rumblings of chief of staff, hire posts within the administration, it is a little surprising that he is leaving on such bad terms amid such frustration with the president. but the idea that gary would be leaving right now is not entirely shocking. there was always a sense that he was not necessarily long for this world. i want to read you a portion of mr. wolf s book, fire and fury. this was notable when the book came out, i suppose it remains notable today, it is said to be a quote from an e-mail from gary cone that circulated around the white house. and it says, it s worse than you can imagine, an idiot surrounded by clowns, trump won t read anything, not one page memos, not the briefing policy papers, nothing. he gets up, halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. trump is less a person than a collection of horrible traits, no one will survive the first year but his family. i am in a constant state of shock and horror.
leaving right now is not entirely shocking. there was always a sense that he was not necessarily long for this world. i want to read you a portion of mr. wolf s book, fire and fury. this was notable when the book came out, i suppose it remains notable today, it is said to be a quote from an e-mail from gary cone that circulated around the white house. and it says, it s worse than you can imagine, an idiot surrounded by clowns, trump won t read anything, not one page memos, not the briefing policy papers, nothing. he gets up, halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. trump is less a person than a collection of horrible traits, no one will survive the first year but his family. i am in a constant state of shock and horror. robert, what kind of west wing does mr. cohn leave behind? i can t speak to the attribution of those words,
sorry for that distraction. there s a reuters article out and i m hoping you saw it. conversation with some officials would brief trump and others who are aware of how he absorbs information portray a president with a short attention span. he likes single page memos and visual aids like maps, graphs and photos. national security figures have strategically included his name in as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he is mentioned. the same thing i flared a number of his aides. he won t read it unless his name is mentioned. there are so many exam wills here of trump s own staffer discussing anymore ways that are undercutting him. they compare him to sometimes like child. this is the president of the united states talking about it like he is a child? and these his staffers. this is coming from inside the white house. the reuters at least looked line a national security council of staffers discussing the ways to manipulate or convince the