PIERRE - U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds confirmed what most people already knew: President Donald Trump's management style is nothing like the White House has ever seen before.
But Rounds isn't unhappy with what's become a revolving door of staff at the White House, although he acknowledged there's value to stability.
"It's not the style that most leaders that I know would use, and you know, I think there's something to be said for stability in your cabinet," Rounds said in a call with reporters Thursday. "Clearly that's not his style, and I'm not going to second-guess him on it."
This week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson became another in a long line of casualties of the Trump administration. Tillerson's firing follows a laundry list of resignations that include former Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn, then-White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, one-time Press Secretary Sean Spicer, former FBI Director James Comey and many more.
But Rounds said Trump's results speak for themselves.
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The South Dakota Republican pointed to December's tax reform package, the elimination of "more than 2,000" federal regulations and his re-doing of the judicial system to fill judgeships with more conservative judges as some of the successes of the Trump administration.
"Those types of things, I think, speak very well about actually getting some results," Rounds said. "I think the style that he's used has been different than anybody else ever has."
