A Shining Example of President Man Baby's Personal Jobs Initiative

[Perknose]

Over and over and over again, you just can't make this stuff up:

[Soloman] Lartey, who earned an annual salary of $65,969 as a records management analyst, was a career government official with close to 30 years under his belt. But he had never seen anything like this in any previous administration he had worked for. He had never had to tape the president’s papers back together again.

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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.

Staffers had the fragments of paper collected from the Oval Office as well as the private residence and send it over to records management across the street from the White House for Larkey and his colleagues to reassemble.

“We got Scotch tape, the clear kind,” Lartey recalled in an interview. “You found pieces and taped them back together and then you gave it back to the supervisor.” The restored papers would then be sent to the National Archives to be properly filed away.

It's not going to get better, is it, folks?

Also, thanks @Puffnstuff, for "President Man Baby." I may have to adopt this as my new sobriquet for him.

Special edit for Mr. F. Meat: So. Much. Winning!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

"Scrambles for dictionary"

 

[Greenman]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

 

[feralkid]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

Not sure if serious.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Really confusing title...

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/presidential-library-so-much-winning.2548380/

 

[Perknose]

I think it's bazaar [sic] that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

I heartily agree with the latter part of your statement. But you reveal your ignorance in your poorly phrased and wildly overstated (hint: it's not "every paper the President touches" ) reply as to why preserving a historical record of the important papers of state will help future historians parse what happened, to the benefit of us all.

You're just a self-exposed, shallow ignoramus on a political web site. That our President can't understand and/or doesn't care is another, deeper, sadder matter.

 

[Greenman]

I heartily agree with the latter part of your statement. But you reveal your ignorance in your poorly phrased and wildly overstated (hint: it's not "every paper the President touches" ) reply as to why preserving a historical record of the important papers of state will help future historians parse what happened, to the benefit of us all.

You're just a self-exposed, shallow ignoramus on a political web site. That our President can't understand and/or doesn't care is another, deeper, sadder matter.

Quoted from the material you posted. "Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches".
Tell me again which one of us the shallow ignoramus? Perhaps you should read your cut and past statements before defending them.

 

[Perknose]

Quoted from the material you posted. "Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House must preserve all memos, letters, emails and papers that the president touches".
Tell me again which one of us the shallow ignoramus? Perhaps you should read your cut and past statements before defending them.

Some people are too ignorant to grok just how ignorant they are. You're one of them. This whole state of affairs is just . . . "bazaar."

 

[Perknose]

Really confusing title...

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/presidential-library-so-much-winning.2548380/

Eh. Report me to those Nazi mods who run roughshod over this site. I hate them . . . those goddamned Nazi mods.

 

[Commodus]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

It's about preserving the historical record so that we have the full story of what happened, not just the image the President wants to project. If you're baffled by concepts of historical accuracy and accountability... well, that'd explain a lot.

 

[Greenman]

Some people are too ignorant to grok just how ignorant they are. You're one of them. This whole state of affairs is just . . . "bazaar."

Robert must be rolling over in his grave.

 

[Perknose]

Robert must be rolling over in his grave.

Well, to be fair, there's not much else you can do for cardio when you're six feet under.

 

[Jaskalas]

So who gets paid to archive the "Presidential" tweets? Is it like reading the funny pages?

 

[soulcougher73]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

$66k/year seems like chump change for such a historically important position to be honest. I'm assuming this person lives in DC area which is not known for its affordability.

 

[MrSquished]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

First of all bizarre, not bazaar. A bazaar is like a flea market. Second that sounds like a good deal for someone to do a job of that importance.

 

[zinfamous]

Maybe if they give him some of those child safety scissors to cut up the papers instead, it will be both easier to repair his documents and also more entertaining for POTUS!

 

[alien42]

not long ago this would have been an Onion article and not real life.

 

[cytg111]

Eh. Report me to those Nazi mods who run roughshod over this site. I hate them . . . those goddamned Nazi mods.

I might be wrong but I have strong sense that if I reported you to the "Nazi mods", infraction would fall upon me, not you .

 

[zinfamous]

Eh. Report me to those Nazi mods who run roughshod over this site. I hate them . . . those goddamned Nazi mods.

Mod call-out! Mod call-out! D:

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I might be wrong but I have strong sense that if I reported you to the "Nazi mods", infraction would fall upon me, not you .

Fuck I’ll report it for you if that’s good. They are nearly identical threads to me.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

I have a bizarre feeling if there was a President Hillary your response would be different.

 

[snoopy7548]

The hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on trips to Mar-a-Lago are certainly more well-spent than the $66k/year to preserve presidential records.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

@Perknose end the first post with:

So. Much. Winning! Then I’ll agree this is a far better thread


Thank you

 

[Perknose]

@Perknose end the first post with:

So. Much. Winning! Then I’ll agree this is a far better thread


Thank you

Lol, done, good sir.

 

[brycejones]

I think it's bazaar that every paper the president touches has to be preserved, and that we pay a guy $66k per year to file it.

Yeah, we should let the President decide what should be preserved. I'm sure nothing bad could come from that.