Ok a 50 page memo? That’s pretty friggin long. Depends how many of those you get a day.
But:
I summed up this highly classified memo into Trump’s sort of bombastic language because it was the only way he was gonna understand," Taylor added. “I mean, I literally said in there, ‘You know, if we leave Afghanistan too fast, the terrorists will call us losers. But if we wanna be seen as winners, we need to make sure the Afghan forces have the strength to push back against these criminals.’ I mean, it was that dumb and that’s how you had to talk to him.”
No. The President of the United States of America needs to be able to internalize and contextualize the details of the current geopolitical climate over corn flakes. This “only human” bullshit has got to go.
Absolutely agree with you. The point I wanted to make is that there are different ways to summarise, say, in this example, a 50-page memo. The sad thing here is how the official needed to resort to the good versus evil false dichotomy. This oversimplification to have been required because, unfortunately, Trump is stupid.
I guess I’m saying that it’s a shame that there are probably a lot of smart people trying to make sense of all the geopolitics, picking things apart, critical thinking… but in the end it was all for nought; they had to appeal to someone - Trump - who never really wanted to, nor was able to, internalise or contextualise it.
Yeah I’m a normal human and I have no trouble reading at a highschool level why can’t the president do it?
A 50 Page memo is too long. It is relevant for the discussion of the details between the specialised people, so they reach a highly qualified opinion, but the cause and effects of different decision options need to be summarised on a few pages. Of course the president needs to be able to understand what the bullet points entail, but it is literally impossible for a president of a country the size of the US to read up on the details of every decision.
deep state n. 1. People in government who don’t stop doing their jobs just because there was an election; e.g. police and prosecutors who continue to pursue murderers without asking the new mayor whether to let that one go. 2. (Federal) People in government capable of reading at an 8th-grade level or higher.
Nothing new here. We heard things like this a few months into his presidency.
and even before it began. “Official close to the matter says that transition team briefings have to be written in crayon using words with fewer than three syllables. …”
And they have to make sure they don’t use any of the good tasting colours just in case Trump gets hungry while ‘drafting documents’.
At this point it’s like saying that water is wet.
I can’t be the only one not surprised by this
I’d be surprised if it doesn’t come out that he had to have people read documents to him. because he can’t read.
