
We have heard this before.
Courtesy of NYT:
Mr. Trump, who has mounted a yearslong attack on the intelligence agencies, is particularly difficult to brief on critical national security matters, according to interviews with 10 current and former intelligence officials familiar with his intelligence briefings.
The president veers off on tangents and getting him back on topic is difficult, they said. He has a short attention span and rarely, if ever, reads intelligence reports, relying instead on conservative media and his friends for information. He is unashamed to interrupt intelligence officers and riff based on tips or gossip he hears from the former casino magnate Steve Wynn, the retired golfer Gary Player or Christopher Ruddy, the conservative media executive.
Mr. Trump rarely absorbs information that he disagrees with or that runs counter to his worldview, the officials said. Briefing him has been so great a challenge compared with his predecessors that the intelligence agencies have hired outside consultants to study how better to present information to him.
Working to keep Mr. Trump’s interest exhausted and burned out his first briefer, Ted Gistaro, two former officials said. Mr. Gistaro did not always know what to expect and would sometimes have to brief an erratic and angry president upset over news reports, the officials said.
This is not the first time that we have heard about Trump’s short attention span and difficulty comprehending and retaining complex information.
In the past we have heard that his briefings were held every other day instead of every day like his predecessors and that the information packets had to be colorful and contain pictures to hold his attention.
Even with that Trump does not like to read what is written, and insists that it be explained in simple language while he argues back against facts that he does not want to accept as reality.
Of course, all of this takes on a new urgency with the Coronavirus pandemic that Trump has proven woefully unable to handle.
In fact, he continues to insist to this day that he is just hearing new information contained in questions posed by reporters that he should have been briefed on days or weeks before.
In short, the man is an idiot and he should never have been placed in a position of such authority.
Our job as Americans is to remove him from that responsibility and to put somebody infinitely more capable in his place.
Vote!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-is-upset-that-they-cant-just-run-against-hillary-clinton-again?ref=home
Joe Biden’s not Hillary Clinton, thank God,” one senior Biden adviser said about any attempt from Team Trump to paint him as a Hillary clone.
It’s also prompted some Trump lieutenants, and even the president himself, to start practically longing for the good ol’ days of having Clinton as their foe. As recently as last month, Trump privately joked how great it would be if Biden ultimately didn’t secure the nomination this summer and Clinton would have to step in, so that he could beat her harder than he did last time around, according to two sources close to the president.
“It would be nice, for sure, if we were running against a replica of Hillary,” a senior Trump administration official said. “But only Hillary Clinton is Hillary Clinton.”
“None of these tactics will work on Biden because…. wait for it….HE’S A MAN!” “Democrats need to understand that this is a real fight,”
https://news.yahoo.com/edward-snowden-will-not-be-pardoned-in-his-lifetime-says-author-of-new-book-on-the-nsa-whistleblower-140326290.html
https://www.amazon.com/Barton-Gellman/e/B001JP2RDI/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State May 19, 2020
with his intelligence briefings
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first of all, they can’t give trump intelligence briefings because he is too stupid, maybe if they gave him MORON Briefings he would be able to comprehend them. They could start with stick drawings and work their way up to 3 word sentences. Trump is learning disabled, so they should repeat each sentence at least 4-5 times for it to penetrate his pea size brain. If he were in school now a days, he would be in special ed.
second, if the briefing doesn’t pertain to him personally, he could care less.
Any time I hear “intelligence briefings,” I LAUGH.
This administration??!?
Don’t you mean “he COULDN’T care less?”
“Courtesy of NYT” lol.
I love how trolls believe that progressives have been as manipulated into distrusting the mainstream media as they have been.
If you trust the Daily Caller, Breitbart, or Fox News more than the New York Times you are most definitely a moron.
I have a sibling who went to the dark side long ago. To try to prove an open mind she listed a group of talking heads she claims to watch. A list ranging the whole spectrum from liberals like Maddow to kook to evil turtle men.Conveniently, Hannity and Inghram and other such luminaries were left off the list. She watches fox news 12 hours a day 7 days a week. Go figure. I called her on it but I doubt it even registered.
It’s official. Your sister is a sack of potatoes.
Who said anything about Daily Caller, Breitbart, or Fox besides yourself.
Always have to go there when someone uses intelligence around here don’t you?
I think The Lincoln Project has finally perfected their method of getting Trump’s attention. Not only are they tailoring their ads to push his buttons, they are concentrating them in the D.C. area so he is sure to see them. Likely buying time on Fox, CNN and MSNBC since we know he watches them all.
Here is their latest. Wouldn’t be surprised if Parscale was suddenly on Trump’s hit list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=mYpTJTngXE8&feature=emb_logo
Well. Being just a front man without a brain, cant expect more. The steven millers run our country.
https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-paid-huge-premium-154700476.html
“As Trump has pushed to find silver-bullet solutions to the pandemic during an election year, the speedy decision to activate the machines reflects yet again the problematic decision-making of the White House task force. As a series of NBC News articles have shown, its leaders have looked past financial costs, potential harm to the public and the risk of getting ghosted by bidders in order to give Trump a steady stream of deals to announce, often with major companies.”
“In weeks of interviews, email exchanges and text messages over the last month with scores of people involved at all levels of the coronavirus response — senior White House officials to front-line responders, career federal officials to scientists working in the field, corporate CEOs to front-line responders — a picture of the task force’s methods has come into ever-sharper focus. Working without external oversight, it has pumped billions of dollars into hard-to-trace contracts for COVID-19 supplies that often don’t pan out as advertised.”
“The pursuit of an all-of-the-above approach to finding medical solutions and equipment to slow the spread of the virus has perversely wasted time, money and opportunity, according to critics within the administration who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity because they fear losing their jobs.”
Trump spent $600 MILLION dollars on unproven machines to clean N95 masks and turns out they’re only safe to clean three times. How many masks could you just BUY with $600 MILLION dollars? This is just one of the examples of Trump being a business moron.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-wall-fisher-sand-and-gravel_n_5ec4ced8c5b62cbfaa2f24ae
“A construction company whose CEO regularly went on conservative news shows to appeal to President Donald Trump was awarded a $1.28 billion contract to build a large section of the border wall in Arizona earlier this month, according to several media reports.
Fisher Sand and Gravel, a firm from North Dakota, was awarded the contract by the Army Corps of Engineers on May 6. The Arizona Daily Star, which was the first to confirm the contract, noted the funds will be used to build about 42 miles of black-painted wall, part of Trump’s campaign pledge to construct hundreds of miles of barrier along the southern border with Mexico before the November election.
The company has drawn scrutiny over its unusual strategy to win the bid. The Washington Post reported that CEO Tommy Fisher was initially passed over when the government requested bids to build the structure, but went on a media blitz on networks including Fox News and appealed to notable allies of the president, including former advisor Steve Bannon.
“Hopefully the president will see this,” Fisher said during an appearance last year on “Fox & Friends First,” pledging to build a border wall quicker and cheaper than competitors.
Trump took notice and began touting the company repeatedly and aggressively in meetings with the Army Corps of Engineers last year. Fisher Sand and Gravel won a separate, $400 million contract last December even though it has little experience building projects like the wall.”
Trump is constantly awarding contracts to start ups, small businesses and charlatans with no experience.