Trump's Character Flaws as a Leader

Trump's greatest flaw as a president and as a leader is his vulnerability to being manipulated by people who flatter him. He ends up empowering them even though they are completely against the ideological framework he says he wants to defend. Mike Pompeo ended up running the CIA and the State Department despite being a classic war-monger hawk in Neocon. John Bolton was trying to engineer regime change in Venezuela which is true and then that didn't happen. Trump concluded that Bolton was a scam artist and grew this newfound respect for Nicholas Maduro because he was able to resist those regime change operations. Chuck Schumer was right that everyone knows not to do what Trump does to confront the US intelligence agency so you see