Well, just so we’re clear, John Phelan does not have any Naval experience. As a matter of fact, he has no military experience of any kind. Not to put too fine a point on it, but he also has no shipbuilding experience, or any kind of history with anything related to the navy, to ships, to the Defense Department, or anything else of interest. He did investment banking and finance, and next to nothing with actual industry or production.

What he does have is a history of large donations to Trump’s campaigns.

So the Donald appoints somebody who knows nothing about anything: procurement, supply chains, military; gives him a timeline for a ship class launch that would be unachievable even in the best of circumstance, then fires him because he can’t do something he knows nothing about.

I think in a nutshell that explains a lot of what is going on with this administration.