Much of what we know about President Trump's leadership is revealed by his personal behavior. For example, during his first month in office, while Elon Musk conducted mass firings and canceled government services to cut spending, Trump spent nearly $10.7 million of taxpayer money to play golf at his properties.

The Department of Government Efficiency hasn't mentioned this. HuffPost calculated the expenditure based on Trump's tax-supported golf outings during his first term. Over those four years, he golfed 293 days at a cost of $152 million. Taxpayers footed the bill for him to travel on Air Force One, transport motorcade vehicles, and station gunships off the coast of his West Palm Beach golf club.

It's unclear whether he charged his Secret Service detail to stay at his tony resorts, as he did before.

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Trump's golf expenses are chump change compared to his cost-cutting and revenue-raising plans for the government. Still, they illustrate a double standard when tens of thousands of government workers have been fired with little notice and without cause, suddenly jobless and unable to waste money on something like green fees.

Trump's big initiatives reflect his personality, too. They appear to be driven by impulse rather than sound analysis. Their costs and benefits are not transparent, and his decisions are mercurial. They are causing considerable disruption in the stock market, business plans and people's retirement funds.

It's not clear Trump knows what he's doing. For example, he and his advisers say import tariffs will generate billions of dollars in tax breaks. However, these are tax increases imposed on American businesses that rely on imports. Companies........

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