Trump turning away intelligence briefings since victory: report

[applegrove]

Trump turning away intelligence briefings since victory: report

BECCA SAVRANSK at the Hill

"SNIP.............


Donald Trump has been turning away intelligence briefings since winning the presidency earlier this month, The Washington Post reported.

Since his win, the president-elect has received only two classified intelligence briefings — an initial briefing he got within days of his victory and a second he received on Tuesday in New York before leaving for Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday.

That number so far is lower than his predecessors, according to current and former U.S. officials.

In the two weeks since the election, intelligence analysts have been ready to give Trump daily briefings on global developments and security threats, according to The Post.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence has reportedly made time almost every day since the election to receive the intelligence briefings.


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[Ilsa]

1. Trump is delegating the big headache-y stuff to Pence.

I bet trump can't find half of the countries mentioned on a map.

[applegrove]

8. He should study the countries on the map so that he can put his briefings into some context.

[Ilsa]

9. Nah, that requires effort and concentration.

He's too ADD for that, I bet.

[applegrove]

11. His dyslexic and has a context dependant memory. If he learnt the map of the most important

countries, he could start learning the context.

[Ilsa]

12. Agreed, but he has to want to do it. I don't think he does, yet. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Thank you my fellow

DUer. You nailed it!!!!! We could see coming miles away. Want some interesting reading about this Dupe,read the Transcript from the NY Times meet and greet yesterday. Nothing has changed,still does not want to learn or understand what is really happening.

[applegrove]

14. Yes. He will have to have the intelligence briefings dumbed down for him. Made very

concrete. With visual aides like maps. So he can learn them in a 3D way.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. It will have to be 4th grade

level at best,with lots of pictures.

[applegrove]

18. Map of the world to que him on the country(ies) involved. Repetative briefings that

are simple and clear as a bell. Not 4th grade. Kind of like the metadata on foreign affairs the who what and why but not the when and how.

[Wellstone ruled]

20. This is a diseaster looking for a place to happen.

Plain and simple.

[applegrove]

25. If we could just get him to buy real estate and put his name on a building in every

capital of the world, he would know and care.

[subterranean]

40. That's it. If it's not about him, he doesn't care.

[applegrove]

41. He's a person who is dependant on the concrete. His is out of his element in

any complex system created by mankind unless he has years to absorb it. Foreign policy is a complex system.

[Adsos Letter]

2. And this is what we have.

De facto President Pence.

[COLGATE4]

5. The same thing he proposed to Kasich. You do the hard work and I'll

do the 'Presidenting'. Except here I doubt he ever even asked Pence.

[PearliePoo2]

3. Instead, he's listening to Flynn and Bannon.

CT is it.

[Txbluedog]

4. Makes sense that they man who'll be actually running the country....

Gets the daily briefings while the figurehead avoids thrm

[bdamomma]

6. He just is totally mentally unfit

to comprehend what the job entails. This is truly not acceptable.

[RKP5637]

28. Pretty much Herr President Buffoon IMO. n/t

[HassleCat]

7. But of course!

The word "intelligence" is in there.

[Dawson Leery]

10. Perhaps for the better.

Pence is an SOB, but competent and not with Russia.

[jg10003]

38. I agree, Pence makes Reagan look progressive but he is not insane and he knows how to govern.

We can survive 4 years of Pence. Trump is an existential threat to the republic and perhaps the world.

[bdamomma]

42. we have two evils here

both pence and trump. Pence is a religious fanatic will he say it Gods will if we get attacked.

[spanone]

15. his ignorance and hubris makes him so fucking dangerous

[RoccoRyg]

16. Reminds me of the Simpsons Movie

"I was elected to lead, not to read. I pick that one."

[OhioBlue]

19. He is too busy beckoning people to kiss his ring. n/t

[RB TexLa]

21. He gets it all from memes on social media

[Beartracks]

22. Trump never wanted to BE the President.

This was only supposed to be a publicity stunt, after all, wasn't it? And then it all went horribly wrong, for him AND for us!!

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[RKP5637]

29. I don't think he ever thought he would be elected. It was a fun stunt for him and ego building. Now,

we are all stuck with a disaster.

[Martin Eden]

23. Trump already knows more than all the generals

And "intelligence" is for losers.

[roamer65]

24. I remember a nitwit that ignored a PDB in August 2001 and the result was 9/11.

[Beartracks]

26. He doesn't need them.

He knows more than all those analysts anyway, don'tchaknow.



