One of the highpoints of the first Harris-Trump debate was a great line from Harris:
Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people.
Trump talked about firing too. After Harris recited a litany of former Trump officials who do not support his reelection, including many who now support Harris, Trump responded by saying:
Because when I hear that — see, I’m a different kind of a person. I fired most of those people. Not so graciously. They did bad things or a bad job. I fired them. They never fired one person. They didn’t fire anybody having to do with Afghanistan and the Taliban and the 13 people whose, whose, were just killed viciously and violently killed and I got to know the parents and the family. They should have fired all those generals, all those top people because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen. So when somebody does a bad job I fire them.
I was the vice president of a software development company for 30 years. It was my job to hire and fire people. In that 30 years, I fired one person. I consider that firing a personal failure on my part because I had hired someone who couldn’t do the job. All the rest were successes.
I think that someone who fires lots of people is a lousy manager, because he can’t pick good employees, or he is too lazy to do the work to evaluate them.
So what happens when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the Secretary of Defense is a real screw-up and people die? It means that the president is responsible for negligence in picking them.