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Trump told his advisers that the restaurant, Manhattan's elite '21' Club, had shut its doors for a year and hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation.After a year, Trump said, the consultant's only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen.
“We aren't winning. … We are losing.”
Officials said Trump kept stressing the idea that lousy advice cost the owner a year of lost business and that talking to the restaurant's waiters instead might have yielded a better result. He also said the tendency is to assume if someone isn't a three-star general he doesn't know what he's talking about, and that in his own experience in business talking to low-ranking workers has gotten him better outcomes.
The '21' Club, which has been one of Trump's favorite New York spots, c
losed for two months in 1987 while it underwent a full renovation and reopened to great fanfare.
One senior administration official said the president mentioned the restaurant in an attempt to convey to his advisers that sometimes the best advice comes from those working day-to-day in a place, rather than those who are farther removed.
"The clear message if you heard the story was: high-priced consultants or high-priced anybody, expensive supposedly-big-brained people, but who are physically far from the source of the problem, often give you much worse advice than the supposedly low-ranking guys who are right there," the official said.
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My husband is Military and after reading this to him he told me Trump is smart. That is exactly what he needs to do and anyone who gets in his way he should fire. He needs to go to the troops and talk to those guys, find out what they need to win and what strategies they believe will work best. He said the Generals pulled the same thing in Vietnam. Get rid of them. If these Generals are left overs from Obama they should be removed. Replace all high level military with non-Catholics and break up that inner circle that has been prevalent in the military for far too long. Then the President will get the results he is after and those mineral assets too.