To prepare for his trip, Trump has been meeting with briefers including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster, deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Conversations with some officials who have briefed Trump and others who are aware of how he absorbs information portray a president with a short attention span.
He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos.
National Security Council officials have strategically included Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he's mentioned," according to one source, who relayed conversations he had with NSC officials.
I'm pretty tired of hearing about every single of scoop of ice cream Trump ever had.
Why don't we talk about a guy named Seth Rich instead? I bet there's way more than just ice cream in his life.
Connor Perez
>He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos. Who doesn't? makes shit a lot easier to remember
Ayden Edwards
I am a visual learner. I associate images with facts. I do not absorb straight information. I don't think the photo even matters....If I have never seen the photo or read the info, I will always associate the 2. You could write me a dissertation about pre-cambrian life and include a photo of snoopy the dog, and I would forever be ruined by Charles Schultz.
Caleb Parker
>He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos.
I would too.
Juan Cooper
Another (((Anonymous))) source.
Asher Russell
That's how CEOs work a one-page strategy you fucking moron.
Ethan Bennett
that's just him being old. if you ever had dealings with old guys you know how they roll
Zachary Perez
Hey look, it's another (((anonymous source))). Why do hard journalism when you can just interview imaginary people?
Jaxon Murphy
>single of scoop of ice cream Scoops takes two, not singles. You Trumptards are so dumb.
wait, is the story fake or is it OK that trump acts this way?
i am having a hard time when you guys use two different chapters of the Trump Dickriding Playbook at the same time
Logan Powell
No one wants to hear beaucrats drone on & on. Shit these meetings must be dull as fuck. No wonder he wants it short, sweet, & with visual aid. No need to make it 20 minutes when you can get what you're saying in 5.
James Bell
This. Having enough pages in a briefing to make a novel is how shit gets fucked up.
Jayden Mitchell
>every single of scoop of ice cream >lets talk about rich goy, ignore trump he's based!
James Robinson
His own staff despise him and are fucking terrified of his idiocy leading to disaster, which is why they leak his insane bullshit.
Lincoln Young
It is fake, but even if it wasn't, who cares? It's literally nothing.
Nathan Reyes
Sounds like you need one page memos and visual aids.
Leo Allen
>And the bait was too subtle.
William Rivera
he'll have more time to for tv and golf! based trump!
Juan Green
>Trump will literally NEVER sign away DACA, and has stated that he is willing to offer path to citizenship for DREAMers
Thanks a lot bros, you are our saviors. This probably wouldn't have happened if Hillary won and Congress was Republican-majority
David Carter
This
Owen White
>trump wants concise and well written reports that leave out unimportant details >Instead of spending six paragraphs describing a location, just use a fucking map >Sure, you could write a 20 page report on where security personnel are stationed...or you could just take a picture and say 'There'
It sounds like he's someone who's worked in the private sector literally ever.
Mason Torres
>National Security Council officials have strategically included Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he's mentioned," according to one source, who relayed conversations he had with NSC officials. kek, you know this is true, tells the whole sad story.
Ryan Moore
Picture is worth a thousand words. With the number of satellite imagery, unless its inside of a top secret bunk on bottom the ocean, there should be no excuse not to have something. Even a drawn diagram is better than words.
Bentley Green
Trump
These people are the bad people Mr. Trump
Mr. Trump we should bomb them, Mr. Trump
Trump Trump Trump just say yes and you can go back to the Trump golf resort
Ayden Diaz
>Visual reconnaissance is for children
I mean, the ability to just take a picture of enemy positions is probably one of the most significant military advancements in history, but yeah, sure.
Chase Butler
>He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos. So he likes visual aids and information without ass loads of filler? How horrible
Austin Gutierrez
This is what I don't get. Attempts to make Trump look "stupid" because he uses something the average American would prefer isn't going to make him look bad to average Americans. This is basic.
Cooper Martin
Even if all this is true, it still means Trump is far more engaged with his Presidential daily briefings than Presidents Obama or Clinton were. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a good President. You just have to give half a shit.
Connor Kelly
yeah, because they never thought of summarizing shit before trump got elected
top tier retard
Parker Taylor
The irony is so thick, you could cut it with a knife.
Well, not you, but someone. It's probably better if you don't play with knives.
Jeremiah Long
yes, thats definitely what the article is about and trump is definitely breaking new ground in integrating photos into his briefings
Levi Adams
>literally Oh look, another low IQ libtard that doesn't understand what the word literally means.
It a bit much to use this to portray Trump as a moron when I'm pretty sure all presidents (and all world leaders) have similar setups. This on the other hand...
Ayden Flores
The correct word is figuratively, FIGURATIVELY! you eternally retarded buttfag.
First graders are LITERALLY under the age of ten.
You even posted the fucking definition, oblivious to your own lack intelligence. You are too stupid to be allowed to live. Kys at once.
