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Turbineguy

(37,331 posts)
1. He has helpers
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 02:24 PM
Jul 2019

Their task is to preclude him from making an ass of himself. Why don't they brief him in advance?

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
6. He refuses to be briefed because that would be too much like 'work.'
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 03:08 PM
Jul 2019

I feel sorry for them. The State Department has all these protocol specialists, whose only job is to brief the President and others on the background information to the people he's meeting, and protocols on how to treat them.

But this lout refuses to be briefed, figuring that his brilliant PERSONALITY should be enough to carry him through any situation. Same thing in his 'negotiations' with Kim etc.

He's the first President to refuse his daily intelligence briefings. But most people were relieved by that, figuring the LESS he knows about what's happening THE BETTER. That's one thing. But this is different. This kind of thing is just humiliating for the whole country.

Both Reagan and Bush Jr. were morons, but at least they KNEW they were clueless, and took advice from people who WEREN'T clueless. What sets Trump apart is that he's a moron who THINKS he's a genius. The worst possible combination.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
14. president Obama would have already known why she received the Nobel Peace Prize
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 07:23 PM
Jul 2019

He would have known all her family were murdered and how and by who. It’s possible he would have known the names of her mother and brothers.

President Obama would have stood and showed respect and deference and he would have put an arm around her if protocol allowed it. He would have definitely known the protocol.

It’s quite possible that his sympathy would have caused her to cry a little, and seeing that he would have teared up too.

I’m so sorry she didn’t have Obama there instead of Trump.

Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
4. Trump's aide: "It's right next to Burma."
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 02:54 PM
Jul 2019

Actually, Burma is now called Myanmar, but what the hell. To Trump, it's just some "shithole country" someplace in the world outside of the White House, Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, and probably doesn't have any golf courses.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
7. I noticed that,too. If that guy was a political appointment (Seb Gorka style) it's probably that he
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 03:12 PM
Jul 2019

doesn't KNOW it's been called Myanmar since 1989. But if he was an actual advisor from the State Department, he probably figured the chances were zero that Trump would know where Myanmar is; and PRACTICALLY zero that he'll know where Burma is, too. But the only other option was to call it "that place where Alec Guinness built a bridge in 'Bridge on the River Kwai.'"

 

Larrybanal

(227 posts)
8. and it is not next to
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 03:25 PM
Jul 2019

the rohingha crisis is happening IN myanmar (ex burma) not next to it but really he doesn't care about any of their problems or stories...he just wants to know how she managed to take HIS nobel peace prize

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
5. Bozo the Clown?
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 03:03 PM
Jul 2019

More like Bronzo the Clown. He looks especially bronze in this photo. He could not be LESS interested listening to these people. When HE is not the center of attention, he loses focus. After all, isn't EVERYTHING about the great anus-looking mouthed Don the Con?

Bayard

(22,073 posts)
9. How did these people even manage to get an appointment with our esteemed leader?
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 04:00 PM
Jul 2019

Especially people of color?

mtngirl47

(989 posts)
10. "What did you do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?"
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 04:04 PM
Jul 2019

HA! He was looking for pointers so he could up his game to get the Nobel!

What an idiot!

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
17. Infuriating! So disrespectful. So stupid. And...
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 08:29 AM
Jul 2019

... not even knowing where Bangladesh is? Even after being told "right next to Burma", he still was clueless, but faking it.

If his "advisor" had said "Myanmar" instead of Burma, then Trump would have still been just as lost. Note that he had no response, other than "thank you", to the man's question asking what can be done to help.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
18. At least he didn't say something like we have real problems w/the Myanmar ese on the Mexican Border.
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 08:35 AM
Jul 2019

Not only is he rude and disrespecting but he is having real lucidity problems and ongoing cognitive decline
too. And what is worse is that everyday we get more and more data points that Russia installed his ass
into the White House.

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