"The horror: Trump balked at being spoon fed conventional wisdom. To get a true sense of the arrogance and condescension behind the Mattis, Tillerson, Cohn “tutorial” for Trump, consider this statement by a “senior official” who helped plan the meeting:
"We were starting to get out on the wrong path [Note: the path the president campaigned successfully on and wanted to take], and we really needed to have a course correction and needed to educate, to teach, to help him understand the reason and basis for a lot of these things. We needed to change how he thinks about this, to course correct.
Everybody was on board [Note: that’s how it is with conventional wisdom], 100 percent agreed with that sentiment, [but] they were dismayed and in shock when not only did it not have the intended effect, but he dug in his heels and pushed it even further on the spectrum, further solidifying his views.
Who is the “f*****g moron” — the president who pushed back during a “tutorial” on conventional wisdom or anyone who didn’t realize that this sort of session would not have its “intended effect”?"
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/the-horror-trump-balked-at-being-spoon-fed-conventional-wisdom.php
Its ironic that Tillerson after this 'intervention' type meeting allegedly referred to Trump as a "f---ing moron".