Trump complains 'my generals don't understand business'

[left-of-center2012]

President Trump is concerned that his generals and intelligence agencies don't consider business and economics in their intelligence analyses, The New York Times reported Sunday.

“My generals don’t understand business,” Trump reportedly complained after national security briefings, a former administration official told the Times. Trump has reportedly requested that trade and economics be the focus of presentations from security officials (over world security issues).

“If Trump tailors it to his needs, that is fine and his prerogative,” Douglas Wise, a career CIA official and a former top deputy at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said.

“However, if he suppresses intelligence through that tailoring, that is not helpful. He is no longer making informed decisions because he is making decisions based on information he could have had but didn’t have.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432397-trump-complains-my-generals-dont-understand-business-report

[C_U_L8R]

1. Neither does Trump

As his many failed businesses prove.

[Iliyah]

2. You don't know business either.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. HE doesn't understand business.

A guy who had four bankruptcies and lost money on a casino doesn't understand business. He's been a complete fake and a fraud from the beginning.

[RKP5637]

4. Trump, neither understands business nor the presidency!!! n/t

[jmowreader]

8. That's not all he lost money on

He also went broke in the meat business and in the booze business. If you have even the slightest inkling of how to run a business, the booze business is a license to print money.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. it takes a special kind of stupid

How in hell does someone lose money owing a casino and selling alcohol? It takes a special kind of stupid to bankrupt a casino. The very reason for so much oversight of gambling is because it's so easy for the 'house' to take everything.

[Autumn]

5. Says a guy who doesn't understand business and would be nowhere had his Dad not

left him millions and the contacts to get people to invest his money.

[SummerSnow]

6. " my generals", what an odd statment. He thinks he owns them.

my shoes, my hat, my book, my generals

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. He thinks everybody who works for the government are his own employees.

[malaise]

12. Had the same thought

He's sick for power - he thinks he's the 'holey moran emperor'

[Achilleaze]

7. Did Putin order KGOP Comrade Dirty Donny* to piss on our US Generals?

Let's see, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has pissed on America's veterans, our POWs, our Gold Star Families, our Admirals, and our US Intelligence Agencies. Now the draft-dodging republican is pissing on our generals.

Who's next? I guess the republicans are waiting for another directive from the freaking kremlin.

[RockRaven]

11. And the generals complain "My POTUS doesn't understand ANYTHING"

Least of all the Constitution or the law.

[Blue Owl]

13. Thanks for that, Mr. Bankrupt

[MiniMe]

14. Our idiot pResident doesn't understand that generals and intelligence agencies shouldn't consider

economics and trade as part of their intelligence analysis