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Report: Trump was unfamiliar with the scope of the president's job when meeting Obama
Yahoo ^ | November 13, 2016 | Mark Abadi

Posted on 11/14/2016 8:25:33 AM PST by Gamecock

President-elect Donald Trump celebrated his status as a Washington outsider during his campaign for the presidency, but his lack of familiarity with the US government appears to be coming into view as he transitions to the White House.

During Trump's private meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday, Trump "seemed surprised" by the scope of the president's responsibilities, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Trump's aides were also apparently unaware that the entire staff of the president working in the White House's West Wing would need to be replaced, according to The Journal.

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To: Gamecock

This is soooooo very stupid. I do not recall that Obama was ever described as ‘unaware of the scope’ of the presidency. Trump is the CEO of a huge business empire, a lot of experience as an administrator. He understands this completely.

Obama was an untried Senator with only 2 years in DC; his tenure in the Illinois Senate was mostly to be absent and non voting; his pre-politician days were as a community organizer.

Given his total lack of any qualification, it would not be surprising that Obama would not know about developing an agenda, a mission, etc. Maybe that is why he needed so many Csars in the WH????

But the MSM never mentioned this, not once.


181 posted on 11/14/2016 11:15:01 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: Gumdrop

But but but the LSM Told us they were going to change....


182 posted on 11/14/2016 11:16:00 AM PST by uncitizen (Ding Dong The LSM is Dead!)
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To: gogulls

Nothing like giving the Queen of England a set of DVD’s for your first Kenyan trip to England though...


183 posted on 11/14/2016 11:26:17 AM PST by griffin
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To: Gamecock

Yahoo said Trump couldn’t win primary and then Trump would drop out after winning primary and then Trump would lose big to The Loser Hillary Clinton....haha yahoo is the loser!


184 posted on 11/14/2016 11:42:03 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Gamecock

They can’t seem to help themselves.


185 posted on 11/14/2016 11:45:49 AM PST by gogeo (Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.)
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To: gogulls
And the fact that "He didn't know the West Wing's staff would need to be replaced" is completely irrelevant. Doesn't matter if it's a true statement or not.

President Elect Trump (love that!!!) won't be sitting across from the table, reading resumes of every secretary and assistant to the vice-department head. He has people who do that.

Good executives pick excellent people, then delegate. Trump is a good executive.

186 posted on 11/14/2016 11:47:49 AM PST by wbill
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To: Gamecock

>Is anyone who sits down in the Oval Office REALLY prepared for the duties of the POTUS?

Hummmm. From my reading of the Constitution, it doesn’t appear to be much work to begin.

IMO, our FRiends here fall into the same trap of projecting duty XYZ upon the presidency than is entitled\authorized.


187 posted on 11/14/2016 11:52:14 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Gamecock
Yep.

I'm in IT. Got promoted fast at my first consulting gig, wound up as director of field ops after a year or so, had 75-80 people reporting to me. Also, was so far in over my head that I couldn't see straight. Was a miserable and complete failure. It was a textbook example of the Peter Principle at work.

20-odd years later, I'm an executive again. Every day, I'm amazed at how little I knew back then. And, every day I learn something new in my current position. Never ceases to amaze me how shifting one small piece of the puzzle affects the entire company. Making good decisions is 10x harder than frontline grunt work.

188 posted on 11/14/2016 12:04:44 PM PST by wbill
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To: Gamecock

If I were a mod, this agitprop would’ve been nuked.


189 posted on 11/14/2016 12:07:19 PM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

Why? Too sensitive?

We need to hear what is being said out there, I’d rather hear it hear first than from some idiot on the street.


190 posted on 11/14/2016 12:23:44 PM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: Gamecock
'Sensitive?'   You obviously don't know me.

Rational oppo reports are one thing, desperation agitprop another.

191 posted on 11/14/2016 12:44:43 PM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

**Rational oppo reports are one thing, desperation agitprop another.**

In case you haven’t noticed we are not dealing with rational folk.


192 posted on 11/14/2016 1:00:39 PM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: Gamecock

I am thinking of starting a rumor on social media: — within 15 minutes of taking his oath, Trump will personally arrest and waterboard Obama.


193 posted on 11/14/2016 1:18:26 PM PST by Gator113 (Vote TRUMP!! -- "Because you'd be in Jail!" ~ LOCK HER UP! ~)
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To: hsmomx3
The media wants us to think he and his team are in total disarray.

That's what they said throughout his campaign, and it's why he lost... oh, wait.

194 posted on 11/14/2016 1:41:01 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: Gamecock

I think he should hire Linda Tripp out of retirement and let her set things up. She has proved he can trust her.


195 posted on 11/14/2016 1:45:56 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: lonestar
That info would have had to come from Obama...who is still unfamiliar with the job. He knows the perks but not the job.

At least Trump knows to keep his feet off the furniture.


196 posted on 11/14/2016 1:58:44 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: jennychase
I have to say, trump must be shocked, How much cleanup is needed?

From the jump, that striped wallpaper has got to go!

He'll have Ivanka come over from the nearby Trump Hotel to renovate the West Wing, while Melania does the private quarters, and the entire family can work out the public reception rooms.

197 posted on 11/14/2016 2:02:13 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: Madame Dufarge
Barack Obama mistakes a window for a door at the White House

Good one. Then there's this:


198 posted on 11/14/2016 2:24:05 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: Gamecock

So let me get this straight. obama who cannot even drive a car knows how everything works because he is sooo smart while Donald Trump who has run a multi billion dollar real estate company for decades and has hired 10’s of thousands of people and has built skyscapers is too dumb.


199 posted on 11/14/2016 2:49:51 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Gamecock

TELL THE BIG LIE!

That is what LIEberals do!

Of course, Trump knows!


200 posted on 11/14/2016 3:48:31 PM PST by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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