Why Trump is difficult to handle

The President of the United States Donald Trump has proved ‘a hard nut to crack’.

Some of the high ranking government officials under his administration have either resigned citing difficult relations or simply dismissed.

Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have the shortest-service tenures in the history of their respective offices.

Former US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen holding an executive order on immigration policy

The US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who enforced some of President Trump’s controversial border policies, was the latest official to have resigned.

The question arising from such resignations and dismissals is; is Trump unable to sustain relationships?

Ms Nielsen called it “an honour of a lifetime” to work in the department.

President Trump tweeted she would be temporarily replaced by Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.

Ms Nielsen was responsible for implementing the proposed border wall and the separation of migrant families.

She gave no reason for her departure in her resignation letter, although she said this was “the right time for me to step aside” and said the US “is safer today than when I joined the Administration”.

The announcement she is leaving her post comes days after the president visited the southern border.

Mr Trump has recently threatened to shut the crossing, but has since backtracked and promised to give Mexico a year to stop drugs and migrants crossing into the US.

Who is Kirstjen Nielsen?

Ms Nielsen first joined Mr Trump’s administration in January 2017 as an assistant to the former Homeland Security chief John Kelly.

She became Mr Kelly’s deputy when he moved to become White House chief of staff, but returned to lead her former department later that year.

Ms Nielsen defended border policies such as holding children in wire enclosures in the face of strong condemnation and intense questioning by Democrats in Congress.

But she brushed off the demonstration, tweeting that she would “work tirelessly” to fix the “broken immigration system”.

Video describing her resignation

Her relationship with Mr Trump is said to have been difficult, although in public she has been loyal to the administration.

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