...Trump skips president's written intelligence report and relies on oral briefings

[DonViejo]

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Source: The Washington Post


Breaking with tradition, Trump skips presidents written intelligence report and relies on oral briefings

By Carol D. Leonnig, Shane Harris and Greg Jaffe February 9 at 10:02 AM

For much of the past year, President Trump has declined to participate in a practice followed by the past seven of his predecessors: He rarely if ever reads the Presidents Daily Brief, a document that lays out the most pressing information collected by U.S. intelligence agencies from hot spots around the world.

Trump has opted to rely on an oral briefing of select intelligence issues in the Oval Office rather than getting the full written document delivered to review separately each day, according to three people familiar with his briefings.

Reading the traditionally dense intelligence book is not Trumps preferred style of learning, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

The arrangement underscores Trumps impatience with exhaustive classified documents that go to the commander in chief material that he has said he prefers condensed as much as possible. But by not reading the daily briefing, the president could hamper his ability to respond to crises in the most effective manner, intelligence experts warned.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/breaking-with-tradition-trump-skips-presidents-written-intelligence-report-for-oral-briefings/2018/02/09/b7ba569e-0c52-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?utm_term=.e222e2d2f7fd&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--al

[FailureToCommunicate]

1. Relying on others to bring him summaries...what could go wrong?

[niyad]

44. PERFECT!!!

[The Blue Flower]

49. Funny, but there is no spell that can bring il drmpf back to humanity

His soul is shriveled and lives in darkness. He feeds on ignorance, criminality, and cruelty. He's done this to himself.

[FailureToCommunicate]

60. No soul is beyond redemption...

with the certain EXCEPTION of that evil, orange mussolini.

[Ligyron]

57. You get a heart for that.

Perfect!

[FailureToCommunicate]

59. ...

[PJMcK]

2. Reading is for losers

Trump has the best brain. He's, like, a really smart person. He doesn't need to read because he already knows everything. Just ask him.

[mpcamb]

19. And there's Faux News...

[erronis]

46. Can't they put the daily briefing in the chyron at the bottom of the faces ranting?

Ooooh. I love using that word - so few chances otherwise.

I would suggest that the abbreviated, vetted, daily briefing just be interspersed in smaller font so as to not distract the poor dotard. Maybe even subliminally.

I'm sure the fux news organization wouldn't tamper with the contents of the briefing, especially after it had been blessed by vlad.

[PoorMonger]

3. But of course.

It’s taken him a week to get through that big intimidating 10 page memo that those big brain Dem’s sent over.

[trusty elf]

4. Outrageous

[yonder]

41. Funny photo, with a bunch of cleverly hidden sight gags, about sums it up.

My favourite: the rolled up Forbes magazine in Sarah's left hand. Just don't try to imagine what she may be aiming to do with it. All funny in a black humour way, being as how hopeless I've felt the last year.

A president who chooses not to read, what could go wrong? Never required to think or work too hard while everything was/is handed to him -- what a coddled ass. I just can't shake the feeling that we're toast.

[LeftInTX]

45. I love these kinds of photos

Thanks for pointing this out. Haven't had my cofeve yet....

I like the two vultures outside.

I can't make out who are in the framed photos.

[yonder]

47. At first glance, I was thinking they were turkeys.

Vultures make more sense, though. And the photo on the right? Ivanka? Ugh!

[Liberalagogo]

5. Answer:

The Shithole has no ability to read nor any intelligence.

[mac56]

6. He can't read.

[underpants]

7. Ala W.

W at least did read them except for the HEY DUMBASS WE'RE ABOUT TO GET ATTACKED!!! One.

[keithbvadu2]

39. When the 3:00am call comes in, Donald will already be awake. But he will be too busy tweeting to an

When the 3:00am call comes in, Donald will already be awake.

But he will be too busy tweeting to answer the phone.

[Rhiannon12866]

61. That was my first thought, too...

[Volaris]

54. No I think he read that one too, said I don't give a fuck and kicked it over to cheney,

Who promptly saw the perfect opportunity to re-patriate Shock Doctrine.

[Xipe Totec]

8. His preferred style of learning is to not. nt

[Lindsay]

28. So exactly

this.

[muriel_volestrangler]

42. That's right. In one ear, out the other. It's why he's so vulnerable to saying whatever the last

person to get his attention has said. And to contradicting himself so often. It's no way to run a company, let alone a country. Even if he wasn't such a vindictive and narcissistic SoB, he'd be a disaster as president.

[3catwoman3]

51. Bing-fucking-O!!!

Ignorance is bad enough. Willful ignorance coupled with arrogance is dangerous.

[lunasun]

9. So just co presidenting ? Who is summarizing ?

[lagomorph777]

17. Rob Porter. But Porter doesn't have a clearance so he can't read it either.

So it's perfect.

