Amateur Hour at the Trump White House

John Harris and Daniel Lippman: “Nearly everyone remembers the old cliché: If you can’t trust someone to get the little things right, how can you ever count on them to do the big things?”

“President Trump had better hope that bromide, invoked everywhere from youth sports teams to sales training sessions, doesn’t apply to him.”

“As his presidency lurches toward a climactic judgment on Nov. 3, the little things lately have rarely gone more pervasively or embarrassingly wrong — at a time when public confidence in Trump’s handling of the big things is hardly robust.”