Large piles of shredded paper
It’s a detail but…oh my god the childish mindless destructive stupidity.
Some Trump White House documents preserved by the National Archives were ripped up by the former president and had to be taped back together by government officials, the records agency said Tuesday.
“Some of the Trump presidential records received by the National Archives and Records Administration included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump,” the agency said in a statement to NBC News. “As has been reported in the press since 2018, White House records management officials during the Trump administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records,” a reference to reports that Trump habitually ripped up documents and threw them away after reading them.
It’s the “habitually” that drives me crazy. Break the habit then! Act like an adult! Act like an adult with a serious adult job that has an impact on billions of people! Find out what the rules are and then follow them. The rule is that such documents are to be preserved, period, no exceptions. He’s not allowed to “rip them up” as if they were yesterday’s grocery list.
The President Records Act requires that all presidential records be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their administrations, the agency’s statement noted.
Politico reported in 2018 that White House officials had to use clear Scotch tape to reconstruct large piles of shredded paper from former President Donald Trump as if it were a “jigsaw puzzle.”
He’s that stupid and heedless. A building should fall on him.
Remember all the Republican swooning when Pelosi tore up a copy of the asshole’s State of the Union Address? Where are all those poor snowflakes now?
I’m not sure that it’s stupid and heedless. I think it’s a lifelong strategy he’s used to avoid having a paper trail (or electron trail, in the case of his refusal to use email) that could be used against him legally.
I suppose the stupid part is assuming that just ripping up the paper would be good enough to keep it from getting to the archives. He probably should have had a shredder in the Oval Office if that was his goal, though even then I’m sure staff (at least, the ones who don’t want to run afoul of the Act) would just keep copies.
More mind blindness. He probably figured that his designation of something being trash would be followed through by any and all
underlingsstaff in the White House. Donald the First has Spoken. All bow.Surely they mean that he habitually ripped them up and threw them away after pretending to read them, or after struggling to read the first few words. He cannot read. I mean, yes, with great difficulty he can read a few words, but he cannot sustain that over a few lines (and has no interested in doing so).
Pelosi tore the print-out of his speech well after his habitual document ripping was reported.
Pelosi tore up his speech as a sign of disrespect. Her particular copy of the speech was not covered by the Presidential Records Act. It was just one of hundreds of copies.