Current Events > Trump wanted fewer words, more pictures in his briefings

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Antifar
04/07/17 9:52:16 PM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/horrible-pictures-of-suffering-moved-trump-to-action-on-syria/2017/04/07/9aa9fcc8-1bce-11e7-8003-f55b4c1cfae2_story.html?utm_term=.9b9d029aa137

When President Trump began receiving his intelligence briefings in January, his team made a request: The president, they said, was a visual and auditory learner. Would the briefers please cut down on the number of words in the daily briefing book and instead use more graphics and pictures?

Similarly, after Trump entered office, his staff took President Barack Obama’s Syria contingency plans and broke the intelligence down into more-digestible bites, complete with photos, according to current and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the request.

This week, it was the images — gruesome photos of a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians — that moved Trump, pushing the president, who ran on an “America first” platform of nonintervention, to authorize the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syrian targets Thursday night.

Senior administration officials and members of Congress who spoke with Trump said the president was especially struck by two images: young, listless children being splashed with water in a frantic attempt to cleanse them of the nerve agent; and an anguished father holding his twin babies, swathed in soft white fabric, poisoned to death.

As the carnage unfolded on cable news, which the president watches throughout the day and deep into the night, Trump turned to his senior staff, talking about how “horrible” and “awful” the footage out of Syria was, said one top adviser.

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glitteringfairy
04/07/17 9:53:31 PM
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I'd rather look at pictures and shit too yo
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LotrMorgoth
04/07/17 9:53:49 PM
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so he is aware of how he best learns and is asking to receive briefings that reflect this

i'm not a trump supporter but I don't see how this is a bad thing
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Trigg3rH4ppy
04/07/17 9:54:52 PM
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So just tweet sad pictures of refugees to Trump to change his stance on the Muslim ban.
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HydraSlayer82
04/07/17 10:06:27 PM
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For some reason I picture Trump with crayons and coloring books asking for nicer pictures while getting briefed now.
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Unsugarized_Foo
04/07/17 10:08:07 PM
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A picture is worth a thousand words
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Guardian-Sloth
04/07/17 10:09:07 PM
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"Hundreds of people were suffocated by nerve gas" doesn't really do what happened there justice until you see it being done.
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Vyrulisse
04/07/17 10:10:23 PM
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Not seeing the issue here. Of course TC is probably just trying to call Trump an idiot or something and failing since the article doesn't back up the joke.
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TheVipaGTS
04/07/17 10:10:43 PM
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Guardian-Sloth posted...
"Hundreds of people were suffocated by nerve gas" doesn't really do what happened there justice until you see it being done.

This was in January and has nothing to do with that.
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Kineth
04/07/17 10:10:54 PM
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glitteringfairy posted...
I'd rather look at pictures and shit too yo


Yeah, y'all are both simple minded.
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Wutobliteration
04/07/17 10:11:41 PM
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LotrMorgoth posted...
so he is aware of how he best learns and is asking to receive briefings that reflect this

i'm not a trump supporter but I don't see how this is a bad thing


no, it just shows his weakness as what should be the most important and capable person in office.

If you're getting to decisions based on emotions instead of logic and being moved by a bunch of sad photos instead of analyzing the situation first and repercussions involved, there's nothing more to say. You don't deserve to be a leader.
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DevsBro
04/07/17 10:11:48 PM
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so he is aware of how he best learns and is asking to receive briefings that reflect this

i'm not a trump supporter but I don't see how this is a bad thing

I think Trump has actually surpassed W in terms of having the most nonissues being made into news stories.

Remember when W fell off a bicycle and the Left decided he was too stupid to be president? Or how about when he choked on a pretzel? At least those were things that could have turned out poorly. This is just... they didn't have anything better to insult him on.
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