He was new to the job just like all Presidents before him. And most of the time during Presidents first 4 years is spent getting re-elected. Your second 4 years is actually working. The first is spent relying upon new appointees to clean up things....but Trump left many of Obama's in place. The few "show ponies" he hired were incompetent. A couple were actually decent and others just made to appear that way. Which led to his undoing.
This time around he appears to want to clean crap up....and it's a swamp. Everything from Farm Credit, FTC, SEC, on down the line are as corrupt and dirty and screwing over the American citizen as much as possible.
He's got several people waiting in the wings who are very competent in swamp cleaning....and DC is plotting how to survive the cleaning.
They are digging in and running underground.
We are gonna hear a LOT of crying if Trump gets elected but it's always to take your focus off the messes getting cleaned up. Misdirection is the key here.