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Orange Meanie: "I hear you." Toad: So, following the eighth school shooting of the year, only forty-five days in, you appeared in public to talk to a carefully vetted group of people, and you needed notes from Ivanka to remember to show human empathy. Orange Meanie: Did that look bad? You know what? I don't give a shit. Toad: Is this on the record, sir? Orange Meanie: The appearance of incompetence is part of the con game. I'm not even gonna put in the effort to make it look like I'm trying to do this job. Toad: Your supporters are getting their money's worth, sir.

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Trump held a "student listening session" which curiously lacked some of the most vocal students from Parkland. He needed notes (written by Ivanka or possibly Hope "Will Work For" Hicks) to remind him to show empathy.

Needing notes isn't the problem; I'm sure being President is challenging and there's a lot to keep in mind all the time and notes help. The content is part of the problem; that the notes are written in the handwriting of an unprofessional fifth grader instead of, say, typed out by any number of the high-level experts the White House must have access to, is part of the problem; and the biggest problem is that Trump showed these notes in public in full view of the many cameras documenting everything he does; and all those problems together add up to a White House which is doing a lousy job at the clearest and probably most basic of its responsibilities and Trump doesn't care who knows it.

This isn't a conspiracy, it's just disrespect.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting is the eighth school shooting in the United States in 2018 according to CNN's somewhat conservative reckoning.