President-elect Trump will face a “great crisis” with the Washington bureaucracy in the first 90 days of his administration that will determine whether he will succeed or fail as the country’s president, a top Trump ally warned Wednesday.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told attendees at a regulatory reform conference in Washington the “great crisis of the Trump administration will be about 90 days in when they will have a meeting of the Cabinet and they will realize that, in fact, the bureaucracy is massively denser than they thought it was, and the capacity of this city to resist them is extraordinarily denser than they thought it was.”
“You will then have two Marine four-star generals, a series of billionaires who are used to winning, the longest-serving governor in the history of Texas [and] a world-class neurosurgeon getting together, looking at each other and going, ‘OK. Are they going to beat us or are we just going to take them apart?'” Gingrich said.
“And they will have no choice because if they tolerate this city, they will fail,” he added.
Gingrich, a Trump loyalist who has declined to take a formal role in the incoming Republican president’s administration, predicted that the president-elect will stick to his campaign promise to “drain the swamp” and “take [Washington] apart.”
“Trump understands his base is not this city. This city is the swamp,” Gingrich said. “His base is the country and if he stays on social media and he stays on these rallies, he will eventually break this city. It may take two to six years, but he will eventually break this city.”
