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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Trump wouldn't know an FCC if he fell over one.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:27 AM
Nov 2017

Seriously, he has virtually 0 interest in anything he doesn't see as about him and, reportedly, a pathological inability to concentrate. Not only does he apparently average about a 2-minute attention span on those "other," presidential things, but he misses, forgets or just plain does not understand much of the stuff he's supposed to take in.

He reportedly frequently approves the last thing said to him, particularly when he's gotten bored with a topic and wants it over. The 6 or so factions around him are constantly fighting to be the first and the last.

Since he was always an outsider and doesn't know or even know of people to fill offices, and has no requirements beyond astonishingly stupid stuff, like physical appearance or noblesse oblige, his ultimate choices have almost all been presented to him by agents of other power centers.

And, of course, not knowing these people or anything about them guarantees he's frequently quickly bored in making these choices. That's reportedly a factor how he chose Comey's replacement as director of the FBI, btw. Wray was the last one of a series presented to him. (It's also a factor in the many offices he's never filled.)

So, if Trump didn't really choose this person he doesn't know, and he didn't, who did?

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