Instead the president has turned the U.S. government into a version of the Trump Organization, full of wheeler dealers inside and outside the official ranks who exist to do his political bidding. In this version of Trump’s Washington, the rogue actors are the real players and the traditional, professional class in the National Security Council, the State Department and the Pentagon are largely irrelevant.

This is the whole point of the Executive branch. The President is the CEO of the Executive branch, and he gets to run it how he sees fit. Not the other way around.