Former aide claims memos had to be written in 'Trump’s absurd voice'

Miles Taylor is opening up about just how pacified he says President Donald Trump is. According to Taylor, White House staffers go above and beyond to baby Trump, even in important matters. In a chat with MS NOW, Taylor spoke about allegations regarding how Trump’s aides handle him with kid gloves. “The specific allegations don’t sound surprising at all. They don’t treat Donald Trump like a baby. Donald Trump is a baby,” Taylor said firmly.

He says Trump refuses to read any briefs beyond one page, explaining that the president doesn’t do well with lengthy text and prefers illustrations. “In my experience, we could not give him more than single pages of paper to read because he wouldn’t read beyond a page of paper. And we were directed to put pictures on the papers that we gave him,” he explained.

Taylor describes the behavior of those who work with Trump as coddling and counterproductive to what his role requires of him as a president, saying he found it absurd that the text and illustrations protocol when having to explain a life-or-death issue to Trump.

“When we were trying to get the president to understand the options on the war in Afghanistan, the White House chief of staff asked me to sum up a 55-page classified memo in basically one page in Trump’s voice. And so I wish someone would go get that page out there. The government has it. It’s got all this bombastic, silly language that tries to explain serious things, but in his absurd voice, because he wouldn’t read the longer document,” Taylor said.

The experience was frustrating for Taylor, as these are issues of major importance, and no one, according to Taylor, gives Trump any pushback. “That’s very frustrating when you’re like, ‘Hey, we got a couple thousand people over there who could live or die, depending on your decisions.’ It can’t have gotten better in the past ten years.”

Trump’s reported one-page memos have been widely reported. Trump’s reported one-page memos have been widely reported. MS Now reported back in 2017 that Trump reportedly prefers to read “as little as possible.” The New York Postreported on a report from Reuters that Trump’s aides trick him into reading. As Taylor corroborated, memos are kept to one page and include lots of visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos that are easier for the president to digest. “He likes to visualize things,” said a senior administration official at the time. “The guy’s a builder. He has spent his whole life looking at architectural renderings and floor plans.”