Trump, 'the solo golfer' ignoring his own advisers

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For the last 18 months, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other top national-security officials have mostly kept their heads down in public as they tried to quietly counsel President Trump. But this low-key consultation process seems to be weakening, as a headstrong president becomes increasingly insistent about his judgment.

The Helsinki summit showed that Trump thinks he’s his own best foreign-policy adviser. The formal interagency process that traditionally surrounds such big events all but disappeared for the U.S.-Russia encounter, with no full National Security Council meetings to prepare for Helsinki and none last week to discuss its results.

Trump chose to go it alone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, literally and figuratively. Officials who wanted to know what happened had to read the president’s tweets or White House press briefings.

“I don’t think there is an interagency process now,” cautioned one prominent Republican foreign-policy expert. “Trump glories in not listening to advisers. He trusts his instincts, as uninformed as they sometimes are.”

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and one of Trump’s closest informal advisers, outlined the challenge in an interview Tuesday: “A major problem for Trump is that he’s a golfer; he doesn’t play a team sport. The rest of the team has to know … what play you’re calling. In golf, it’s just between you and the ball. I think that’s a major weakness. … The world is far too complicated for one person to control everything.”

“It worries me,” added Gingrich, that Trump doesn’t consult more closely about Russia-related issues with officials such as Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. As of Monday, Dunford still hadn’t been briefed on Helsinki, even though it directly affects the hundreds of thousands of troops under Dunford’s command.

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A lot of people golf. Trump's problem is he's a dumbass who thinks he's some sort of genius.

[Moral Compass]

1. Gingrich can't get anything right!

Problem is not that Trump is a golfer. The problem is that he was born into wealth, was never disciplined as a child. and then was allowed to play king as the owner of a privately held company where no one could ever tell him him no. He had sufficient wealth to weather one self inflicted disaster after another and a complete lack of anything resembling ethics so he had no trouble taking
piles of money from the domestic and Russian mafia.

No real golfer would ever drive a golf cart onto a green or completely ignore the rules. He’s just a piece of scum.
His failures have nothing at all to do with being a golfer.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Yep, yep, it's definitely the golf thing. That's the whole problem here. The golf.

[lagomorph777]

3. Has Trump been making little solo rowboat excursions from his golf courses?

Perhaps late at night?