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Never informed or can’t read
i bet you a billion dollars it was in one of his daily briefings he didnt read.
Edit: the other option would be he called China, where he pays most of his taxes, and asked Winnie about the balloons, and believed china's lie over American Intelligence. >

Wouldn't be surprising if he never read or skimmed through a lot of briefings. >

God. He probably never read the thing unless someone showed him a picture and brief explanation of what the picture was. >

He was famous from innumerable sources for being so fucking dumb that literally nothing made sense to him and he never bothered to read anything. They had to condense briefings down to one page and tried to mention his name as much as possible because that was the only thing that would get his attention.
He doesn't know a single thing about history or the world or other countries so they couldn't even have an equal and useful discussion about any of the intelligence or issues of the day, like talking to a dumb and angry 3 year old that they all had to babysit and manage so he didn't blow up the world >

I think I found an intel briefing.
OH NO! RUSSIA is moving troops up to the UKRAINIAN border! Can you, President TRUMP, CIRCLE all 5 DIVISIONS with your SHARPIE? >

There were several of these put out by The Onion >

That's so funny, I don't know how I didn't see them before, I check out The Onion nearly every day >

Because he said he never read briefings and didn’t know anything unless it was read to him. How the US survived 4+ years of this douchebag as President… >

It's largely how we survived. He doesn't like working and he never really did that part of the job. He was too lazy and stupid to really fuck things up. We have accounts that aides would swap out proposed orders so he wouldn't sign them. He didn't notice until the story was leaked. >

However, he has shown how easily institutions can be dismantled. The next GOP president will be hardworking, intelligent and understand how government works, he will dismantle the Republic in a single term and replace it with corporate autocracy. The Pompeos and Barrs already have a plan. >

Exactly. Your comment deserves more attention because this is the exact plan for republicans. Also i want to add they will plan on maneuvering into lifetime appointments for the president and his appointees regardless of the law. They want a authoritarianism style of rule and will stop at nothing to get it. >

But power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony! >

He was a clueless POTUS without the brain necessary to handle the position. All he did was sit on his ass, watch Fox News, and order Diet Coke. It’s a wonder our country survived his four years of utter incompetence. >

The country survived, but tens of thousands died needlessly as a result of his incompetence and neglect of the ever growing opioid crisis and Covid, culminating in the largest drop in left expectancy the county had since WW2. >

We aren’t even a year above the avg life for the world anymore, and most 1st world European countries beat us in life expectancy. >

Well all the school shootings bring that stat down... >

He could either by lying because he’s a liar, or he could be telling truth because he overlooked it because he’s a dumbass. I’m torn between both choices. >

Or because he's senile and forgot >

Or because he's a moron and thought they meant birthday balloons >

God dammit that should just be a sarcastic remark but it could actually be plausible >

I’m thinking maybe there was a lot he was never informed of.  Good thing too. >

Put it in the bottom half of the briefing but don't bring it up at the meeting. The world is safer, and your ass is covered. >

Hey, maybe they used the ol' Rhodesia solution! >

“According to a Florida Republican,” is all you need to know. >

Florida Man Yells at ~~Cloud~~ Balloon >

Wow, if no one in the Trump administration knew about these balloons at the time, it goes to show just how incompetent they were.
Unless, as is most likely, they did know, and they just let it happen. Maybe that's how Ivanka got those patents.
Also, "fake disinformation"... Is that going to be his new catch phrase instead of "fake news"?
The GOP is beyond useless. >

As opposed to real disinformation maybe. >


As opposed to real disinformation maybe.

... So "fake disinformation" = real information?
If we're following the double-negative rule and all... >

"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." >

Let’s see. Either:
The Pentagon, the headquarters for the Department of Defense which is responsible for all areas of national security and the armed forces, decided not to tell the the most powerful man in America and Command in Chief, about a foreign country sending a remotely piloted aircraft that could be a surveillance device into their airspace that’s flying across civilian populations and potential high level intelligence infrastructure. 
Or, they did tell him and they’re once again adding to a mountain of lies, which probably has a summit about the same altitude as the balloon.
On three occasions… >

That’s not the summit … that’s the base camp! 😆 >

Not like he really cared. Doubt he even knew what day it was without the tv telling him because his favorite reality shows weren’t on. >

They would have had to draw balloons and a diagram for tRump to understand! >

And then he would draw boobs on the balloons with his Sharpie, just like he did with Hurricane Dorian. >

More like he got the briefings but didn't pay attention or care.   The idiot needed briefings to be like reading a picture book >

And if he didn’t do his job relative to the balloons during his presidency then what other jobs didn’t he do because he didn’t care or didn’t listen¿ >

Covid for starters 🤣, ensuring a peaceful transition of power after losing the election and court challenges, those are pretty big by themselves, do you need more, user bunch of numbers??? >

Okay, but that’s worse.  They get that that’s worse, right? >

Trump didn't get informed about a lot of things because everyone knew he was dumb and crazy.
For example, Kash Patel pretended to be a Ukraine expert for the WH. The actual Ukraine expert got edged out because Trump had already met Kash and Trumps handlers didn't want to confuse him.
That's how you treat a child or a geriatric entering his second childhood as senility sets in. That's how they treated Trump. >

So he is either not a leader, or he's an incompetent leader >

Translation: Trump slept through the PDB for 4 years straight. >

"And according to several Trump Admin national security officials - they were never informed of these intrusions by the Pentagon." 
According to Rep Michael Waltz. Who was a fresh congressman in 2019. And only has anonymous sources for his claim. And those anonymous sources would not necessarily know anything about what Trump was or wasn’t briefed on.
It’s incredible how bad journalism has become. >

You are right. I read the article, unlike most of the commenters in this thread, and it left so many obvious questions unanswered. >

Bullshit. He just wasn't paying attention. >

Fucking Liar... >

It was probably kept from him so he wouldn't throw ketchup on the wall and try to nuke the balloons and china right after.
With his lack of functional intelligence I assume there were several people deciding what he should know and what he shouldn't. >

Trump was not a competent Commander in Chief. >

In the wise words of Chidi: Okay, but that’s worse. You do get how that’s worse, right? >

It was probably in the intel briefings that he didn't find important. >

So more gross negligence from the Trump Administration..... >

Did any one expect
Him to be honest >

Some of his followers think he's never told a lie.  He just jokes and kids a lot.  In fairness they think the Bible is literal and ignores all those contradictions too. >

He said he always knew more than the generals. >

Didn’t tell him because he would’ve gone to war or tried to nuke the balloon >

Memo must have gotten lost in the swamp. >

No other  president ever had bigger beauty fuller spy balloons >

Trump was probably too busy watching FOX and making sure they were singing his praises, than to be bothered by a Chinese spy balloon. >

If he would’ve found out, what are the chances he would’ve bull in a China shop’ed us into WW3 (no pun intended). Maybe his handlers knew better. >

Him not being informed is not the gotcha this congressman thinks it is. >

There isn’t a large enough number for the amount of stuff trump isn’t informed about. The man is a literal clown in a suit. Evades paying taxes, lies about everything, and acts like a spoiled 16 year old. >

You gave him an extra 10 years he didn’t deserve. >

My guess is they tried to tell him he either did not read the daily memo or refused to listen because it did not interest him at the moment. Both things he routinely did during security briefings he would often be paying attention to tv or talking over people about his latest grievance.