Donald Trump the intellectual lightweight….

Before meetings and calls with world leaders, President Trump receives briefings of only “about two minutes… and sometimes that gets cut by a bit,” a recently departed White House official said today.

What they’re saying: Fernando Cutz, who left the White House in April and served on the National Security Councils of both Trump and Barack Obama, said Obama would read detailed pre-briefs — highlighting key passages and scribbling notes in the margins — before an oral briefing ahead of such meeting. Not so for President Trump.

• “If it was a 4-page briefing, we’d start at page 5 because you knew he’d read and digested everything in there,” Cutz said of Obama.
• With Trump, “we were given about 2 minutes to brief him before a visit. Sometimes that gets cut by a bit.”….

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