Trump's Nordstrom tweet was at 10:51 EST. He was scheduled for his intel briefing at 10:30.

[highplainsdem]

That bit of info courtesy of a tweet from Seattle Times reporter Jim Brunner:

Link to tweet

People noting Trump's @Nordstrom tweet came at 10:51 EST. He was scheduled to be in intelligence briefing at 10:30 http://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-nordstrom-in-tweet-over-ivanka/?utm_content=buffer753bb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_buffer_tw_m …

[exboyfil]

1. That might be the most chilling thing I will see all day

But the day is young.

[Achilleaze]

2. Well, it was a Republican-style "briefing"

so you can bet your bippy that if Intelligence happened at all it was damn brief, because otherwise it might interfere with teevee time, or the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief making his regular tweety-weenie WAR on the enemy du jour.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Bannon does the briefings and decides which brown people to bomb today.

Fuckface Von Pussygrabber has more important stuff to do, like complain about the level of softness of the hand towels on Air Force One.

[randome]

4. Trump tweeted while President Bannon attended the briefing. Business as usual.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]

[Solly Mack]

5. It was an intelligence briefing, kind of disqualifies Trump from attending.

That said - be glad he didn't tweet anything said during that very short intelligence briefing.

Small favors and all that.

Because I've noticed he says things he shouldn't say in tweets (besides the usual) and the things he is saying are things you know he just learned about (how the government operates) and then hints at what he now knows in tweets.

Very dangerous habit of his, as our enemies aren't as stupid as Trump.

[exboyfil]

8. So long as it doesn't get someone killed

Perhaps a way to get him removed?

[Solly Mack]

11. I think that my military family, now retired, are not the

only ones to have noticed some of his indiscreet tweets.

And if a Democratic president had tweeted some of the shit Trump has said - even in speeches, as he does not limit his slips to twitter - Congress would have already started the impeachment process because military/NS leaders would have already demanded it.

Trump is headed for a slip-of-the-tongue while bragging about how great he is and what he knows, and he will get more people killed. The botched Yemen raid - American deaths; they knew we were coming.

But I don't know if this GOP Congress will care enough to stop him. If Trump becomes a liability to them personally, they will.

Trump can't make a speech without interrupting himself and his train of thought wildly meanders off course. Sometimes there is a course correction (he catches himself saying too much) but most often it is an abrupt halt for emphasis, signifying nothing really. And that inability to coherently connect two thoughts together has been his saving grace when he slips up and says too much, as a way of showing how great he is...he confuses people and they all too often don't hear the slip.

I get the feeling others in government hope people simply hear an idiot speaking, without really listening to everything he says.

But again, our enemies - not so dumb.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. It doesn't take long...

To read no more than 9 bullet points on a single page.

[dalton99a]

10. He probably stops after the first three.

[niyad]

13. you are assuming that he can read. or at least, read with comprehension.

[yallerdawg]

6. For 70 years:

"I got my mind on my money, my money on my mind."

Intelligence briefings are for losers.

[haele]

9. Staff meetings are supposed to last 15 minutes. An intelligence brief is not a staff meeting...

Intelligence briefings should last at least an hour - at a district office level in the military.

At any large scale operation executive level (no matter if government and business) meeting, any strategy and intelligence meetings last at least an hour if there's absolutely nothing is going on - and pretty much an entire morning/afternoon session if they're in the middle of a transition, or if there's several issues of importance going on. Everyone is supposed to have something on everything in their particular operations, even if it's just a status report indicating it's all going smoothly and there's no problems that are going to jump up and bite them in the butt.

Unless of course, they're just "covering their asses" and waiting for something big to happen.

On edit - or if the meetings are just show for the figurehead auto-signer, and they've already had their strategy and intelligence briefing for the real sponsored Triumvirate currently in charge (Cough, cough...Bannon/Pence/Preibus)


Haele

[niyad]

12. been out of touch a bit--what the HELL is he pissed off at nordy about?

[highplainsdem]

16. They dropped Ivanka's merchandise.

[niyad]

19. thanks. I am surprised that they ever carried it in the first place.

[trof]

18. They dropped Ivanka's crap.

[niyad]

20. thank you.

[grantcart]

26. Like, 15 things happened already this morning. Guessing you missed the "easy D" too.

[onethatcares]

14. he's a smart guy, ya know?

doesn't need to hear things everyday, day after day after day. he told us that early on.

[randome]

15. He has a very big head.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Donald Trump's scorecard:
Muslim ban = failed. Yemen raid = failed. Approval ratings = failed.
Mexican wall = failed. Economic utopia = failed. Grade point average = 0.[/center][/font][hr]

[onethatcares]

17. and

small, soft hands.

[tanyev]

21. Remember how it came out that Sarah Palin never paid attention during meetings she attended as Gov.?

She was there, but she was constantly on her Blackberry. Trump really is Palin on steroids.

[bettyellen]

23. Remember how she refused to spend time in the capital and phoned it in from her home....

The one made from free labor and from the same lumber and fixtures as the big sports complex she rammed through at home when she was mayor?

[FSogol]

22. LOL, he sent the tweet while he someone was briefing him!

[Kingofalldems]

24. He's a teenager playing president.

[grantcart]

25. When they start talking about Russia he starts tweeting

[GusBob]

27. It was a subject of the briefing

This indicates to me Nordstroms product lines are matter of national security

[Hekate]

28. Short-attention-span intel briefings. Red Don's part in it was over by then. smh

[wordpix]

30. but he's the greatest smartest student ever! (said this today, paraphrased)

[VOX]

29. After the Bowling Green Massacre, Trump's declared war on Nordstrom.

This guy's priorities are that of a lunatic. I regard him as such. The quicker he's gone, the better.