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Just Reported by WH Reporter: Trump had NO NATIONAL SECURITY BRIEFINGS (Original Post) berni_mccoy Jun 2018 OP
Why would he? malaise Jun 2018 #1
Be Best, DAMMIT! ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #4
Emperor Don the Con malaise Jun 2018 #6
"Holy Moran Empire" ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #12
I came up with Holy Moron Empire last week after seeing a cartoon malaise Jun 2018 #17
I added a little something and made a meme ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #23
Oh that's fabulous malaise Jun 2018 #24
Be Best...can't believe that whole damn family got foisted on us... brush Jun 2018 #30
He's a blank canvas. C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #2
WTF indeed, elleng Jun 2018 #3
Big dumbass. lpbk2713 Jun 2018 #5
Comrade Casino* (R) already has his orders from the Kremlin Achilleaze Jun 2018 #7
Feckless bunt NT jayschool2013 Jun 2018 #8
So the U.S. will end up propping up one the cruelist, most rogue HopeAgain Jun 2018 #9
Probably worried PoorMonger Jun 2018 #10
i've seriously been wondering... Takket Jun 2018 #11
Ding, Ding, Ding exboyfil Jun 2018 #16
Yes. Trump has ZERO interest in any of this -- it is all a Putin plan. anneboleyn Jun 2018 #22
Yep, extrapolate that for every issue- he's holding out for the highest bid instead of enacting bettyellen Jun 2018 #25
Summit has most likely been fully scripted. Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #28
No US security briefing Sanity Claws Jun 2018 #13
Putin does it for him uponit7771 Jun 2018 #14
He's not gonna do anything. Corgigal Jun 2018 #15
Someone on CNN just said he is a genius. Click. Glimmer of Hope Jun 2018 #18
It's just a photo op KelleyKramer Jun 2018 #19
Regardless, Trump will claim he "won" DeminPennswoods Jun 2018 #20
I wonder if the career Nat Sec professionals weren't actually rather fine with that RockRaven Jun 2018 #21
We desperately need a better educated society.... Civic Justice Jun 2018 #26
he's winging it....'that's what I do' spanone Jun 2018 #27
my 22 year old bdamomma Jun 2018 #29
I mean is anyone surprised weissmam Jun 2018 #31

malaise

(269,375 posts)
1. Why would he?
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:39 PM
Jun 2018

He knows more than everyone else on the planet. He knows more than the intelligence agencies.

Lock up this fucking lunatic please.

malaise

(269,375 posts)
6. Emperor Don the Con
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:45 PM
Jun 2018

Nothing that came before matters - no systems, no institutions, no knowledge - not one fucking thing - he's the one DON.
Only he can fix it - The fucking dunce thinks he's omnipotent - leader of the Holy Moran Empire.

malaise

(269,375 posts)
17. I came up with Holy Moron Empire last week after seeing a cartoon
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:00 PM
Jun 2018

but other DUers suggested moran to make it get a brains moran ReTHUG perfect.

brush

(53,981 posts)
30. Be Best...can't believe that whole damn family got foisted on us...
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:51 PM
Jun 2018

and the repugs are just going along with these impostors.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
7. Comrade Casino* (R) already has his orders from the Kremlin
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:46 PM
Jun 2018

US security is irrelevant to him.


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
9. So the U.S. will end up propping up one the cruelist, most rogue
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jun 2018

authoritarisn regimes in the World, while we engage in a trade war with Canada who poses "a national security threat".

PoorMonger

(844 posts)
10. Probably worried
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jun 2018

That any extra words thrown in his general direction will push out whatever orders he got from Vlad this morning. Very limited head space — that I can tell you.

Takket

(21,730 posts)
11. i've seriously been wondering...
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:53 PM
Jun 2018

if his apathy to preparation is because he already knows the outcome. it would not surprise me if kim and putin have already cut a deal with drumpf. Kim gets to stay in power with guarentee of russian/us protection and behind the scenes aid from russia, drumpf gets a big win for his ego on the world stage, and putin gets to keep running the US from Moscow.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
25. Yep, extrapolate that for every issue- he's holding out for the highest bid instead of enacting
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:15 PM
Jun 2018

any policy, it’s always why he’s been erratic too- he thinks he is playing hard to get while holding out for a better deal.

Freethinker65

(10,121 posts)
28. Summit has most likely been fully scripted.
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:31 PM
Jun 2018

Question is, will the dictators stick to the script as planned?

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
15. He's not gonna do anything.
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 07:55 PM
Jun 2018

Call it a success, pictures taken.

Everything continues. Unless Trump starts talking shade again, then another wasteful taxpayer reality show.

KelleyKramer

(9,022 posts)
19. It's just a photo op
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:01 PM
Jun 2018

Briefings wouldn't do any good anyway. He wouldn't pay attention and even if he did, he wouldn't understand anything

RockRaven

(15,108 posts)
21. I wonder if the career Nat Sec professionals weren't actually rather fine with that
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:03 PM
Jun 2018

We all know it was a BS "summit" anyway. We know Trump can't keep a secret to save his life, and he blurts out things which ought to remain unsaid all the time. We know that once a hostile party knows what you know they can work to figure out how you know it, and block off those sources/methods. It was probably better that he wasn't briefed ahead of time to prevent Kim from finding out what we know and how we know it.

