Keeping Trump’s Attention Is a Challenge

Washington Post: “In a disorderly West Wing in which decisions are evaluated not by ideology but by their impact on the Trump brand and their fealty to the president’s campaign-trail promises, McMaster has struggled to become a dominant foreign policy force… Among his biggest challenges was holding the attention of the president… Trump had little time for in-depth briefings on Afghanistan’s history, its complicated politics or its seemingly endless civil war.”

“Even a single page of bullet points on the country seemed to tax the president’s attention span on the subject.”

Said one Trump confidant: “I call the president the two-minute man. The president has patience for a half-page.”