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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164

“We got Scotch tape, the clear kind,” Lartey recalled in an interview. “You found pieces and taped them back together and then you gave it back to the supervisor.” The restored papers would then be sent to the National Archives to be properly filed away.

Lartey said the papers he received included newspaper clips on which Trump had scribbled notes, or circled words; invitations; and letters from constituents or lawmakers on the Hill, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“I had a letter from Schumer — he tore it up,” he said. “It was the craziest thing ever. He ripped papers into tiny pieces.”

Lartey did not work alone. He said his entire department was dedicated to the task of taping paper back together in the opening months of the Trump administration.

One of his colleagues, Reginald Young Jr., who worked as a senior records management analyst, said that during over two decades of government service, he had never been asked to do such a thing.

“We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young said. “I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”

The White House did not comment on the president’s paper-ripping habit. According to Young and Lartey, staffers in the records department were still designated to the task of taping together the scraps as recently as this spring.

Lartey and Young described a system that stands in stark contrast to how records management was conducted under the Obama administration, which ran a structured paperwork process.

“All of the official paper that went into [the Oval Office], came back out again, to the best of my knowledge,” said Lisa Brown, who served as President Barack Obama’s first staff secretary. “I never remember the president throwing any official paper away.”

Brown described a regimented process for dealing with presidential records. She said all paper that was going to the president “would go in a folder with labels — one color for decision memos, for example, and another one for letters. Documents would go out to the president and then come back to the staff secretary’s office in the same folder for distribution and handling. It was a really structured process.”

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NIKK..I laughed through this entire article! Whining never stops. I LOVE OUR PRESIDENT!

Kayleigh McEnany

‏ Truly amazing to watch the media’s breathless panic attack as President @realDonaldTrump advocates for the American worker instead of wining, dining, and cozying up to other world leaders. #AmericaFirst

Ronald Brownstein ‏(TheAtlantic)

This is how Trump in 18/20 will frame his shattering of international alliances & protectionist spasms. There could be a big working-class audience for that case. But will white-collar, more globally-oriented, voters accept it & will Ds pursue them by defending trade & alliance?**************************

NIKK-For years all we heard was how politicians were liars and would promise anything to get elected. Just get elected and then do the opposite. Its how its always worked. HOW dare our President do as he promised. And now the elites are yelling the Globalist and D's will be the winners. Fake..Fake..Fake.. was the aim always.