Trump Briefings Reduced to the 'Syntactical Complexity of "See Jane Run"'

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Walter Shaub @waltshaub 1h1 hour ago
I feel like we're forced to pretend the emperor has clothes or critics label us impolite, partisan or Trump-like. (That last one is ironic because the same critics hold him and, in many cases, themselves to a lower standard.) But what does this excerpt say about his intelligence?

[PearliePoo2]

1. Tillerson had it right. He's a fucking moron.

God, I hope we survive this fool.

[LonePirate]

2. Anybody who watched/listened to any of his campaign speeches knew immediately he was an idiot.

The excerpt above does not surprise me at all. If anything, I am outraged that serious people in DC and the media did not already know of his idiocy.

[Docreed2003]

3. This should scare the shit out of every American

Our so called President is too illiterate, too distracted, or too disinterested to be bothered with real national security memos...

[kentuck]

4. Wow! Unbelievable!

[Cha]

5. I bet.. it shows out here across

the nation.

[ragemage]

6. ONE PAGE...With Pictures...

For whatever reason this is the one item that just makes me so irrational and angry about him (and yes there are many more but this one just sets me off)...he has to have one page briefings with pictures! So the NSC staff has to bend over backwards to reduce the world's complex issues down to a toddler book. And even that is too fucking complex for this guy.
Not even a full 8 x 11 notebook page...but cardboard stock that would literally be used in children's books.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Stable genius

[Toorich]

8. Holy shit......

Presidential flash cards. He'll want a personal copyright and make them mandatory curriculum through DeVose.

[Javaman]

9. I'll just leave this here...

[Botany]

10. A single page is too much?

When does this nightmare stop?

[Auggie]

11. Whos really running things? It isnt Trump.

[poboy2]

12. Morning Joe had a guy on claiming they send him 1 page PICTOGRAMS these days.

"He's a visual person'

Kinda like the signal calling of the Oregon Ducks FB team I imagine.

[panfluteman]

13. This National Nightmare Will Stop When American Voters Demand and Insist On

REAL competence in a president. And also when we stop dumbing down the country and fix our educational system. Perhaps a dumbass president is just a reflection of the sorry educational and intellectual state of the electorate at large. After all, an essential prerequisite for demanding and insisting real competence in a president is being able to recognize such in a presidential candidate - and that takes a certain level of education and competence in ourselves. I believe that all students in our public schools should be educated not just in American History and Civics, but also in Philosophy, Logic and Critical Thinking. Then they will have the necessary rationality and intellectual discernment to be able to tell when a politician is lying to them or BSing them, as well as being able to weigh in a more objective and rational manner the competing arguments and positions of the different presidential candidates. The one best secret weapon that we have to bolster the immune system of our democracy so that we are less susceptible to foreign interference or subversion is EDUCATION! Unfortunately, it is not exactly a quick fix; it will take many years to undo the damage that has been done by a failing educational system and reality TV.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. OMG!