If you were trying to parody the kind of internal documents Trump advisers would produce, you might come up with something like this:
White House officials working on trade policy were alarmed last month when a top adviser to President Trump circulated a two-page document that alleged a weakened manufacturing sector leads to an increase in abortion, spousal abuse, divorce and infertility, two people familiar with the matter said.
The documents, which were obtained by The Washington Post, were prepared and distributed by Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. They were presented without any data or information to back up the assertions, and reveal some of the materials the Trump administration reviewed as it was crafting its trade policy.
Okay, NAFTA is bad. What can I say to convince people to do something about it? Abortion! Infertility! No, I don’t need no stinking data or citations.
Normally you’d expect something making such major and unsupported claims to be laughed out of the room, but nothing is normal here:
Navarro has urged Trump to favor bilateral trade agreements over regional ones such as NAFTA, and he supported the president’s decision to abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership. His documents alarmed other White House officials, who worried that such unverified information could end up steering White House policy, the two administration officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the documents, which were not released publicly.
In translation: if Trump saw this he might make a snap decision and announce a new policy on Twitter.