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Dana Milbank: Trump demands subservience and gets incompetence

The Trump administration, if you haven't noticed, is undergoing one of its frequent paroxysms of incompetence.

On the border, the administration holds hundreds of migrant children in deplorable conditions: filthy, frightened and hungry. The president ordered and then called off a massive immigration raid, and, in the middle of the chaos, the administration's top border security official resigned Tuesday.

Overseas, the administration is stumbling toward war with Iran, ordering and then canceling an attack. Iran on Tuesday said the White House is "afflicted by mental retardation," and Trump responded by threatening Iran with "obliteration."

Here in Washington, Trump just appointed a new press secretary for the third time and a White House communications director for the seventh time.