[yonder]

43. the Kelly/Miller show?

[hedda_foil]

10. That might work if he knew how to listen.

[getagrip_already]

11. Too Dumb to be President......

Really. Get rid of him. Impeach, lather, repeat.

[iluvtennis]

20. Indeed.

[steve2470]

12. he's just too fucking lazy and stupid to be President, much less a CEO of his own company

President Obama puts this idiot to shame in every way.

[catbyte]

13. "Oral Briefings" like Fox & Friends & Hannity?

[Blue_Tires]

14. We elected an illiterate president...

I take back all those jokes I made about George W. Bush's intellect for eight years...

By comparison, Bush is a Rhodes Scholar

[steve2470]

15. +1 nt

[pandr32]

22. No kidding!

By contrast, he is an intellectual.

[maddiemom]

24. And more clueless than actually mean and vindictive.

Well..maybe he was re: Sadam.

[erronis]

48. But as easily manipulated by the dark forces that were in his cabinet and advisors.

[LisaM]

52. Bush was kind of like that, too, though.

Remember how he was very proud of his so-called ability to make quick, snap decisions, rather than thinking about it and making measured ones?

He also took the whole month of August 2011 off. How he was essentially given a pass on 9/11 still baffles me.

[rurallib]

16. I am actually surprised he doesn't have his underlings make it into a puppet show

[lagomorph777]

18. The part of Trump is played by Mr. Bill

Oooooh Noooooo!

[pandr32]

21. He is so hopelessly out of his league

...and has no business in the Oval Office. I guess reading off a teleprompter is one thing--he doesn't have to have any real comprehension and is little more than a trained monkey.
No way has he the concentration and comprehension to read briefings. He can pretend to listen to oral ones while thinking of Gawd knows what! I'd hate to know what is in his so-called mind at any given time.

[IronLionZion]

23. We went from a constitutional law professor to an illiterate piece of shit

If he can't read the briefings then he should stay out of all crises and let others handle it.

[Gothmog]

25. Trump is illiterate and is too stupid to read a report

[rurallib]

26. I wonder if the summarizers bother to read the documents or just make it up?

If Trump-dump won't read them how would anyone ever know if the briefer read the material either. Maybe he o she just gets it from Fox also if they even bother to learn anything themselves.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. God help us if he learns about the death of the Brazillian soldiers.

[Ferrets are Cool]

37. He will just wonder

if it's a requirement of our female cadets to get a brazilian before they enlist.

[CatMor]

29. He doesn't read because he can't comprehend what he read

and I have a feeling he can't remember what he was told by his aides past a few hours.

[livetohike]

36. I agree. Its frightening. I miss having a President

who was “all there”.

[Enoki33]

30. The more we learn, the more we have to be fearful.

[MBS]

34. " " " " n/t

[Weed Man]

31. All oral briefing will now consists of

"Will you force Pence to resign then kill yourself?" questions

On a daily basis.

Trump, by osmosis, will figure it out and get the job done.

By then, Paul Ryan won't have the Speaker position because he'll be long gone.

[LongTomH]

32. He thought they said "Intelligence Test" and he.....

knew better than to take a test that would prove what an moron he is!

[MBS]

33. Not a surprise, but still downright scary. n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

35. But, but, but...

what about all those piles and piles of paperwork he was BRAGGING about on his desk during a posed photo shoot?

Fucking idiot PGIC

[Butterflylady]

38. He has no reading comprehension.

How did he ever get thru college? Oh yeah, daddy must have paid them a good amount to get that diploma. In any case, they owe him a refund.

[SujiwanKenobee]

40. Does he have a learning disability?

I wonder if he might have dyslexia or something along certain lines that led him to so dislike anything to do with reading. Part of his anti-intellectual thing may be an emotional cover for his inability to master more than rudimentary skills and rely on "street smarts' instead. then he would denigrate those who excelled at what he could not do.

[kwassa]

56. I think he has an attention deficit disorder.

Everyone who works with him says that he can only focus on something for a few minutes.

This is aside and separate from his narcissistic personality disorder.

[Hassler]

50. The Laziest Man Alive

When even the Cliff Notes are too long, there's a paid flunky to read them to you.

[Volaris]

53. Because things like nuance and details are for cucks, apparently.

Menken(sp?) was right. The 'people' got their way and so now there's a downright moron in the White House.

[Cold War Spook]

55. What did he mean by

"I like bullets or as little as possible".

[Blue_Tires]

58. THERE IS A TRUMP TWEET FOR LITERALLY EVERYTHING

Link to tweet

[KewlKat]

62. Perhaps it would be easier on everyone if they just gave the info to Faux and Fiends

He seems to watch and listen to what those fake news spreaders say.