At least someone controlled Obama, who seemed to be a clever and liberal guy, and not someone who turned out to be one of the worst war criminals and offender of liberal or constitutional provisions. Obama could only control soft issues, the "complex" didn't care about. Or as it was leaked they even mandated the people to lead these soft issues also. And they will most likely control Trump as well, as he is just another new inexperienced outsider.

But different to Obama, Trump at least talked about clearing the house a bit. Obama also made some promises, but on the very first days he betrayed them with the Raytheon lobbyist Lynn, violating his own new ethic rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Lynn_III#Deputy_Sec...