Trump suggested during the interview it isn't necessary for him to receive the presidential briefings daily.
"I'm, like, a smart person," the president-elect said during the interview.
"I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years — but eight years. I don't need that."
You know anybody who constantly has to say that they are a smart person, is typically NOT a smart person.
President Obama, now there is an extremely intelligent man.
And also a man who accepts daily security briefings as a necessary and important part of his job in protecting the American people.
Of course unlike Donald Trump, our current president trusts the information provided by the national security folks, while Trump rejects it since much of it would undoubtedly conflict with information he receives from his more trusted "information" source, Alex Jones.
Trump also states in the interview that Mike Pence IS receiving frequent briefings.
Which I guess is to be expected since clearly HE is the guy who will be running the country while Donald Trump secretly runs his businesses and oversees his TV show.
I wonder how long it will take all of this to finally break through that conservative bubble and start to really bother some of the idiots that voted for this guy?
Hell considering their lack of cognitive thinking skills and allergic reaction to the facts this might not bother them until a year or two into the next world war.
Update: The only thing that would make Trump's response more pathetic is if he had criticized the President for skipping intelligence briefings in the past.
So you know what's coming right?
That of course was based on a bullshit report by a conservative group founded by....wait for it.....Stephen Bannon.Fact--Obama does not read his intelligence briefings nor does he get briefed in person by the CIA or DOD. Too busy I guess!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2014
I swear you cannot even make this stuff up.
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ReplyDeleteSadly, IMO, yes to the political cartoon.
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Did anyone think Pence was not going to run the next 4 years??? Cheney obviously ran the Bush presidency
ReplyDeleteNPM said so himself before the election! Pence in charge of all affairs foreign and domestic while he "Makes America Great Again," whatever the hell THAT means.
DeleteSide note: Those who run around boasting, "I'm, like, this really smart person" hardly ever are. Only dummies trying to convince themselves.
Your daughter's hero Elon Musk is now on board to go to Trump Tower and kiss the ring. Isn't that special?
DeleteWould explain how almost the entire cabinet are homophobes.
DeleteA "smart man" stays smart by seeking information from every resource available.
ReplyDeleteA "stupid man" avoids.
Comrade Trumphski qualifies only as a "stupid smart ass".
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Trump is such a fucking idiot and nothing more than ego driven. He has no clue how stupid he is and comes across as! Deplorable as they come and someone who should never be allowed to take the oath of office for potus! Plus, he should be impeached immediately IF he is actually allowed to take the oath of office!
ReplyDeleteHe's the very WORST that could be allowed to represent America. I suspect he'll not last long - either through death or impeachment! I hope we never hear from the asshole again!
Boy oh boy, do we ever need a President Hillary Clinton!
He managed to keep his tax returns hidden, his medical report was a joke given by an unhinged doctor. Imagine what the gop would have done if Hillary had done these things? No rules seem to apply to the orange prick who is their chosen "leader" The piss poor excuse for a "man" is borderline insane.
Deletethis!
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As of today, Nixon basically resigned over nothing.
DeleteCorrect 7:32. What Nixon did will pale in comparison.
DeleteIn other news, little Indy Arschloch caught a fish today! Yay!
HOOHAH Donnie
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PENSE WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL VICE PRESIDENT EVER!
ReplyDeleteBecause Pense goes to about every security briefing
Will be in charge of Foreign and Domestic policies
Will be in charge of Washington DC when the president goes home to New York every day after 5pm and on weekends
Trump will do rallies, go to stadiums to see his face on the big screen, do press conferences and take credit for Pense's and the cabinets work.
Remember this, Trump wanted Kasich to be the most powerful vice-president in history. Kasich would be in charge of foreign and domestic policies and Trump would be in charge of Making America Great (probably holding Victory rallies)
Before you get so outraged over him you should at least realize his name is spelled Pence, not Pense, which in itself is a contradiction in terms as "pense" is the root for the word "pensive" which means thoughtful, which Pence is anything but.
DeleteWhatever, he's not even going to do the "presidenting" obviously Pence is as he is getting the briefings. Trump is just going to be a puppet like W was with Rove actually acting as president, except this time it will be Pence.
ReplyDelete“The president-elect is missing out on a golden opportunity to learn about the national security threats and challenges facing our nation,” Morell said, “knowledge that would be extremely valuable to have when he takes the oath of office and when he steps into the Situation Room for the first time.”
ReplyDeleteHe's like a smart person. He is clearly telling us that he isn't a smart person, but he is quite similar to one.
ReplyDeleteYes. Exactly. But he's wrong about that, too. He's like a stupid person who is too dim to understand how he could have been smart, but was too lazy to do the work. He's like that. But his dad's money saved him from the normal outcome of being like a stupid person.
DeleteHe is George W. Bush with a much bigger ego. Propped up by Daddy's money and connections. An empty (too big) suit. He is a joke, pulled on this country by Vladimir Putin. He calls him "a useful idiot". What a disgrace to this country he is.
DeleteLike a smart person on drugs.
DeleteLike a smart person who is drunk.
Like a smart person who has been in a terrible accident and has traumatic brain injury.
Like a smart person who has Alzheimer's.
Is he like that kind of smart person?
Funny, how important the briefings were to Repubs when Obama was sitting in on 44% of the briefings. They lost it. And btw, Obama was reading the briefings on his own when not in the meetings. Trump, we know, doesn't read.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/quote-day-trump-blowing-intel-briefings-because-im-smart-person
President Obama read the breifings daily on his own, when not in meetings.
Delete“National security is Donald Trump’s No. 1 priority and I think he’s taking it very seriously,” Nunes said. “Look how many leaders he’s met with, how many phone calls he’s done, positions he’s filled. People who are being critical need to get a life.”
ReplyDeleteDonald, congratulatory phone calls and handshakes does not make a security briefing.
Lardass is still talking about a hacker in bed. Quoted from HuffPo:
ReplyDelete“They have no idea if it’s Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. I mean, they have no idea,” Trump said.
This guy isn't nuts when he says this. He's dirty. He's corrupt.
Man, and he thinks he can talk this way and yet expect protection. He has no sense of duty. He will be protected no matter how much he trashes his protectors. Vile piece of scum would never be able to do the same. Heck, I bet everything I own that if some emergency happened and he were with Barron, Trump would just run away and leave Barron to fend for himself.
Yeahs, he's definitely a coward.
DeleteThe only offspring he cares about is his first lady, Ivanka. He would never spend time alone with Barron or Melania either for that matter. I doubt she would want to spend time with his large orange ass.
DeletePresident Obama IS brifed on security EVERY SINGLE DAY.
DeleteThat sure sounds like a smart person. NOT!
DeleteTrump is a very insane person who's only interest is money,money and more money.
ReplyDeleteI bet if he was paid to get the briefings, he would sure change his mind, toot sweet!
I'm surprised Kellyanne hasn't tried that.
DeleteMaybe a chart where he gets a gold star every time he does something "presidential" and he can trade stars for the opportunity to Tweet. Five stars equals one tweet.
QUESTION:
ReplyDeleteAre we in trouble?
"I'm, like, a smart person," the president-elect said during the interview.
"I don't have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years
PROBLEM:
Everybody thinks Trump is a dumbass for not attending security briefings.
IF:
Trump says he is like a smart person, he went to some type of school. Hope not Trump University.
THEN:
Trump must be telling us he's sending the stupid people (Pense) to the security briefings.
Is there another way of saying
WE'S SCREWED!
Layoff! The man is busy! He has THANK YOU business in Ohio, Michigan, Louisiana and places near you.
ReplyDeleteA team of intelligence analysts has offered to give Trump daily briefings since his election victory but so far he has turned them away, the Post reported. Mike Pence, on the other hand, has made time for the briefings every day since the election.
If Sarah Palin hasn't criticized President-elect Trump for not attending important secret briefings because he's picking his unqualified billionaire and millionaire friends for jobs in his cabinet then why should it bother you?
ReplyDeleteThe stupid man. What a joke, the con is.
ReplyDeleteTrump makes me want to puke! He thinks he's smart? Holy Mary Mother of God! He is so far from it! His ego is earth shattering and he should never be allowed to hold the office of potus. Only the idiots in America voted for him!
ReplyDeleteI so hope he'll be impeached if he actually is allowed to take the oath of office. He just might not make it to the celebration he is putting together for HIMSELF!
Hillary Clinton is the one that should be leading our country as of 1/20/17! She is so much MORE qualified than the asshole that will never represent me.
Trump is nothing more than deplorable and unfit to serve as potus!
Since you brought up Sarah Palin.
ReplyDeleteSarah doesn't see anything wrong with what this new administration is doing in Washington DC and in New York and in Florida besides (1) giving away taxpayers money to Carrier to keep Carrier jobs in Indiana, (2) she hasn't seen the Trump Wall yet and (3) I believe she accused Trump of cronyism.
FUCK SARAH PALIN.
DeleteAnd when Sarah realizes no one cares she will be allright.
DeleteWhen it comes down to it, the president is the decider. The weight of responsibility is on him. To not do the right thing and be as involved as possible removes himself from this and puts more weight on the shoulders of those who are already doing their own jobs.
ReplyDeleteWhat pres doesn't want to hear things directly and not have it given to him by way of yet another secondary type of source? He thinks getting info from Pence is going to be enough, and much of what he will get will already be secondary.
A real pres wants as much info as possible and from the least amount of six degrees of separation as possible. And he wants to hear all the nuances and subtleties and the very words of the agencies and the body language of those providing the info. He has no interest in any of that. The job is just so simple to him.
Well first off, he would not understand the briefings, since he does not know where these countries are unless he has a hotel there with his name on it. Second, he is too busy getting his ugly mug on TV, and running his TV show and other businesses. Thirdly, he does not want to be president, he just wants the title, to impress rich people who can invest in his properties.
DeleteDid the KKK have the We Won Parade in honor of Trump yet? I'm wondering if there were behind the door talk that he can't march in the KKK parade but if he goes to Louisiana will they skip the parade and attend the We Won Rally?
ReplyDeleteThe Heaths will be there in all their glory!
DeletePresident Trump in his White House bedroom: What's that?
ReplyDeleteWhite House bedroom Miss Universe white maid: That's the Red Phone for your 3am phone calls sir.
President Trump: Oh no no no! I specifically made a presidential decision to install the emergency Red Phone in Pense's Naval Observatory bedroom. He's the one that been attending the security briefings while I have been making America Great Again and going on my Thank You rallies.
Internet: Trump has yet to meet with Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. or other top intelligence officials — aside from an unofficial meeting with embattled Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, who is rumored to be a top candidate to replace Clapper. Trump has greeted a parade of other officials auditioning for Cabinet positions, but also met with Indian business partners, television news anchors and figures in the entertainment industry.
ReplyDeleteTrump has no interest in anyone from Obama's administration. He probably doesn't trust them to know anything.
DeleteThat's why he's on the witchhunt for Climate Change believers so he can hunt them down and fire them.
Trump says the security briefings he gets from the Kremlin are superior.
ReplyDeleteFigures
DeleteEverything foreign is superior to Trump than American stuff.
Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm not talking about hoohah.
An exception is made for Ivanka of course. He thinks she is HOT. She has enough teeth to fill two mouths!!
DeleteWe are fucked, with no lube. I feel as helpless as if I were in prison with Big Bubba as a cellmate.
ReplyDelete#nevermypresident!
He doesn’t read the security briefings because they are more than 140 characters and they use university level vocabulary words therefore he doesn’t understand them and is too lazy to use a dictionary.
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O/T Never fear Sarah will keep those bad hackers away, does the moron understand what a hacker is?
How is she going to see them on the Internet? with her wonky eye?
Sarah Palin says she’ll help stop Russian hackers: I’ll ‘keep an eye on them’ from my house!
.... Russia's getting out of hand? So says the defeated. Not to worry… remember I can keep an eye on them from here. https://t.co/jQBCDV5O3W
Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) December 12, 2016.....
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/sarah-palin-says-shell-help-stop-russian-hackers-ill-keep-an-eye-on-them-from-my-house/
Let's hope she does a better job watching the Rissians than she did watching her offspring. So many, many illegitimate babies in the family.
DeleteConsidering Dough boy is shooting blanks makes one wonder who is the sperm donor?
DeleteUmm, Louie Gohmert smart or Sarah Palin smart or Michele Bachmann smart or ...
ReplyDeleteThe article at the link below needs to be read.
ReplyDeleteLast week I read that Stein's recount was stopped b/c of her poor % of votes in MI. If so, why then didn't somebody come out and demand the recount be continued on behalf of Hillary? And where was Hillary? I thought she had agreed that a recount was the right thing. Why is no one fighting for a MI recount?
And where were the people/lawyers who usually watch recounts and voting who do it a lot and know what to do and how to handle the assholes trying to stop the recount? At this article, it sounds like David and Goliath during the MI recount.
Where the hell was everybody????
And what about Florida? What happened to that?
I'm at the point of wanting to say fuck the Dems. I'm sick of them not getting their act together and being wusses.
https://medium.com/@nick_sharp/what-i-saw-at-the-michigan-recount-7c46fdc87243#.s1wgg9lmm
I think stuff has been happening but the media have chosen to misreport something else. With NBC and CNN promoting white supremacy it's hard to get any truth from anyone except LOD and Joy Reid.
DeleteAnd Rachel Maddow.
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Oh geez, now TX Perry might be energy secretary.
ReplyDeleteOops. I meant to paste in this link re TX Perry, a reminder that the third agency he said in a debate that he'd want to get rid of--but he forgot--was Energy:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/rick-perry-forgets-agencies_n_1085249.html
In 2014 Lardass was all over Obama's case and saying that he didn't attend his briefings. Of course Trump was getting his info from Breitbart and it was wrong. Now, Trump doesn't need the briefings:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-once-wrongly-criticized-obama-not-attending-intel-briefings-n694631
I got my Trump rally tickets for West Allis, Wisconsin, so I can avoid using them and thereby make the crowd smaller. You can get yours, too, right here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule/register/west-allis-wi2/
Hey, great idea. Lets start doing this!
DeleteGryphen ...You'll love the replies to Sarah criticizing the Obamas' holiday card.
ReplyDeletehttp://thepoliticalvoice.com/just-in-sarah-palin-makes-a-nasty-comment-about-the-obamas-christmas-card-twitter-gets-revenge-tweets/
No, we couldn't make this stuff up. I wish it was a nightmare I could wake up from but it's not.
ReplyDeleteThis giant anus and his man fart are beyond assholes.
ReplyDeleteFox no news suck. look at the ignorance that they portray. Look at the damage. Watch all the rats jump ship when caught doing their dirty nasty deeds.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump doesn't need any more intelligence because he's already super intelligent.
ReplyDeleteThe fat orange fuck thought the intelligence briefing was supposed to make him smarter. That's the only conclusion. He definitely has dementia.
And the gullible ask? Why would pussia and all want to interfere in little ol gov and uncle sam election? Well? hit it $$$money money money money$$$money money money$$$its show time. Dick taters loves Hollywood Movies. Lousy bad actors and the coo coo
ReplyDeleteI'm quite sure they *are* telling him the same thing every day.
ReplyDeleteStuff like "This is important Mr. Trump", "You need to pay attention to this, Mr. Trump", "You cannot do XXX, Mr. Trump."
Stuff like no, you cannot use our nuclear weapons.
And all the warnings about business conflicts and that he cannot accept and keep gifts, etc.
I'm sure they are having to tell him the same thing over and over because he is a FUCKING MORON who is totally clueless and a sociopathic narcissist who thinks he knows everything and doesn't need any instruction, information or help.
Yeah, like he handled the Chinese so diplomatically when he fucked that up.
(Please, if there is a God, give him a massive coronary before Dec. 19)
Like waking up in bed with a bunch of rapist and ask? did I get F**ked?
ReplyDeleteAre we still doing the thank you tour )o(.
ReplyDeleteMy reaction to anything that Trump says or tweets is always the same - a desire to bang my head against the nearest wall. The thought of having this man as president for the next four years is simply unfathomable because he behaves like a spoiled four-year old child. So Trump doesn't need briefings because he's "smart." A smart person, like President Obama, welcomes the information that he can gather from others and uses that information when drawing his own conclusions. That is why we've been in such capable hands for the last eight years! Fox News notwithstanding.
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I am so sick of this retard trump conman. All over US we have sports, organizations, religions, ... with rules. Most allow for some individualism. The con is so out there and I do not care for his kids in on everything or his finger in all his conflict of interests. Just get rid of him. I will not stand for him if I hsve to defend him in another country. The other country can do whatever they want to him. I will sit and watch never lifting a finger to shield or defend him. He is a loser period!
ReplyDeleteYou know how children who are out of control are said to be pushing the boundaries because they subconsciously crave an authority figure to lower the boom. Testing the limits to see if anyone will stop them. I think Trump may be doing this, saying "how much nonsense will the public put up with from me?" Will he have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, as he joked(?), before he's stopped?
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