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By You’re going to love President I Don’t Need That.
WALLACE: I just want to ask you about your skepticism about the intelligence community. You are getting the presidential daily brief —
TRUMP: Yes.
WALLACE: — only once a week.
TRUMP: Well, I get it when I need it.
WALLACE: But is there some skepticism?
TRUMP: First of all, these are very good people that are giving me the briefings. If something should change from this point, immediately call me. I’m available on one minute’s notice. I don’t have to be told — you know, I’m like a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day for the next eight years. It could be eight years — but eight years. I don’t need that.
He’s like a smart person. If smart means a pampered goiter who has the business acumen of rancid lard and all the charm of an addict who hasn’t had a fix in a while.
But I do say if something should change, let us know. Now, in the meantime, my generals are great, are being briefed. And Mike Pence is being briefed, who is, by the way, one of my very good decisions. He’s terrific. And they’re being briefed. And I’m being briefed, also.
But if they’re going to come in and tell me the exact same thing that they told me, you know, that doesn’t change necessarily. There might be times where it might change. I mean, there will be some very fluid situations. I’ll be there not every day but more than that.
But I don’t need to be told, Chris, the same thing every day, every morning, same words. ‘Sir, nothing has changed. Let’s go over it again.’ I don’t need that.
I’ve never attended daily intelligence briefings, but I’m going to guess that the chances that they’re the same thing every day are lower than the chances that Trump isn’t contemplating a replacement First Lady. But of course, it’s anyone’s guess how much of the briefings he has attended are penetrating the dense layers of ego and incompetence. Maybe he thinks that nothing being blown up inside of the U.S. means nothing has changed.
Maybe we’re screwed.
