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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Tweets Military Ban After 10 Minutes Thought
TRUMP TWEETED TRANSGENDER MILITARY BAN AFTER JUST 10 MINUTES THOUGHT FOLLOWING BRIEFING, BOOK ALLEGESBY CHRISTIANNA SILVA ON 1/5/18 AT 3:48 PM
President Donald Trump has spent the past six months attempting to ban transgender personnel from the military, after apparently spending just ten minutes on the decision, according to a new tell-all book by Michael Wolff.
Wolffs book, In Fire and Fury, alleges that President Trump attended a meeting in which his advisors presented him with four different options related to the militarys transgender policy.
Wolff doesnt say what the four different options were, but that the presentation was meant to frame an ongoing discussion, not to land with a final decision that day. But, instead of consulting with more advisors, or the Pentagon, or the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Trump took immediate action to move back an Obama-era policy which allowed transgender troops to serve openly in the military.
But ten minutes after receiving the discussion points, and without further consultation, Trump tweeted his transgender ban, Wolff wrote. Trump was frustrated that day, according to the book. It followed his speech to the Boy Scouts of America that prompted the group to apologize to its members, their parents, and the entire country. The following morning, when the meeting took place, Wolff described Trump as seething when he wrote in a string of tweets:
After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.
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Trump Tweets Military Ban After 10 Minutes Thought (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2018
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Ilsa
(61,695 posts)1. I had a shoot-from-the-hip boss ages ago.
Just like DOTUS. He was a disaster.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)2. The Donald Trump Thought Process, simplified:
What did President Obama do? -----------> I'll do the opposite.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)3. Yep.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)7. Obama didn't resign or get impeached.
Just a suggestion.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)9. Or, alternatively
I'm pissed. X will make me feel better, so I'll do X.
Doesn't matter if X is good, bad or indifferent. It will make Trump feel better right this second, so X it is!
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)4. Impulsive, irrational, ignorant.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. I don't think Commander in chief Bone Spurs
is qualified to make any military decisions up to and including where to put in new latrines on bases!
cojoel
(957 posts)6. Ten minutes is a long time for someone like Trump
That has to be the outer boundary of his attention span.
tanyev
(42,558 posts)8. That's nine minutes and 58 seconds longer than I thought.