Wisconsin pop quiz: How much do you know about badgers?<\/p>\n
Actually, let me rephrase that: Do you know enough about badgers to make Donald Trump happy? That very insane question is part of a depressingly real situation involving the president\u2019s former chief of staff<\/a>, Wisconsin native Reince Priebus.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve learned in the last three-plus years, Donald Trump is generally ignorant<\/a> and easily distracted. He acts on his own whims, which includes treating staffers like human Siris and Alexas. According to the new book<\/a> Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump\u2019s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington<\/em>, the president of the United States reportedly had a habit of interrupting important meetings to grill the chief of staff about his badger knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n there\u2019s a part of the book by @lachlan<\/a> & me that probs won\u2019t get excerpted anywhere, but i have a soft spot for it: President Trump would repeatedly derail WH\/policy conversations he was having w\/ Reince Priebus to ask him if Wisconsin badgers were mean to people & what they ate<\/p>\n \u2014 Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) February 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n