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applegrove

(118,019 posts)
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 06:53 PM Jul 2017

White House officials forced to crack jokes and kiss ass to keep Trumps attention during briefings:

TRAVIS GETTYS at Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/white-house-officials-forced-to-crack-jokes-and-kiss-ass-to-keep-trumps-attention-during-briefings-report/

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McMaster, a U.S. Army lieutenant general, has learned he can keep the president’s attention by peppering his briefings with jokes and references to Trump’s name, colleagues say.

His deputy, Dina Powell, is especially good at this, White House officials say, and engages Trump by bringing up theories he believes in and things he’s said in the past.

Economic adviser Gary Cohn, a rumored replacement for chief of staff Reince Priebus, has also switched to a more conversational style when briefing Trump on official business, the website reported.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin grabbed the president’s attention during one recent briefing on Chinese currency manipulation by flattering his importance.


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White House officials forced to crack jokes and kiss ass to keep Trumps attention during briefings: (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2017 OP
A child, a child who is taking orders from a murderer. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #1
Donny a GOOD boy! NastyRiffraff Jul 2017 #2
This is beyond ridiculous. narnian60 Jul 2017 #3
Dear God and this is who is charged with running a superpower. justhanginon Jul 2017 #4
Sounds like what I did frogmarch Jul 2017 #5
So they all play jester to the boy king. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #6
We really are living "It's a Good Life" bellmartin Jul 2017 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. A child, a child who is taking orders from a murderer.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 06:55 PM
Jul 2017

Who is appointing people who are destroying the country and the environment.

But, as bad as it is, better than ... ... oops, cant talk about that

justhanginon

(3,287 posts)
4. Dear God and this is who is charged with running a superpower.
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 06:59 PM
Jul 2017

A mental dimbulb with no attention span should worry not only the citizens of the U.S. but the whole world. Couple that with rashness of action with the ability to launch a nuclear strike on a whim and methinks civilization has a problem.

frogmarch

(12,145 posts)
5. Sounds like what I did
Fri Jul 21, 2017, 07:01 PM
Jul 2017

when my kids were babies. I made a choo choo with the spoon when I fed them their baby food.

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