[brightball]

While I'm not a Trump fan and don't disagree with a ton of what you say here, people need to stop with this intelligence briefings stuff.

He said he doesn't need to dedicate time to have people tell him the exact same thing everyday, but to let him know when things change. If anything, that's an efficiency gain that a site full of programmers and avid "meetings are the devil" folks should appreciate. Every time that gets cited right now it roughly translates to "person who only reads headlines."

[sigmar]

If Trump was too busy for briefings, it wouldn't be a big deal. But the "I don't want to hear the same thing every day" is likely very telling of how little he cares about details. Details are important and U.S. national security is at risk if the President doesn't want to know the nuances of current events.

[ddw]

Especially since he has time to meet with Kanye West

[KirinDave]

> He said he doesn't need to dedicate time to have people tell him the exact same thing everyday, but to let him know when things change.

I imagine it is somewhat frustrating to hear,

Analyst A: "We have more developments in how the Russian intelligence operation helped in securing your election, sir."

Trump: "I don't believe that happened, next subject!"

Analyst B: "Sir we have more corroboration that the Russians were involved in the election as bad actors."

Trump: "You're fired!"

[audleman]

> He said he doesn't need to dedicate time to have people tell him the exact same thing everyday

I don't believe that every president before Trump simply put up with redundant meetings. This is the busiest job in the world, presidents are intelligent people, somebody would have put an end to daily security briefings if they weren't useful before now.

[mtberatwork]

Things change daily and he's the incoming president. He absolutely needs to dedicate the time. It's not like these are useless staff meetings to plan an upcoming holiday party.

[tuwtuwtuw]

I agree, Twitter is more important right now.

[micheljones]

The guy puts out a tweet daily while dropping a turd in the morning. Are you really trying to drum this up as something special and resource-hogging?

[ulfw]

One a day in the bathroom? uhuh... http://graphics.wsj.com/clinton-trump-twitter/

ONE DAY RECORD: 87 tweets OCT. 18, 2016

AVG. TWEETS PER DAY: 11

[KirinDave]

If being the PEOTUS is half as hard as having a new baby, I can speak from experience: time to poop is at a premium.

If only Trump worked harder, I guess.