No, Hillary Clinton isn’t “going to jail.”

No, Muslim immigration hasn’t been halted.

No, China, Japan and Europe haven’t stopped “killing us” with their cheap currencies.

No, Mexico isn’t going to pay for the wall.

No, Goldman Sachs GS, +0.01% and the Wall Street elites aren’t going to be banished, and the swamp won’t be drained.

Oh, yeah, and I almost forgot: No, Obamacare isn’t going to be repealed and replaced with something fantastic and amazing and terrific.

Or, apparently, with anything at all.

Not on Day One. Not on Day 10. Not even on Day 70.

“ Do you think that if Warren Buffett had run for president, fewer than two dozen employees of Berkshire Hathaway would have donated to the cause? ”

So much for this “can do” executive. So much for the great deal maker. So much for the guy who was going to fix Washington, do amazing deals and get things done.

But if you’re surprised to see President Trump become President Chump so quickly, here’s a thing.

You know who isn’t surprised?

You know who saw this coming a mile away?

You know who already knew just what kind of a “can do” executive Trump really was?

The people who’ve been working with him for years, that’s who. Especially the people who’ve known him best and up close: his own employees.

Donald Trump bragged on the campaign trail that he employed “tens of thousands” of people. And independent estimates say the Trump Organization employs about 22,500.

But do you know how many of those actually supported his presidential campaign with even a single red cent?

Go on, have a guess.

Give up?

Nineteen people.

Yes, really. Nineteen. That’s according to the Federal Election Commission’s data, as compiled and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan think tank that tracks money and politics.

The 19 people listed include the retired airline pilot who used to work for Trump and sent in a check for $138.

Even if we add the people working for the Trump presidential campaign itself, for whom a donation should be considered a part of the job, and even Trump’s son Eric, we can only get the grand total up to 37.

That includes the woman working at Trump campaign headquarters who gave $4 — in two lots of $2 each. (Wouldn’t you love to know if she paid in $2 bills?)

Let us admit that, no doubt, federal data missed some people. But there is no way you can extrapolate anything respectable out of this tiny number.

This stunning declaration by the Trump workforce is part of the public record.

I don’t know about you, but if I worked for a great CEO, and really believed he’d make a good president, I’d want to show my support even if he didn’t need the money. I suspect a lot of people would, even if they only sent in a token $50 or $100.

Do you think that if Warren Buffett had run for president, fewer than two dozen employees of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, +0.07% would have donated to the cause?

How about Bill Gates and the people at Microsoft MSFT, -1.24% ? The late Steve Jobs and Apple AAPL, -3.17% ?

Can you imagine Lee Iacocca running for president 30 years ago and only 19 people at Chrysler FCAU, -3.46% sending in a check?

Seriously?

Trump Organization employees worked with their CEO every day. They saw the quality of his decisions. And they had to deal with the consequences.

And when it came time to speak out with their checkbooks about the kind of president he’d make, their silence was deafening.

Those little old ladies in Dubuque and angry old guys in Naples sending Trump their $200 checks: Did they never wonder why his own employees weren’t doing so? Did that never seem odd to them?

As we watch this unfolding farce in Washington, let’s just remember that this should not be a surprise with anyone who actually has any understanding of business, or of Trump’s own record.

As repeatedly pointed out here and elsewhere, Trump’s career has mainly been a long trail of failures, disappointments, broken promises and defaults. People who think he must be a good CEO because he’s rich merely show that they don’t know how the system can work.

Trump companies have filed for bankruptcy four times, and the list of bankrupt projects is longer still.

He ended up having to borrow money from Germany — or maybe even further east — because U.S. bankers were reluctant to lend him any more. They’d grown tired of not getting it back.

Trump’s only provable skills have been self-promotion, conning the naive and lining his own pockets even while impoverishing others. How fortunate that at least his daughter and wife are putting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to productive use.

Many years ago, when I started out as a financial journalist at a London newspaper, one of the old-timers gave me some advice I have never forgotten.

When you write about company executives and their big plans, he said, don’t pay too much attention to what they say or how they say it. Don’t get overawed by the glitzy press conference or the impressive PowerPoint presentation.

Instead, take a close look at their record.

My colleague said that after decades of covering public companies and their grandstanding CEOs, he’d come to believe that the greatest single predictor of future success was past success.

Of course, the serial failures always had an excuse for their past letdowns. It was never their fault. It was always somebody else, or bad luck, or forces beyond their control.

But, amazingly, it just kept happening to them over and over again! (Really, what were the odds?)

Bottom line: Some people give you results. Other people give you excuses. And never the twain shall meet.

So true.

And so here we are. We’re not even three months into the Trump presidency and already this is turning into a farce.

And there must surely come a point when even Trump’s cheerleaders, like all those who have lent him money, trusted him or worked with him, start to see the pattern.