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BRAD REED at Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/simple-europeans-used-colorful-cue-cards-explain-trade-trump/
"SNIP.........
European Union officials who flew to Washington, D.C. this week to try to negotiate a trade treaty with President Donald Trump knew that they couldnt present him with large sets of complicated information, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
Specifically, the Journals sources say that EU representatives made use of colorful cue cards that they thought would help keep the presidents attention during meetings. Each card contained what WSJ describes as simplified explainers that had at most three figures about a specific topic, such as trade in cars or standards for medical devices.
One European official speaking anonymously to WSJ reporters says that they knew theyd have to dumb things down compared to typical meetings they had with world leaders given the presidents penchant for getting distracted during meetings and presentations.
We knew this wasnt an academic seminar, the official says. It had to be very simple.
Last year, a White House confidant told the Washington Post that Trump only had enough patience to get through a half page of information during a meeting, and would often tune out of meetings if they lasted longer than just two minutes.
..........SNIP"
Some dyslexics (me included) are bad at learning the non concrete. Which is why Trump pulls down human constructs like trade agreements in favour of something he invents/sees/discouvers and gets: a system he is witness to. Then Trump adds his values and desire to win and the expence of others and connects to his racist base. At times it is good to redo the thinking on things. Most often in the West humans have invented and invested themselves in systems experts understand that should stand, with review, over time. Churchill (dyslexic) dismantled Hitler and was on him a decade before others because he did not buy the narratives Hitler spewed and saw what was happening to the German people: one third of Germans staying silent while another third destroyed or talked about destroying the last third. Trump is not knowledgeable enough to redo everything in government. Churchill did remake everything to put Britain on a war footing. He never tried that once the war was over when he was PM in the 50s. Trump is being a transactional president, which is taking politics back 300 years, as he dismantles the West and the enlightenment, while the GOP love it for the most part and even have suggestions of their own - such is the right's hatred for liberalism.
louis-t
(23,266 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)campaign he doesn't know Shit from Shinola. When he began requesting his PDBs in Pictures everyone in the Intelligence Community worth his/her salt should have quit and walked out. I would not have continued to babysit this ignorant fool for any amount of money. I love my country too much and if Mike Pompao had any integrity, he would have quit by now. Anyone remaining in that administration who think their careers and reputations will survive this administration, they are deluding themselves.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)agent, I would not sign up to protect this waste of space. My life means more than his.
Midnight Writer
(21,693 posts)whatever we put in front of him".
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)FakeNoose
(32,556 posts)Really makes me wonder.
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,940 posts)He can do his job in two minutes!!!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)a genius at shoveling horse manure in the stable? He shovels shit on a daily basis.
Nanjeanne
(4,915 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,798 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)gotta keep this simple.
yonder
(9,654 posts)pretty funny.
In other words, I snorted, snort.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)But not right now. This is just sad and embarrassing.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)Blue Owl
(50,238 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,095 posts)"Now, Donnie. This is Jacque. Jacque has a farm where he raises many fluffy sheep. Jacque has more sheep then he needs, so he'd like to sell some to his friends in America!"
BigmanPigman
(51,564 posts)I think he COULD do more than he does. He chooses to take the role of "I can't be bothered with this BS" attitude. Yes, Tillerson is right, he IS a fucking moron but that isn't the whole picture. He could be dyslexic and he could have ADD or ADHD. These are learning disabilities and there are ways to help overcome these as adults IF YOU WANT TO. He doesn't want to and he doesn't care. This isn't academic, it is his own personality and his narcissism. He does NOT CARE since he is superior to everyone and he is under the illusion that he is the best, smartest, strongest, most attractive, most masculine, best businessman on the planet.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)As a Reading Specialist, I've long felt Trump shows all the signs of dyslexia. My own brother is dyslexic, but it wasn't recognized when he was in school, and he's just a little younger than Trump. His I.Q. was actually higher than mine,, but I had an easy time in school and ended up just short of a doctorate. "Mike" really struggled and went to Viet Nam, in preference to college, even though our parents were willing to scrape to send him to one of the known, expensive but easy schools. I've known a LOT of dyslexics and some, especially if they have Trump's wealthy background, are content to get by. High priced colleges that wouldn't dream of offending rich parents in Trump's day, would have been happy to give him a degree.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I worked with Deaf-Blind children and I can tell your their thirst for knowledge and craving to learn puts this over-rated "genius" to shame eight days a week.
The man continues to be a national embarrassment on an epic scale.
The world is watching. History is recording all of this. Books are being written right now that will continue to bring us humiliation for decades.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)which argues against a very short attention span.
I think he simply resents someone else telling him something he won't admit that he does not know.
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)are from Garanimals?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)it takes everything in my power not to break down and laugh and cry (at the same time) at the absurdity and hopelessness or our current situation and how we wouldn't have be hearing about ANY OF THIS had just enough of the American public not taken stupid pills and elected this utter moron douchebag to the highest office in the country and a significant world leader. We could have had Hillary..........we could have had Hillary..........
iluvtennis
(19,826 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)will convince me that she would have been a same- or worse- choice than Donald Trump. A PET ROCK would a better choice than Donald Trump.
iluvtennis
(19,826 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)......on the world stage.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)The Conductor
(180 posts)When this embarrassing excuse and his cohort are impeached, I nominate my granddaughter. She's almost four, doesn't lose her temper over little things, remembers to write her name on all of her work, has never paid off anyone for anything, has no foreign entanglements or emolument clause violations, and never insults people.
That already makes her a better president than Putin's Puppet!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The Raw Story person just basically copied a few paragraphs from the WSJ article story and slapped their own reporters name on the byline and then added a clickbait headline, which is what they do.