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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 09:21 AM Apr 2020

'See Jane run.'

Staffers on the National Security Council initially generated multipage memos for Trump, as they had for Bush and Obama, that outlined detailed policies and strategies. He also received a thick briefing book each night. Over time, it became clear that Trump, unlike Bush and Obama, rarely read these. An order came down from senior officials to reduce the NSC memos to a single page. Eventually, aides came to the conclusion that the best way to raise an issue in writing was to prepare a long, narrow card, made of heavy paper stock, with “The White House” written across the top. One former aide said the information that needed to be relayed to Trump had to be reduced to “two or three points, with the syntactical complexity of ‘See Jane run.

Worth some time (it explains a lot):
https://lithub.com/how-the-trump-presidency-became-a-hotbed-of-conspiracy-theory/

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zonemaster

(232 posts)
1. The GOP likes their Presidents dumb and manipulable
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 09:37 AM
Apr 2020

Then the President becomes, in effect, a non-reasoning rubber stamp for their wildest right-wing fantasies. See G.W. Bush / Cheney / Wolfowitz / Rumsfeld for reference.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
2. I think
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 09:37 AM
Apr 2020

they need to beam a news show on his TV. pretty blondes, wearing provocative clothing, "reporting." Guest speakers ( again pretty blondes) "discussing" the pros and cons. All in bullet points with middle school verbiage.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
3. Thanks. Found this.. Dr. McWhorter discusses malevolent oaf [imo] in WH inability to orate; limited
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 10:17 AM
Apr 2020

language skills. Prof. McWhorter relays something even more sinsiter--his knowledge that trump when a teenager held a boy from his feet out the window relishing in his anguish.
[at link Prof. McWhorter/ Brian Williams @msnbc 2018.]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/linguist-expert-trump-sounds-like-your-beer-swilling-uncle-1315606083641&ved=2ahUKEwjlg4irkdDoAhURqJ4KHQ-_BSQQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAQ&usg=AOvVaw0PaQ4i9BTF5KyuSko9cD56



Midnight Writer

(21,753 posts)
5. I recall a story that the CIA hired professional animators to format the Daily Intelligence Briefing
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 03:15 PM
Apr 2020

They had a problem with Trump fidgeting and distracted during briefings, so they thought using animated cartoons would help keep his attention.

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