“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’” said 1 senior administration official. “It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. …he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, & people are scared shitless of him.”
Extraordinary how the system of intensely hierarchical deference, that leads to the US's gerontocracy, eventually flips over to these people basically getting elder abused