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Wow...dude slept until 11 and then tweeted through every briefing. Mystery solved.
Wow will they not like the answer to that question. >

But the answer is going to be “the deep state hid it from him” >

Even if the answer is "It was in the PDB for 10AUG18, 20APR19 and 11JUN20 which were read to him by Ivanka herself" the answer will be "The deep state hid it from him" >

They probably "hid" it by calling it a potential surveillance apparatus of unknown foreign origin instead of the Trump friendly term of Chinese Spy Balloon. >

Chinese spy "blimp" as trump put it.  He doesnt even have the word balloon in is very limited vocabulary. >

A blimp is bigger than a balloon. Thus a Chinese spy blimp is even more scary and dangerous that just a spy balloon. >

It has been referred to as an airship and it appears to have had some ability to produce thrust, not just changing altitude for directional control as a hot air balloon would.  As it probably did not have a rigid structure, “blimp” would be accurate.  “Zeppelin” is a brand name.  “Dirigible” implies a rigid airframe like the USS Akron or USS Macon. >

Thrust?  You mean some small propellers?  Against jet stream level winds?  Sure. >

It’s standard classification and taxonomy. The Goodyear Blimp has propellers.  A barrage balloon does not. >

I know ... because it wasn't on Fox & Friends! >

It was going to be in his daily briefing, but they had problems with the balloon pop-up book page and had to leave it out. >

"Pop... Pop... Pop-Up News Briefing" doesn't sound as fun as the music video version. >

Trump was unaware of a lot of things to which he should have paid more attention. >

We're probably better off that he didn't know and couldn't be bothered to attempt understand. He already foisted a lot of bad ideas with bad outcomes on us.
What would he have done about the balloons. Nothing. He counted Xi as a friend until about mid-2020. >

There's still a non zero chance he would have tried to nuke it, even over American soil.