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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5048440" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>From the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/president-donald-trump-first-week.html" target="_blank">earliest days of his administration</a>, it has been obvious to everyone who has come in direct contact with him that Trump knows very, very little about any policy issue or even <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-challenges-governing-presidency-234879" target="_blank">how the federal government operates</a>. Among those most alarmed by Trump’s ignorance and incompetence were those in the <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/21/inside-trumps-first-pentagon-briefing-229865" target="_blank">military</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-president-trump-consumes--or-does-not-consume--top-secret-intelligence/2017/05/29/1caaca3e-39ae-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html" target="_blank">intelligence community</a>. After a National Security Council meeting on January 19, 2018, Defense Secretary James Mattis <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodwards-new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/2018/09/04/b27a389e-ac60-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html" target="_blank">told aides</a> that Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader.”</p><p></p><p>To this day, Trump pays <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/presidents-daily-brief-trump.html" target="_blank">very little attention to his intelligence briefings</a>. He received <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html" target="_blank">repeated warnings</a> about the coronavirus that he completely ignored—at <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html" target="_blank">great cost in terms of lives</a>. Long after the seriousness of the pandemic became too serious for him to ignore and after many briefings on the subject, Trump continued to make ridiculous comments about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html" target="_blank">unproven cures</a>, including some that are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/politics/trump-disinfectant-coronavirus.html" target="_blank">simply nonsensical</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5048440, member: 54375"] From the [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/president-donald-trump-first-week.html']earliest days of his administration[/URL], it has been obvious to everyone who has come in direct contact with him that Trump knows very, very little about any policy issue or even [URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trump-challenges-governing-presidency-234879']how the federal government operates[/URL]. Among those most alarmed by Trump’s ignorance and incompetence were those in the [URL='https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/21/inside-trumps-first-pentagon-briefing-229865']military[/URL] and [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-president-trump-consumes--or-does-not-consume--top-secret-intelligence/2017/05/29/1caaca3e-39ae-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html']intelligence community[/URL]. After a National Security Council meeting on January 19, 2018, Defense Secretary James Mattis [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodwards-new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/2018/09/04/b27a389e-ac60-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html']told aides[/URL] that Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader.” To this day, Trump pays [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/presidents-daily-brief-trump.html']very little attention to his intelligence briefings[/URL]. He received [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html']repeated warnings[/URL] about the coronavirus that he completely ignored—at [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html']great cost in terms of lives[/URL]. Long after the seriousness of the pandemic became too serious for him to ignore and after many briefings on the subject, Trump continued to make ridiculous comments about [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html']unproven cures[/URL], including some that are [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/politics/trump-disinfectant-coronavirus.html']simply nonsensical[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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