Gavin Collins
You are literally retarded
Gavin Nelson
>He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos. >tfw my boss is a first grader too
Hunter Clark
>pol is one person
Cooper Mitchell
>literally >literally >literal >ly
Nolan Williams
You sound like the kind of idiot who thinks having an encyclopedia set worth of tax codes is a brilliant idea. Information should be presented in a concise and coherent manner but the government is filled with goons who don't get it. It's not like the past several presidents have been better informed because of excessive information anyway.
Nathaniel Bailey
The point of using literally to describe something in a modern context when it isn't actually true is to exaggerate a characteristic. For example, telling someone they're literally autistic when they act like an autist even though they aren't is meant to exaggerate the characteristics they have that make them seem autistic or act like an autistic person.
Chase Sullivan
Not to defend a man about to be impeached but visual learning and short bursts of information is actually a very efficient way of retaining information.
Do you really think Theresea May even reads the huge binders she's given every morning and not the summary, and do you think she even remembers that summary and not just the key points to talk about?
Keep in mind all these people are 60+ years old and probably can't remember when their birthday is.
Connor Lewis
If you talk shit instead of making arguments we know you are a shill. There are 20 million of us, and we all know this. All you are doing is pissing into an ocean
Benjamin Parker
>He likes single-page memos and visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos. So he likes efficient information distribution and well prepared people who do it. Gee whizz, who knew that a millionaire businessman would be like that? Long pages of texts are for secretaries, not people in executive positions you pathetic pleb.
Asher Hughes
Huh, ain't that something.
Ryder Jenkins
Woah don't even try to educate these democrats. Don't waste your time. Those fascist trannies can't make arguments, they can only talk shit because they were acculturated with project mockingbird. They do not want to think, they just want to sing along. I know that it's irritating; the fact that they are clearly illiterate because they cannot delineate between figurative and literal language. It sucks. But the truth is they won't be here for long, and in the mean time we are all based in agency, which they don't have nor even comprehend. They still don't understand that we are trading in different social capital than them, if they even know what that is. We don't trade in approval, that's for sure. So if they don't listen and we don't listen, don't waste your time. A problem that cannot be solved is not a problem.
Tyler Hill
gotta be tough trying to con someone who doesn't read your propaganda.
Jaxson Cruz
This shit again
NEVER EVER EVER go into a meeting with reeks of information
You need to simplify your position and deliver in just a few short minutes
Do any of these people have real jobs? I mean fuck reporters are supposed to know how to communicate! In expert in communication would always suggest short billeted points and graphics when you are presenting/ making an argument face to face
Jesus Christ I wish we had traditional schooling where logic, philosophy and rhetoric was actually taught
Adam Gutierrez
Both you retarded faggot. It's not that hard to understand
Jordan Murphy
> anonymous source
Every time
Jeremiah Carter
and now we have Betsy Devos.
THANKS TRUMP
Cameron Moore
...
Adam Scott
he does seem pretty simple. wasn't there some analysis done of his vocabulary that showed it was like 3rd grade level?
Blake Long
it's called an executive summary. all the details and fine points are forest for the trees issues. As a CEO you hammer on the main points and if something is important enough to impact those main points then it better fucking fit on that summary. If you are incapable of doing that you just suck at communication and will go nowhere in life without being dragged there by others... who have their own agenda.
Sebastian Williams
Anytime anyone wants to give him info he always asks for the quick rundown. He asks redpill me on x in 3 sentences quick.
Nathan Martin
You mean retarded? Then yes. Literally gumballs
Brody Sanchez
Average American here. Trump looks like that "so rich, can't even wipe his own ass" kind of stupid
Nathaniel Foster
Are people really so stupid that they can't understand that no President has the time to get into the gory details of every decision that has to be made? A leader isn't a micromanager. A leader gets enough information to make the broad decision about the direction, then delegates the details, and only gets involved when necessary.
Jonathan Watson
Guy is 70 years old, give him a break
Brandon Anderson
>Long winded briefings aren't entirely that way so you can't follow what's being said >Short concise briefings can't be held to an exact point
Sure is hooked nosed itt
James Taylor
Way to ignore the part where they include Trump's name in as many paragraphs as possible to keep him interested. It's been known for a long time Trump has absolutely no attention span, the guy who actually wrote Art of the Deal said the same thing back in July 2016, so it's not like this is new information.
Colton Gomez
This, he wants quick rundowns with vital info. That's how I want my info as well.
Thomas Lopez
So? What difference to you does it make if he has a great attention span or not? What if he has a mild version of ADD? Still less of a disability than Obama, being half black and all.
Luke Flores
>being efficient makes you a first grader
Joseph Rivera
I do this shit on conference calls all the time. Just pay attention to the shit you need to do and get on with it.
Jaxson Powell
SETH RICH IS ALL YOU SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT
Mason Brown
Having to mention Trump as often as possible in national security briefings that have nothing to do with him just so he'll stay interested is far beyond mild ADD, it's some of the worst narcissism I've ever heard of.
