The Trump regime is not the Amateur Hour, nor a clown-car. Amateurs make an earnest effort at their art, and clowns can be masters of their profession.

No, the Trump regime is a constellation of self-admiring incompetents.

I’ve known many incompetents, have myself been incompetent in some things I have tried. Now, I’ve perceived two kinds of incompetents. There are those who find themselves in jobs for which they know they are incompetent, admit their incompetence, and seek help and guidance so that they will eventually become competent. The second type are those who do not know that they are incompetent and think their perennial screw-ups are successes. These are the terminal incompetents, and the Trump regime is crawling with them.