With President Donald Trump’s approval rating plunging to a record low of just 33%, he is eager to find someone — anyone — to blame for his tanking popularity. Anyone, that is, except himself.

Instead of getting the message the American people are sending, Trump is instead leaning on an old trick from his reality television days and shaking up the cast of characters in his dysfunctional administration. He may think a purge will fix things, but high-profile firings won’t cure what ails an administration derailed by his own incompetence and failures