Perhaps this is his idea of downsizing the government. You just assume everyone is a time-wasting waste of space, then only appoint people to roles on a "as needed" basis. It's a very private industry way of thinking when you take over a business in a merger. Basically he's viewing this like a CEO would who just did a hostile takeover and now he's trying to "trim the fat" on the company he just got control of.
... an incredibly incompetent one, maybe. It's pretty rare an incoming CEO will just mass trash the workforce, and rarer a company actually comes out better if they do. Turns out most people worth a paycheck realizes you actually need people that know what the hell's going on to keep everything from burning down. Trimming comes once you make sure everything's working correctly and you know who was doing what and why.
Well, actually, you try to do that before you acquire a company like that, really, as much as possible, but whatever.Still, could be some of where the decision making's coming from, sure. No one that's paid attention has accused trump of being a good businessman.
problem is the government works utterly differently then any company.
Oh, no, no, not
any company. Plenty of non-profits work in roughly the same manner, if several orders of magnitude smaller scale, and there's any number of commercial administration members that could make the transition without all
that much trouble -- there's lots of business practices that are indeed pretty useful for government work, too. The actual problem is trump's shite at running a company.
E: Really, this is just me going, "Oh hell nah, don't go blaming this shit on business practices" again. The cluster going on here isn't because of business practice, heh. Not good ones, anyway. Not even many bad ones, tbh...