As a former business executive, I can identify with how Trump is acting in his position as CEO of the country.  As a former academic, I understand  why his actions seem insane to guys like MSW.

In my experience business politics are much different from politics in academia, the former involving snap judgments and a get-it-done attitude, the latter involving painfully slow deliberation and the fear of making mistakes.  In business, you pick up the phone and get it done; in academia, you follow protocol.  To one of the latter, the former can seem crazy and ignorant.  To one of the former, the latter seems to be insanely slow and inefficient.

Government, I suppose, is a lot like academia:  slow, deliberate, protocol-driven.  That's not a requirement, of course, it's just what it has become over time.  For those of us in the business world (and that's a lot of us), we see Trump as the guy who gets things done, protocol be damned.