Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump

WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort to head off the final confrontation and instead helped draft the letter of resignation.

When Mr. Trump decided to get rid of his Secret Service director, officials said, Mr. Mulvaney delivered the message rather than try to talk the president out of it. When Mr. Trump considered whether to ask a court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act despite opposition from his own top legal advisers, Mr. Mulvaney’s response: Follow your gut.

In his first 100 days as the president’s acting chief of staff, Mr. Mulvaney has assumed a central role in Mr. Trump’s circle but one markedly different than the previous two occupants of his corner office. For the first time since taking office, Mr. Trump has a chief of staff who has made it his job to encourage rather than restrain the president’s conservative instincts — to let Trump be Trump, in effect.

A former congressman from South Carolina and a leader of the Tea Party movement, Mr. Mulvaney is not a product of the Republican establishment like Reince Priebus, the first chief of staff, or the military hierarchy, like John F. Kelly, the second. Instead, he arrived at the White House from the revolutionary wing of the conservative movement, whose goal even before Mr. Trump entered politics was to blow up what it considered a corrupt and liberal Washington.

“I don’t think that he sees the role of the chief of staff to alter the personality of the person he works for,” said former Representative Trey Gowdy, a friend and fellow South Carolina Republican who golfed with the president and Mr. Mulvaney last month. “They have a good relationship, but the president’s the boss.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/mick-mulvaney-homeland-security.html

Mulvaney also let's his kids run wild and his dog shits on all the neighbors' lawns.