march in a parade and then go watch the Mexican army or the Ukrainian army or the Norwegians," Mattis said (Trumps første forsvarsminister).

[Forsvarsminister] Mattis frequently used a phrase coined by George Kennan, [ . . . ]: "the treacherous curtain of deference" that comes down when someone is around high-level officials, especially presidents.

"Look," Trump said, "when you're running a country it's full of surprises. There's dynamite behind every door. [Kursiv i originalteksten side XX].

By early 2020, Kushner thought Trump had assembled a better and more dedicated White House team than they’d had before. “In the beginning”, Kushner told others, referring to the first years of the administration, “20 percent of the people we had thought Trump was saving the world, and 80 percent thought they were saving the world from Trump.”