If he can't be bothered to care about details even a very little, he'll struggle to ever work with Congress and not get whatever he wants passed. That's what happened with the first attempt to pass the AHCA.
Again, having to make everything about him to keep him interested should not be an issue with the President of the United States.
Oliver Peterson
ITT: people who have no experience in leadership roles say "BUT IT'S A GOOD THING THAT HE REFUSES TO READ AND IS TOTALLY IGNORANT OF DETAIL."
Yeah, you can probably just read the executive summary on the amendment to the security procedures governing the exact height at which security cameras are bolted to the wall. But! If all you do is trust executive summaries you will be easily led by your "trusted" advisers because you will never be able to pick when they're feeding you bullshit and serving their own interests - or even just when their strong beliefs get in the way of rationality. Your own expertise is a check on the biases of your advisers. Their job is to advise. Your job is to collate that advice and judge it on its merits so that you can distil good policy - and that requires knowing the detail that enables good judgements.
Andrew Allen
That's just like your opinion man.
Parker Hill
This is literally a sign of autism
Lucas Stewart
Yet he is president don't forget trumps business empire doubt a first grader can do that.
Michael Smith
I forgot to mention this is probably how Trump got that soldier killed. One group of Officers would have been gunning for the mission, another would have been urging restraint. Trump was swayed by the advice of the gunners, probably because it was merely presented more convincingly rather than being more sound, and someone else paid the price.
Thomas Morales
btf0 how will trumpblumppump ever win the election nowwwwwww!! :^^^))))))))
Thomas Gomez
rekt him sawkcucka!
Asher Ramirez
>graduated with a B.S. in Economics from Wharton
Nah. That shit is tough.
Nicholas Cox
>Trump is a retard; he only got a degree from one of the best business schools in the world, build a real estate empire, became a billionaire, ran one of the most successful reality tv shows, and successfully won the Presidency against all odds because he was lucky
Evan Garcia
DROMAL DFFROMPFP HAS HAD TOO MANY SCOOPS
Zachary White
OMG. And you far right frogposters are PROUD of this orange idiot!
We literally could've had a highly experienced woman with a genius level IQ. You racist cucks gave us a soulless, blind, stupid motherfuckers who will probably get caught chewing crayons next because he mistakes them for Putin's cock. Somehow you still cackle when feminists talk internalized misogyny without seeing how bad it fucking fucked us.
This shit is an embarrassment.
It's brutal.
It's fucking tragedy.
I want to personally sucker punch every last far right pantshitter who cost us Hillary. This country could be getting healthcare right now instead of wasting its energy chasing down a Russian owned fuckwit, but instead we're fucked while babydicks continue to laugh and meme all the way to impeachment.
Charles Adams
You're a fucking idiot if you think that was even a decision worth his time. We're engaged in military ops in half the world and you expect him to spend hours mulling over potentially losing a couple of volunteers in a single raid?
Noah Jones
>itt shills that have never been in a briefing The president shouldn't have to suffer death by powerpoint.
Sage
Jackson Reyes
>You're a fucking idiot if you think that was even a decision worth his time. I'm not the fucking idiot attempting to deny he made the decision.
Ethan Carter
whataboutism at its finest
Gavin Perez
Do the dingos know you stole their wifi you abbo piece of shit?
James Murphy
>paid degree by daddy >inherited everything nearly went bankrupt with it >a chimpanzee would become billionaire with the property assets his father left him with >lol americans are proud of their faggy reality shows >lost by 3 mill against the worst, most hated candidate of all time
Trump is funny. Like slapstick, shit-in-his-pants funny. That's the only thing I like about him desu.
Landon Ross
lol drumpfy is stupid. none of the other presidents needed briefing before visiting other countries
Grayson Bennett
MAKE SURE YOU BOW AND AT THE DINNER, LIMIT ICE CREAM TO TWO SCOOPS
Cooper Murphy
PRACTICE THESE CRUNCHING EXERCISES TO IMPROVE YOUR BOWING
Mason Scott
NEVER LOOK THEM IN THE EYE, IT'S A SIGN OF AGGRESSION
Nolan Green
KNOW YOUR PLACE
Leo Bell
...
Connor Sullivan
BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE
Christopher Walker
nice bait faggot
Jacob Thomas
My race has literally zero relevance to my argument you fat fuck.
I'm going to keep posting here and you cannot do a fucking thing to stop me.
Bentley Martinez
Why not just have a good huff and a nap? You're clearly out of place.
Justin Hall
Both sides are retarded, fuck all of you.
Evan Ross
Are you fucking retarded, this is how you're SUPPOSED to report info to higher ups. Have they ever had a real job in their lives?
Sebastian White
>reddit spacing
Christopher Powell
Reagan was known for one-page memos. Short attention span or getting to the point?
