Your causality is wrong. This adminstration has no interest in working with competent people. They're fired huge numbers of them, gone out of their way to make life hell for those left so they quit, and are moving faster than ever imagined possible to drive competent people in non-government jobs away from this country - by deporting them, taking away their visas, attacking them, and more.
I disagree. The first Trump administration showed that not only were some competent people interested in working in the Trump cabinet, plenty of other competent people were content to keep doing their non-political jobs well for the government, running things, fighting for normal people and what they right, pushing back against overreach.
The second Trump administration took aggressive measures against all competent people - selecting a horrifying cabinet with literally no one qualified for the role they fill and working as fast as possible to fire as many as possible, even through illegal means later rejected by the courts, and punishing any who remain. It's a one-direction causation.
