Trump: "I'm a smart person, don't need intelligence briefings every day"

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Thine Wonk

12-12-2016

Originally Posted by HappyJaney:
“Does business experience translate to this 'job' though? I think not, but that's just my opinion

I imagine Obama wasn't daft enough to tie himself up in unnecessary meetings but this is different isn't it... he also mocked Obama for not attending intel briefings on twitter not that long ago - something he now plans to do himself without the experience. He's received just two intel briefings since the vote, unheard of. Aides have wanted daily briefings on global developments and security threats,.... but no, he's too smart for that. Surely it would get him up to speed on world events, needed by the Donald given his lack of diplomacy already. Mind you ... he was dismissive of these agencies during the run up, but now it's at his (and the US's cost) surely...

Even Dubya had daily briefings at this stage!”

The people voted, it is up to him what he chooses to invest his time in whilst on his quest to make America better for the ordinary people who were fed up of losing jobs and seeing corporations send jobs offshore whilst the government pays job seeking benefits out for their people. Trump says 700,000 workplaces offshored in America and then had the cheek to sell back into the American market after sacking millions of workers and hiring them all offshore.

I think a lot of his ideas for reducing bureaucracy and focusing on the working people of America are very welcome by a large amount of people who feel they've been hung out to dry by previous US regimes. How many years have we gone on about 1 new runway at Heathrow? that is professional politicians, which you are suggesting are better and more experienced.

I think people are looking for any excuse to bash Trump because they don't like him. I don't suspect people really are concerned which meetings he attends, more that they want to post headlines that make him look stupid to follow the crowd and look clever when Trump bashing.

HappyJaney

12-12-2016

I'm not posting headlines, I'm just contributing to the thread with what I think about him not wanting to learn more by being briefed.

Yes the people did vote (even if millions more voted Democrat).

I care about what meetings he attends, I can't imagine why he isn't having these debriefs daily bearing in mind his ignorance at the moment, he needs to bring himself up to speed because - after all - how he conducts himself on the world stage will affect us all.

I'm not in it to look clever, I'm just concerned like hundreds of millions of other people across the world.

SegaGamer

12-12-2016

Originally Posted by blueblade:
“I wish it were Obama again for the next four years.”

I know that Trump is a moron and should never be president of America, but let's not pretend that Obama was so amazing. The guy has been more concerned about his image and being popular than anything else. The same goes with his wife. The best thing about Obama is that he talks well, a lot of it is a load of crap though.

Keyser_Soze1

12-12-2016

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mattlamb

12-12-2016

Intelligence briefings, ()whatever they amount to in the real world) are overrated anyway.

Nilrem

12-12-2016

Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“He is actually quite fair on the apprentice, which by the way is a show designed specifically to fire somebody each week as part of the format and to put people through the process as part of the show.

However I should imagine that his approach to public office will be quite different. I agree with his approach of getting things done, he's correct that China would build 9 stadiums / power stations / bridges for 1/4 the cost of what we would here in the UK or they would in the US, and that we would spend 9 years talking about 1 in the time China has built 9.
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Yes it's such a wonderful thing to live in a country where the government can say "we're going to do this", completely ignore what the population want, force people out of their property without any checks or balances, and then have dozens of workers die and hundreds more seriously hurt in site accidents because it's cheaper than paying for proper training and basic safety equipment.

I too miss the days of the old steam mills and the glory days of the American west where it didn't matter than you lost a couple of labourers a day due to easily prevented accidents, and you just picked up the body and carried on.

It's really amazing how much faster things go when your workforce is paid a fraction of the amount in the West, and where workplace safety is pretty much unheard of.
IIRC Beijing had 10 deaths at least during construction of it's stadium for the olympics, the UK had none, and Quatar is in the hundreds for it's World Cup construction.

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