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This is apparently a thing. This article came out last summer, but I just ran across it now.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
Emphasis mine. He really is a child.
So because of this habit of his, there are people who make more than 60k a year (who are records management analysts) who have to literally sift through the scraps of torn papers (rescued from the trash or the floor by staffers) and piece them back together like jigsaw puzzles with Scotch tape. In decades of public service, none of them have ever been asked to do such a thing as part of their job.
Historians will have an extra dimension of fun when they study this guy someday. And now I'm wondering what his Presidential library will be like and what it will have on display. At least this should be built sooner now rather than later...
Sadly, two of the guys mentioned in this article were abruptly fired some time ago.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches, sending them to the National Archives for safekeeping as historical records.
But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.
Emphasis mine. He really is a child.
So because of this habit of his, there are people who make more than 60k a year (who are records management analysts) who have to literally sift through the scraps of torn papers (rescued from the trash or the floor by staffers) and piece them back together like jigsaw puzzles with Scotch tape. In decades of public service, none of them have ever been asked to do such a thing as part of their job.
Historians will have an extra dimension of fun when they study this guy someday. And now I'm wondering what his Presidential library will be like and what it will have on display. At least this should be built sooner now rather than later...
Sadly, two of the guys mentioned in this article were abruptly fired some time ago.
Lartey, 54, and Young, 48, were career government officials who worked together in records management until this spring, when both were abruptly terminated from their jobs. Both are now unemployed and still full of questions about why they were stripped of their badges with no explanation and marched off of the White House grounds by Secret Service.
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