'It had to be very simple': Europeans used 'color

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'It had to be very simple': Europeans used 'colorful cue cards' to explain trade to Trump

BRAD REED at Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/simple-europ...ade-trump/

"SNIP.........

European Union officials who flew to Washington, D.C. this week to try to negotiate a trade treaty with President Donald Trump knew that they couldn’t present him with large sets of complicated information, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

Specifically, the Journal’s sources say that EU representatives made use of “colorful cue cards” that they thought would help keep the president’s attention during meetings. Each card contained what WSJ describes as “simplified explainers” that “had at most three figures about a specific topic, such as trade in cars or standards for medical devices.”

One European official speaking anonymously to WSJ reporters says that they knew they’d have to dumb things down compared to typical meetings they had with world leaders given the president’s penchant for getting distracted during meetings and presentations.

“We knew this wasn’t an academic seminar,” the official says. “It had to be very simple.”

Last year, a White House confidant told the Washington Post that Trump only had enough patience to get through a “half page” of information during a meeting, and would often tune out of meetings if they lasted longer than just two minutes.

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Some dyslexics (me included) are bad at learning the non concrete. Which is why Trump pulls down human constructs like trade agreements in favour of something he invents and gets. Sometimes it is good to redo the thinking on things. Most often in the West humans have invented and invested themselves in systems experts understand that should stand, with review over time.

8. The GOP is responsible for unloading this moron on us. We've known from the beginning of his campaign he doesn't know Shit from Shinola.

When he began requesting his PDBs in Pictures everyone in the Intelligence Community worth his/her salt should have quit and walked out. I would not have continued to babysit this ignorant fool for any amount of money.

I love my country too much and if Mike Pompao had any integrity, he would have quit by now. Anyone remaining in that administration who think their careers and reputations will survive this administration, they are deluding themselves.

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