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[Hekate]

27. During the campaign, didn't Trump say he'd delegate the fiddly bits to Pence because Trump's job....

...is to make America great?

Brr.

Maybe we're just as lucky that Benedict Donald ISN'T sitting still for the briefings.

[applegrove]

31. His son was talking to Kasich's and offering Kasich the vp job and said

that Kasich would be the most powerful vp in history and responsible for foreign and domestic policy.

[Hekate]

33. That was it

[bettyellen]

35. I'm starting to think that he's using his family as intermediaries so he can disavow anything they

Say or do as needed... kind of like Paulie in Goodfellas, he has his kids running around with messages. His whole strategic operation is lifted from The Art of War, Mein Kamf and The Godfather.

[raging moderate]

30. Tell him to say the data aloud while writing it down, and then type it logically.

I have a learning disability, and I was in despair at the end of high school and beginning of college, because I really did want to learn and to do something worthwhile with my life. Then I heard about this technique, and my grades SHOT UP! I was shocked and thrilled! Suddenly I was sitting at the table with the professors and their grad students, and remembering what I had studied. And then I got into grad school and earned a master's degree in a fairly demanding field. If you are young and learning-disabled, don't just give in to it. FIGHT IT! When I had children, I began teaching them about math as soon as they could sit up, at first just difference between 1 and 2 items. I knew I could never help them with their math when they were older, so I'd better help them when I could. They did very well in school and excelled in math. As older teens, they coached me through a college level math course, and I got a B! Really, you never know what you can do if you keep trying and don't give up! I finally had a 35 year career in a very satisfying field where I am sure I helped many people, especially children, and especially poor children.

[raging moderate]

32. PS I know that I should not be President of the United Stattes.

Why doesn't Donald Trump know that he should not be President of the United States?

[RKP5637]

34. Interesting technique!!! Thanks for sharing!!! n/t

[applegrove]

36. Yes. I had undiagnosed dyslexia but did well in university. I used to take notes

on my notes and the textbook, then notes on those notes, then again. Cutting them down in size until I had one page left which I would memorize. I also used colored markers. Dyslexia says nothing about IQ. It is just a different way for a brain to work. Dyslexics do well at NASA and MIT because of their 3D thinking. It helps to remember that until 300 years ago few people knew how to read so dyslexia's problems with symbols and words were not an issue. I hope they can figure out a way to brief him that works. And not just on intelligence - though that may be the most important. They gerryrigged a way to inform Ronald Reagan. They should blow the dust off that and see if 'delegation' will work again.

[Hekate]

37. You have a very inspiring story. My first husband was quite dyslexic...

... we met as freshmen in college in the days before there was a diagnosis. I helped edit a lot of his papers -- I could tell he was smart, but he did so badly in K-12 that he was told he would never go to college, much less graduate. He did graduate and ultimately enter a career he found fulfilling.

I like your approach. I myself am a kinetic learner: I take obsessive notes, rather than listening passively, and a lot of times I don't even need to actually reread the notes that keenly to remember them unless the material is really unfamiliar. Fortunately for me, all my high school teachers insisted on every student taking notes, so I learned it early.

Anyhow, as to why Trump doesn't avail himself of the techniques you mentioned: he has never had to, he's always been able to purchase other people's expertise. In addition, he has a yuuuuge narcissistic personality disorder, leading him to believe that no rules apply to him that apply to others.

[applegrove]

39. I don't think he has huge narcissistic personality disorder. I think he is just rich,

selfish and priviledged and a narcissist (different than a narcissistic personality disorder) and never grew up and is in sales (there is a whole culture to sales) and is a celebrity. Those with the actual disorder, which no longer exists, will make you weak and barf they are so warped. Trump is charming by many accounts. Yes he used racism to win but the whole GOP does, they just dress it up all nice and pretty. Yes he is a misogynist. I would not to be anywhere near him. He is certainly not an actualized person which would be the minimum you want in a president. But he used empathy to find out how the GOP base was hurting and play to them all election. He certainly plays to whomever he is talking to as dyslexics do - they meet with a specific person or group and pull up the what where when why of the person they are talking to from their episodic memory. They keep their narratives separate that way. Why Trump chokes every time he talks to the liberal press or the President of Mexico and takes the position of whatever expert or politician he last talked to. A nightmare as a President for sure.

[LongTomH]

43. Trust him with classified info???? I wouldn't trust that buffoon with sharp instruments!!!!

They should make him eat his thanksgiving dinner with a plastic spork!