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US intelligence officials are trying to prepare President Trump for his high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday by feeding him information the only way they know how: in bite-size 140-character pieces.
It’s a well-reported fact that Trump doesn’t read his daily briefings and prefers “killer graphics” like pictures, videos, and charts, or in-person briefings. Trump aides have come up with some creative ways to keep the president focused — such as mentioning his name as frequently as possible in memos — but this latest strategy might be their most desperate one yet.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, Trump aides have prepared “a list of tweet-length sentences that summarize the main points Trump could bring up with Putin” in the hopes that the president absorbs even a little of what he needs to know before sitting down with the canny, and sure to be well-prepared, Russian leader.
So we are sending a mental midget into a meeting with a former Soviet spy who was the master mind behind the hacking of our last election.
Perhaps we ought to just douse Trump in steak sauce as well.
What's more apparently Trump is planning to wing it.
Last week, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said the Trump administration doesn’t have a clear plan for the meeting with Putin.
“We have no specific agenda,” he said. “It’s whatever the president wants to talk about.”
On the other hand there is no question that Putin will be quite well prepared for this meeting with a list of "suggestions" that Trump can mull over to help build a friendship between Russia and the United States.
And trust that none of those "suggestions" will favor America in any way.
Former spies are convinced that Putin will have little trouble manipulating Trump due to his massive and delicate ego.
The Kremlin has already taken advantage of Trump's refusal to confirm that it was Russia that hacked our last election.
I imagine that Putin is salivating at the prospect of making America's commander-in-chief his bitch for the first time in Russian history.
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