Vox - Leaks are the only effective way to get anyones attention in the Trump administration

[TomCADem]

Good explanation of why leaks are rampant in the Trump administration. It is because Trump is Trump and he hates to pay attention, hates bad news, and loves to shoot the messenger.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/19/15662842/trump-leaks-stop

Imagine you’re a somewhat senior government official — one who doesn’t get a lot of face time with the president, but who has access to pretty important information — and you need to send a message to President Donald Trump.

You can try to write him a memo, or get the message into a briefing paper his staff is preparing. But the staff is trying to squeeze a ton of information into the incredibly narrow aperture of “what the president is actually going to read.”

Your message had better be less than a page (ideally a lot less, so that it can fit on a page with all the other messages all the other officials like you are trying to send). It had better include a visual aid — a map is good.

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Or you can go the easier route: you can just leak the information to someone so that it ends up on Fox & Friends.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Makes sense.

Trump puts the POS in POTUS.

[herding cats]

2. Yep. Leaks have literally become a form of communication in the WH under Trump.

The War of WH Leaks is reaching the level of something George RR Martin would have penned.

It reminds me of those asinine commercials when I was a kid where they broke an egg in a skillet and equated it to your brain on drugs. Picture the same visual with this narration: This is the US governmeant on Trump.