Trump Doesn’t Want a Chief of Staff

Jonathan Swan: “As part of his exasperation with being handled, Trump has taken to telling friends that — like Lyndon Johnson — he doesn’t even need a chief.”

“Trump has never fully grasped the concept. Sources close to Trump repeat the cliché that he wants to run the White House like the Trump Organization — an unstructured family business where he woke most days unsure of what lay ahead, and ran his business like a series of jazz improv sets.”

“Back then, he spent his days on the phone, taking calls, receiving ideas, making decisions on pure gut instinct with a disdain for sophisticated data or prescriptions from consultants.”