It seemed to take Donald Trump a few days just how to react to midterm election results that were such a widespread repudiation of his presidency, his policies and the multi-pronged MAGA campaign to burn down trust in U.S. institutions.

Indeed, a subdued Trump had sounded almost conciliatory about working with the Democratic opposition for his last two years before apparently exploding with fury within his own circle to find a scapegoat or two for how he had suffered such an embarrassing loss.

Trump ousted Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, somehow blaming her for his choices of refusing to engage voters on their issues of anger, and appointed the arsonist – Stephen Miller, the guy most responsible and associated with war in Iran, war on immigrants and unrelenting war on Trump political enemies.

While Trump can pick whom he likes as advisers without approval of Congress, it’s a sign to the rest of us that Trump is thumbing his nose at the overwhelming clear messages of the midterms to stop high costs, war and chaos, and the widely perceived corruption of the Oval Office for personal, family and friends’ financial gain.