 

Civic Justice

(870 posts)
26. We desperately need a better educated society....
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:27 PM
Jun 2018

This is the result of what we get when for the past 40 yrs, we omitted to give emphasis to CIVICS EDUCATIONS, and after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the activities engaged since then, have served to erode education, and destroy unions and have exported industry, and it all sums up to ensure American's are less educated, and more unaware of our governance system, and not taught to follow the truths of how politic's have been tainted by every Right Wing Congress since that time, and in 1969, when the Right Wing Faction MOVED OVER from the Southern Democrats and BECAME Republican, they have every since been whittling away at trying to roll back Civil Rights Act of 1964.

First by "Attacking Education" !!! Under-funding it, Reagan cut funding for community colleges and then State Universities, and low funding diminished Civic's Education in Schools. This process has made American less informed and poorly educated on these matters.
When unions were busted, and then Jobs left, it put people in "desperation mode to survive" and they had less time to be concerned about CIVICS and over the past decades... it has become even worst.. Selective Amnesia set in... and now we have a society, that is led by "DRAMA ANTIC'S by Right Wing Political Agenda, that Dominates and Dictates what Public Narrative is, and the General Population does not have enough knowledge of historical information, therefore "we" as a public are at a disadvantage, and Republican seize upon it.

We can't re-educated society quick enough, and people still follow Republican Narrative Dominance that drives the media and the conversations of people, with no dominant counter narrative, and no concern to look back and truly learn so they can develop and promote narratives.

Until the Devastation devastates white society, this cycle will continue. White society has to at some point evidently be weakened and brought down by their own lack of standing up, and becoming more informed and realize, if they can't and don't figure a way to build a bond between poor whites people, women in general and minorities, then the Republican Machine will continue to devastate America.

IF people knew the truth or at least faced it... they'd know in the old Confederate system and Across America... the system was built upon '' blacks as slaves, and then segregated in to forms of indenture, while the white woman was and is in many places still considered as a white man's possession, and poor whites were used as pawns to feed racial division, while at the same time, standing against equality for women......
These things have been used by the wealth to devastate the masses for 100's of years... and if the white people of today, do not wake up and realize it, and build the bonds they need to build with Multicultural society,and across Gender lines, then the Republican will keep winning, and they will keep making life hell for the masses.


It was white people who backed up, and allowed Republican to Take Congress during Obama's presidency. Minorities have no changed their stand nor their tune... and they did not vote republican.. but many white men and white women did, because they got caught up in Republican Drama, expecting Obama to be a Magician, when he was a man, who got this economy off its knees, and promoted health care for all people, and many other things, including bills for equal pay for women... Still, white people, expected too much, and turned their vote to Republican and GAVE the Congress to Republican.

That's a Trump White People Need To Come To Terms With In Themselves. It's time for white people to talk to white people and be straight up and talk in direct terms to other white people about what they are doing to America.
Minorities are still voting Democrat, and they have not changed !!!! The problem is White People, expected a magical miracle, and used SELECTIVE AMNESIA, and forgot the challenge Obama faced, and the work he did to fix it, but they expected some magical "enrichment program to fall upon them", rather than realize we had to 'work as a unified people to build upon the work Obama did to restore the economy and improve diplomacy, and contain the banks and wall street. But.. white people forget too quick !!!! and expect too much.. and then fade away when the instant expectations does not materialize> How they could fall for the Republican Drama and switch up their vote and Vote for the same Republican That Crashed the Economy.... Now, Republican see them as gullible and easy picking, and the Result is now Trump functions like a Dictator, and he got there by the votes of White People.

It's time white people take responsibility for what they have done. Trump did not get many at all minority votes, he got white people votes... and white people are the blame for us having Trump!!!

That's the HARD COLD REALITY that we are facing... and its up to white people to figure out how to join with multicultural people and promote the Democratic Party and support the General Population of ALL AMERICANS. when they get read to do that, ONLY then will we move America forward and protect the government systems it took 100's of years to build. When they come to realize they are no more a person than a minority ethnicity, then they will learn and embrace what is Democratic Party Ideals as a Ethnicity of People, and they will stand up and support equality, and stop looking for white privilege, because when they seek white privilege, all they do is embolden the wealthy and the wealthy control the right wing, and the Republican use that against them, because the white elites of economics, take that white privilege and decimate the poor whites and minorities alike.

White people are too comfortable and too use to thinking 'everything going to be fine" and every decade that we have Republican in Office, the general population of poor whites become more poor, more desperate and more beat down with the rest of multicultural people... and the fact is very simple... WE ALL RISE TOGETHER, or the cycle continues.

Take your pick .... Trump functions like a Dictator because he feels he has White People's Blessing" !!!!

bdamomma

(63,978 posts)
29. my 22 year old
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 08:35 PM
Jun 2018

daughter mentioned it will be hard for the NK translator to translate trump's idiotic questions and answers to Kim.

She has a point.

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