Last Friday, whoever was running the National Park Service's Twitter account ran afoul of The Donald's latest bugaboo by tweeting the pictures that compare the size of Trump's inauguration to the size of Barack Obama's. The NPS was compelled to temporarily suspend their tweeting, and ultimately to publicly apologize to Trump.

In case we did not already know this, the incident makes clear that with President Trump, no target is too small, no snub is too inconsequential. On the other hand, we are also reminded that the U.S. government is a massive bureaucracy, with many employees who do not care for Trump, who have many, many ways to push back against the White House. In general, civil service employees at or below the pay level of GS-15 cannot be fired on a presidential whim, while those above can be. Nevertheless, GS-15 civil servants, all of whom make more than $100,000, are senior employees who know a lot about how the government works and have access to information (e. g., unemployment numbers), before their political-appointee bosses do. Leaks from this level are likely to become common. This is all likely to be a source of endless frustration for Trump.