Ok a 50 page memo? That’s pretty friggin long. Depends how many of those you get a day.

But:

I summed up this highly classified memo into Trump’s sort of bombastic language because it was the only way he was gonna understand," Taylor added. “I mean, I literally said in there, ‘You know, if we leave Afghanistan too fast, the terrorists will call us losers. But if we wanna be seen as winners, we need to make sure the Afghan forces have the strength to push back against these criminals.’ I mean, it was that dumb and that’s how you had to talk to him.”

Great point. It takes a lot of skill to succinctly summarise some dense material for someone who juggles lots of things. Frankly I think we need more of that in the modern world - there is so much information out there! But the killer is that “bombastic language” and false dichotomy. Making things easier to understand - clarity - is important. This good versus evil bullshit is just wrong; unfortunately stuff isn’t that easy.

No. The President of the United States of America needs to br able to internalize and contextualize the details of thr current geopolitical climate over corn flakes. This “only human” bullshit has got to go.

Absolutely agree with you. The point I wanted to make is that there are different ways to summarise, say, in this example, a 50-page memo. The sad thing here is how the official needed to resort to the good versus evil false dichotomy. This oversimplification to have been required because, unfortunately, Trump is stupid.

I guess I’m saying that it’s a shame that there are probably a lot of smart people trying to make sense of all the geopolitics, picking things apart, critical thinking… but in the end it was all for nought; they had to appeal to someone - Trump - who never really wanted to, nor was able to, internalise or contextualise it.

For someone espousing that succinctly and simply communicating complex information is important you sure are shit at it.

Haha yes I think you’re right! I find it difficult. And I’m interested in getting better at it. That’s part of the reason why I like discussing stuff on Lemmy. Do you have any tips?

I think my original comment was taken as if I was excusing Trump. That sucks. I wanted to convey the opposite :(