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struggle4progress

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Wed Jul 5, 2017, 03:30 PM Jul 2017

Prepping for Meeting With Tweet-Length Briefings

By Adam K. Raymond
July 5, 2017
1:37 pm

On Friday in Hamburg, Germany, President Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin will sit down for an official bilateral meeting that will be highly scrutinized by citizens and leaders from around the world. Last week .. it was reportedly going to occur on the sidelines of this week’s G20 Summit. But those plans have changed, in part .. because the White House feared Trump would get steamrolled ...

“Mr. Trump’s aides are seeking structure and predictability. They hope that a formal meeting, with aides present and an agenda, will leave less room for improvisation,” the Times reports ... Putin once brought a black Lab to a meeting with Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, who’s afraid of dogs.

... to make sure Trump is prepared, his aides have added a personalized touch to the thick binder of information meant to ready him for the meeting. Aides “have written a list of tweet-length sentences that summarize the main points Trump could bring up with Putin” ...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/trump-prepping-for-putin-with-tweet-length-briefings.html

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Prepping for Meeting With Tweet-Length Briefings (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2017 OP
Oh Dear God. . tweet length briefing? annabanana Jul 2017 #1
Flash cards for the idiot in chief. NightWatcher Jul 2017 #2
Why aren't people up in arms about this complete lack of competence? LonePirate Jul 2017 #3

LonePirate

(13,419 posts)
3. Why aren't people up in arms about this complete lack of competence?
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 03:40 PM
Jul 2017

The man is an idiot and mentally incapable of fulfilling his responsibilities and duties as president.

The media in this country need to be showing his gross incompetence at every moment.

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