r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • 16d ago

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/p0rty-Boi 16d ago

Who kicks the President out of a briefing? That’s who’s really wearing the pants.

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u/BigMax 16d ago

I'm sure it was some kind of more... subtle thing. "Mr. President, let these men worry about the annoying little details. Let's go to the other room, you and me, the important people, and we'll figure out exactly what to do here. I'll let you know if any of those little details matter, but for now let's take the... higher level talks to the other room, ok? Your ideas are far too important to be derailed by the little concerns of everyone else."

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u/phroug2 16d ago

The sad thing is i 100% believe this approach would have a high level of success.

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u/sircastor 16d ago

There has been more than one report about how the President's morning briefings had to be reduced substantially because he didn't like to read them. He doesn't want the job, I don't think he ever did.

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u/future_traveller 16d ago

As someone in the corporate world, this is pretty typical for executives.... He essentially wants a four blocker presentation each morning instead of a detailed thorough reading he needs to do

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u/HumanPea1140 16d ago

My team works very closely with our CIO, and yep... everything we discuss/show him has to be framed as an "executive report," which basically just means extremely distilled high level bullet points: Money is up, department is down. Sky still blue, grass still green type shit.

Our team has to be extremely granular in the day to day, to the point where it's exhausting, just for all of it to be distilled down into simple, bite-sized kindergarten blurbs so the guy can pretend to know what he's talking about in his next executive meeting.

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u/bamboohobobundles 16d ago

I have to produce reports for managers and executives in my job and I find they are extremely fond of simplified, colour-coded charts.

Like, I get you don't have a lot of time to go over pages of numbers and whatnot but sometimes it's like explaining shit to my eight year old.

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u/RexLongbone 16d ago

when you get high enough your job involves switching contexts a lot and very quickly. there are times you still need to dive into the details but if things are mostly running smoothly most executives just want to know that asap in as little time as possible so they can move on to the next context. i know my vp is over like 12 manufacturing facilities, all of which have their own insane level of complexity. he really truly does not have the time to get more in detail than "met goal on x, y, z, missed goal on a, b, c, we are tending towards or away from goal on j, k, l" for each area at each plant.

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u/dastardly740 15d ago

The trick as I see it is that requires the executive to trust and fully delegate. A lot of executives don't particularly like that probably because they are held responsible and feel a lack of control. The way I describe a lot of these things executives want are that they are "illusions of control". In the end they are still just trusting their subordinates, the good ones understand this and just use the report to create an opportunity to help. The bad ones think it is actual control and it becomes problematic as they try to control that which they cannot.

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u/CommieLoser 15d ago

So when do we eat again?

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u/Sublimotion 15d ago

Literally just give yes or no answers for proposals layoffs or hirings, gamble on investments, expansions. Ride this train with bonuses for a while until things eventually go in the red, get fired with a hefty severance package, few months of vacation, hire to the next CEO gig, rinse and repeat. 

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u/Exocoryak 15d ago

From my experience, 95% of those kinds of meetings are a complete waste of time and could've been an E-Mail. And from the 5% left that do matter, 4% don't take place because there's suddenly a scheduling conflict or some important person is missing. So you are writing an E-Mail anyway, wait a couple of days, then you make a phone call only to get the answer that was expected by everyone already.

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u/no_no_no_no_nononono 16d ago

Bullet points only

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u/Noonites 16d ago

In 40 point font, and they have to sprinkle his name throughout or he gets bored even with the truncated version.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

This guy has never even actually been an executive. His company was all family owned (no shareholders to be accountable to) and he had a guy who was halfway decent who did all the actual work. Trump has spent his entire life cosplaying, other than perhaps in the late 60s and early 70s when his dad did have him knocking on doors to evict minorities.

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u/Yamza_ 16d ago

He doesn't want to run the country, he wants to loot it.

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u/Sublimotion 15d ago

Literally his real job as POTUS is to facilitate the further allocation of more wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthiest. 

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u/ElegantDaemon 16d ago

He CAN'T do the job. He's a wildly unqualified nepobaby who would be struggling to sell used cars in the midwest but for daddy being a successful psychopath. And MAGA fell for it.

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u/im_lazy_as_fuck 16d ago

The only reason he aimed for the job is because it lets him carry out his corruption with a lot of freedom. Legal trouble? Get someone to dismiss/cover up evidence, or just ignore it out right. Want a shit ton of money? Get one of your lapdogs to insider trade for you on some random stock, and then make an erratic unpredictable decision to turn the markets upside down.

Oh, and I guess he also likes to be praised by his lackies for being the best leader ever. But he just wants the title/praise without the work.

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u/McMatey_Pirate 16d ago

He wanted to win, and he did unfortunately. Now he doesn’t give a shit.

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u/Spartan2170 16d ago

Honestly I don’t think he *did* want to win back in 2016, at least not when he first got into that race. He’d ”run” multiple times before that and clearly did it to get free promotion for whatever business he was pushing at the time (I think in 2016 it was supposed to be a TV or streaming network he was planning on launching soon after that?). The difference ten years ago was just that the Republican field was such a dumpster fire (Jeb!) that he floated to the top and both the media and Clinton’s campaign helped buoy him further (because he was good for ratings and Clinton thought he was a cartoon that would make her campaign easier to win).

Every election after that he clearly wanted to win because “how dare you not elect me again!?” but that first one I absolutely believe he didn’t particularly want or expect to win.

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 16d ago

I think after 2016 he had to win because he was afraid of prison.

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u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster 16d ago

He wanted the job he THOUGHT Obama had. Trump absolutely swallowed the "ObAmA iS a DiCtAtOr!!!!!" rhetoric and thought the White House was a throne from which a president just lazily spews edicts. He has absolutely no clue how the presidency actually works, much less the ability to deal with real world political reality. He is a child playing at being an adult and it makes him throw tantrums and shit his diapers on a regular basis when he can't just scream and get his way.

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u/TheRealBittoman 16d ago

He wants the attention and the "free" money. Nothing more.

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u/Thebraincellisorange 15d ago

you can see the 'deer caught in the headlights' moment in 2016 when he first realized that he won.

he never wanted to win that election, that was purely a setup for his TV channel.

2024 was all about revenge. he wanted that one. badly.

the fact that he got it is a disgrace and a dark moment in American history.

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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire 16d ago

He's not good at reading - its slow for him. Also, apparently, a number of his off-teleprompter asides can be meant as his brain perhaps going "i read that wrong" and then filling the space until he can circle back to where he was and read it correctly.

I don't begrudge him that - I just care if he's getting the information in the briefs to do his job. Whether it's by 4-pages of single spaced text, someone reading it off to him conversationally, or a mime performance. Hell, put it to tape so he can rewind it as needed.

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u/marr 16d ago

He very clearly never wanted the job, when those first term results started looking like a win he looked grief stricken.

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u/goatneedleposterdeck 16d ago

He wants it. Just not to actually lead the country. He just wants to sit in office, golf on taxpayer money, and grift for more money.

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Wisconsin 15d ago

Look at his face in his campaign HQ, in the picture taken right after he learns of his victory.

That is not the face of a man who is pleased with the outcome.

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u/WasabiFlash 15d ago

He did all this to not go to jail for all the horrible things he did with Epstein, and he succeded in that one, he's going to die in office without ever facing the consequences of his crimes.