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“Are badgers bad?”, An issue that intrigues Trump

2020-02-17T16:24:18.501Z


The president of the United States asked about the character of the animals to his first chief of staff during the White House briefings


Badgers are small omnivorous mammals with several species belonging to the Mustelidae family, relatives of ferrets, turons, otters and weasels, and the Mephitidae, the same as skunks or skunks. To know it, just consult the article dedicated to Wikipedia for less than a minute. But Donald Trump must have considered these animals intriguing enough to spend part of the time in the briefings with his chief of staff with questions about whether they are good or bad with humans or if they have their own personality.

The anecdote appears in a new book about the universe of the American president entitled Sinking in the Swamp , subtitled How Trump's minions and misfits poisoned Washington. It is the work of two reporters from The Daily Beast digital that cover the White House news, Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng, collects The Guardian newspaper .

The pages of the book reveal how the most powerful person in the United States interrogated his chief of staff during the first months of the presidency, Reince Priebus, with questions about those mammals such as "are they bad with people?" or "Are they friendly creatures?" I also wanted to know what badgers' behavior was like, to know how they "work" and find out if they had "personality" or, instead, if they were rather boring.

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Beyond informing the president of international conflicts and the internal agenda of his country, Priebus was required by Trump to also tell him what badgers eat and how aggressive or even deadly they become when they perceive a threat. "What kind of damage can a person inflict with those impressive sharp claws?" Trump questioned, the book quotes the Business Insider portal .

Trump also asked his chief of staff, pick up the book, to show him pictures of the species. It is true that in Washington DC they are not free. The distribution of the American badger includes all states from the west coast to Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, according to the PBS Nature Works portal, American public television.

"An obviously fascinated president would look at Priebus while his assistant struggled to get sufficiently appealing answers and tried to politely divert the conversation to whether we were going to increase troops in Afghanistan or strip millions of Americans of medical coverage," quoted the text of the book on. British newspaper

Trump dismissed Priebus, a man with moderate fame, in July 2017, seven months after appointing him as head of his cabinet, a position of the utmost importance in the power structure of Washington. The president dropped him in his style, through a message on Twitter, and named General John Kelly instead.

The book also picks up Trump's questions about space debris: where it goes, where it falls from Earth, what exactly that is up there, circling the Earth, what or who is generating that garbage and if it poses a threat for American national security.

The anecdote of the badgers has delighted the host of the NBC Seth Meyers, who last week echoed the launch of the book on his nightly program. "We know that Donald Trump is not a very read man, but it is still amazing to find out the things that make him curious. This week we have learned one of the rarest and dumbest to date," said the showman .

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Source: elparis

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