Trump has never cared about hiring people who are efficient. He hires them if they pay him. His administration was filled with industry representatives, who were in positions where they decided regulation of their own businesses. Corruption all the way down.
He has called the press “the enemy of the people” for years now. We all know what dictators do to their self-declared “enemies of the people”. But for some reason a lot of that same press is so intent on sanewashing him.