My theory is that Kelly wanted some place he “knew” was safe from being seen, overheard, or recorded. Because theoretically the Situation Room is the most secure one in that building.
Oops.
So, why isn’t there a metal detector? I am very confident the White House could afford a really good one.
It’s just really hard to schedule a conference room - the Situation Room was the only space available.
Because I doubt that high-level government officials want to remove their keys and such every time they go into the room.
Plus, before this incident with a moron, I doubt the people in charge of securing the room ever envisioned a moron being hired by another moron and then doing moronic stuff.
My take as well. I can remember clearly the sturm and drang over: Omarosa? The chick from reality TeeVee? He’s hiring her? What the fuck is this idiot doing?
So, you know … go figure, huh. What the hell did everybody expect was going to happen? She wouldn’t kick the circus that is the Trump administration into the ridiculous? I expect nothing less from President Camacho.
Every run of the mill SCIF I’ve seen has “high level officials” doing just that. But maybe this room isn’t meant to be all that secure.
You’ve been to run-of-the-mill SCIFs that had metal detectors at the entry to the SCIF?
I’ve worked in numerous SCIFs and NONE of them had metal detectors at the entry points.
Aides regularly tell Trump not to call foreign leaders at odd hours due to time zones
And his follow-up tweets today are helpful: she’s vicious, stupid and wacky; but let’s keep her around because she says nice things about me!
Thank you, Mr. President … that clarifies things nicely.
If it puts Trump in prison, I’m prepared to forgive Oma.
OTOH I do hold having propelled Omarosa to celebrity status against him.
Dumbed down “intelligence” briefings.
Group intervention on “How the US Postal Service works” - unsuccessful.
Foreign trade official using color coded flash cards to explain international relations.
Not understanding “rivers” diverting water to the ocean (he did get the correct ocean).
Time zones are harder that he thought.
Unclear about the “swamp thing”. Do I fill it or empty it?
And a thousand other things noted during this thread. I despair.
Ah, that makes total sense.
And fits in with this White House’s lack of knowing anything. Cause doesn’t Kelly have his own office? With like doors that can close and stuff?
… ETA: or maybe his office was booked out for Trump’s naptime…
One of my favorite bits of byplay from twelve years of MAS*H:
Col. Henry Blake (MacLean Stevenson): Time zones! Time zones! Why do we even have Time Zones?
Radar (Gary Burghoff): Because the world is round and keeps rotating, sir.
Blake (Taken aback by the sudden rational explanation): Oh. I thought it was some kind of Army thing.
Part of the humor stems from an official being so ignorant of this basic fact of geography. Now that it’s real, it ain’t so funny anymore.
My guess is that Kelly knows that Trump has a recording device in Kelly’s office, and he wanted to go somewhere Trump couldn’t hear him say this:
I keep getting this Spock’s Beard vibe. Like I’ve teleported to a parallel universe where it’s a given that United States presidents are greasy real estate crooks who hire reality television personalities and Fox ‘News’ executives and run their administrations in such a way that everyone records everyone and backstabbing is common place as amoral underlings compete to be the most corrupt in an effort to get closer to the boss.
And that’s just the way it is, I suppose until I do whatever it was that Kirk did to get back from Crazy Land.
Well, if they could assassinate each other as means of gaining rank, at least there’d be some entertainment value.
I’ve quite a list of people (and others) I’d like to see in the Agony Booth.
Kirk caught Evil Spock with a logical contradiction, which caused his brain to spazz out and provoke a fit of Vulcan mating frenzy, the zen fooey. Least, that’s how I remember it.
Sadly, there’s no chance of that happening here. :dubious: