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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Nov 18, 2018, 07:01 PM Nov 2018

Trump Reveals How He Makes Decisions to Chris Wallace: 'I Don't Think About Them'


by Aidan McLaughlin | Nov 18th, 2018, 1:42 pm

President Donald Trump offered a peak into his decision making process in his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, and there’s really not much to it.

“How, when you’re sitting at the desk, how do you make decisions?” Wallace asked the president in the Oval Office. “I mean, do you agonize over them, do you second guess yourself?”

“I don’t think about them,” Trump replied. “I don’t think about, you know, how I make them. I make what I consider the right decision, I have great people working at the White House, they don’t get enough credit. I have some tremendously talented people and I will talk to them and sometimes I’ll have them go at each other, I do like that, you know let them go at each other. And they do. They’ve very competitive people and at the end I make a decision and it’s certainly – on the economy, a lot of things we’ve been – we’ve made a lot of good decisions and I want to keep it that way.”

When Wallace asked Trump for the toughest decision he has made in office, the president brought up North Korea. “I think we had real decision as to which way to go on North Korea and certainly at least so far I’m very happy with the way we went,” Trump said.

“Even though there was talk that they putting up new sites?” Wallace asked.

“Maybe they are, maybe they’re not, I don’t believe that, I don’t,” Trump said. “And you know could which is – if that’s the way it goes, that’s the way it goes. You know, I go with the way we have to go but so far it’s been good, we have a very good relationship.”

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Trump Reveals How He Makes Decisions to Chris Wallace: 'I Don't Think About Them' (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
So, he watches his staff fight and argue, and then he tosses a coin? Siwsan Nov 2018 #1
So he admits his staff is there for his amusement Raven123 Nov 2018 #2
That's pretty obvious. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2018 #3
He could have stopped with "I don't think" Docreed2003 Nov 2018 #4
where is the proofreader at Mediaite?? Grasswire2 Nov 2018 #5
Well, that explains a little. Totally Tunsie Nov 2018 #6
I'm so very shocked at the gambling happening in this casino. Volaris Nov 2018 #7
Young children are more articulate than he is. Garrett78 Nov 2018 #8

Siwsan

(26,260 posts)
1. So, he watches his staff fight and argue, and then he tosses a coin?
Sun Nov 18, 2018, 07:05 PM
Nov 2018

I suspect the inside of his head contains little blind, dyslexic imps frantically pounding on teletypes, and the spewing, nonsensical words exit through his mouth.

Raven123

(4,828 posts)
2. So he admits his staff is there for his amusement
Sun Nov 18, 2018, 07:17 PM
Nov 2018

The real question is why any self-respecting being would agree to such a role

Volaris

(10,270 posts)
7. I'm so very shocked at the gambling happening in this casino.
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 02:51 AM
Nov 2018

I particularly like how his approach to foreign policy, and NK specifically is,

'if that's the way it goes, that's the way it goes'

...

Is he running an ice cream stand at the county fair, and his vendor's truck broke down?
NO He's running the goddamn US STATE DEPARTMENT, backed by the most overly mighty military in the history of homo-sapiens, funded by arguably one of the most diverse and stable economies in the history of FUCKING ECONOMIES, and THATS where he comes down???!!!

The Trump Doctrine, ladies and gentlemen:
'The other guy said it's fine, so just fuck it I guess'

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
8. Young children are more articulate than he is.
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 04:08 AM
Nov 2018

Reading transcripts of his statements never ceases to amaze.

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