He’s said at least a couple of times that he’s negotiating these deals with himself and his advisors, and that after these “negotiations” are complete he will tell the other parties what their “deal” is.
Now it’s being reported that the intel people want to give Trump his presidential “daily” briefings in the format of a Fox News broadcast, complete with cartoons animations:
One idea is to make the briefing, which according to his schedule Trump has been taking less often than his predecessors, a video that looks like Fox News.
One idea that’s been discussed is possibly creating a video version of the PDB that’s made to look and feel like a Fox News broadcast, four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions said.
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One idea that has been discussed is to transform the PDB so it mirrors a Fox News broadcast, according to four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Under that concept as it has been discussed, the national intelligence director’s office could hire a Fox News producer to produce it and one of the network’s personalities to present it; Trump, an avid Fox News viewer, could then watch the broadcast PDB whenever he wanted.
A new PDB could include not only graphics and pictures but also maps with animated representations of exploding bombs, similar to a video game, another one of the people with knowledge of the discussions said.
“The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read,” said another person with direct knowledge of the PDB discussions. “He’s on broadcast all the time.”
I guess paring the daily intelligence briefings down to a single page of bullet points was still too challenging for Trump to absorb.
IIRC, in Trump’s first term they started him out with the usual few pages of text which were similar in scope and complexity to what previous Presidents received. It was whittled down to a single page of bullet points before the end. And now that’s not even simple enough.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
I don’t recall the document filed that started the “USA Civil War” in 1861, and though this is likely mostly Thomas Jefferson’s authorship and not the Constitution (which I believe somewhere says no civil wars), I reckon this line of argument/thinking allows for any number of “Blue states” to leave. At least on the left and right of the USA the proposed (by Trump) 51st state might be able to assist.
Or all of this is crazy-seditious thinking so come and get me somewhere in Europe or save time by sending me a plane ticket to San Salvador.
That reminds me of a similar problem his handlers had with Bush II, except he also refused to watch the news. Apparently he ignored the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for some time because he refused to look at either the news or standard intelligence reports, until they finally came up with a short video digest version he’d sit down for.
An interesting comparison with the last record holder for stupidest US President, I think.
(Recall when Bush II came across as implausibly stupid for a US President? Yeah, I miss those days.)
W was affably stupid. He was not in this Og Smash! mode all the fucking time. He was not this infantile narcissist who cannot handle any dissent. And, in its way, that was worse, because he was able to carry out significant damage without looking like a total baffoon. Reasonable, decorous assholes can be as much of a problem as screaming, diapered infants, sometimes moreso.
Sure seems he is more nuts than usual. While Trump did not personally say this he uncritically shared it.
Not content with spreading conspiracy theories on Friday night, late on Saturday night, Trump shared a post by a supporter to his Truth Social page that claimed Biden was killed in 2020. The post reads, “There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. Democrats dont know the difference.”
The instructions for that application should be a fun read.
“I vow to uphold the constitution the way Trump says it reads and will do my utmost to implement the excutive orders Trump, my favorite president, has issued in the past or will issue in the future, including thoe which have been declared or shall be declared uncostitutional.”