Team of Top Government Officials resign to avoid working for Trump.

Donald Trump and his administration just got a whole new
host of problems in the attempt to run the United States of
America. This has nothing to do with Twitter, gigantic
protest marches or squabbles with the media. This is all
about staff, which is, arguably, the biggest of all possible
problems. All of the members of the senior level of
management in the State Department resigned on
Wednesday, January 25, the Washington Post reported.
According to columnist Josh Rogin, this mass resigning was
“part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service
officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.”
The top State Department officials resigned as a new
secretary of state was beginning his new position. Rex
Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon Mobil and recipient of
Vladimir Putin’s “Order of Friendship” (nothing to see here,
folks), was approved by the Senate to be secretary of State
on Monday, January 23. This was all despite spoken
disapproval from many Democrats and a lengthy
confirmation hearing session.
Tillerson was at the State Department on Wednesday,
visiting his new digs, right before the top team resigned en
masse. On Wednesday afternoon, State Under Secretary for
Management Patrick Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of State
for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of
State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Director of the
Office of Foreign Missions Gentry O. Smith all quit. State
Chief of Staff under John Kerry, David Wade, said, It’s the
single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional
memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly
difficult to replicate. He added that it’s very difficult to find
people to fill these roles as they’re all require a very specific
set of skills.
When an administration changes, it’s typical for there to be
lots of staff changes. But usually, the old staff sticks
around to help the new one out. That’s clearly not what’s
happening here.