The Truths Presidents Hear—or Don’t (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

Presidents cannot govern by direct observation. They depend on the people around them to tell them what is actually happening.Recent episodes involving Doug Burgum and Pete Hegseth raise a troubling question: Has the organizational culture surrounding Donald Trump reached the point where delivering an uncomfortable truth carries greater personal risk than offering reassuring misinformation?The Truths Presidents Hear—or Don’t examines how leaders shape the organizations around them—and how those organizations eventually determine not only what presidents are told, but what they are willing to believe.— Dunneagin📖 To read the text of this essay and explore the catalog, visit Civics Unhinged on Paragraph.☕ Reader editions and collected volumes—including Volumes 1, 2, 3, and The Liar’s Guide to Autocracy—are available on the Fourthwall bookshelf.Reader and listener correspondence is always welcome at [email protected]. Questions, observations, or a note on how you first stumbled into the chronicle are particularly appreciated. Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe