Government employees are covered by the civil service act. He couldn’t
I was thinking that as I know my dad was civil service in the later part of his career, and he could not get rid of incompetent employees. But I do believe there were some that were the ring leaders who Trump could have eighty-sixed. Plus he surrounded himself with some of the worst den of thieves ever. People that were shady and duplicitous and not loyal.
He needed a wise advisor like Obi: