Republican candidates seeking Trump's endorsement need to show him 'printouts' with 'big' fonts: 'He's not a real big digital guy'
"He's not a real big digital guy, so we had printouts," a Republican House candidate who won Trump's endorsement told The New York Times.
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- GOP candidates making the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago need big league charts, the NYT reports.
- Those vying for Trump's endorsement need to bring charts with photos, and "big fonts are crucial."
- A House candidate said he came with printouts because Trump isn't "a big digital guy."
Former President Donald Trump prefers Republican candidates seeking his endorsement to come equipped with "compelling visual material" when they visit him at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to the New York Times.
"He's not a real big digital guy, so we had printouts," Trump-endorsed House GOP candidate Joe Kent told The Times.
Kent is running in a primary challenge against Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, who was one of 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump's second impeachment.
Best practices for Trump printouts include photos and graphics in color, as well as big fonts, which Times reporter Shane Goldmacher described as "crucial."
Rep. Billy Long, a Republican of Missouri, recalled visiting Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump for a discussion on his Senate run in The Show-Me State when the former president "reached over and picked up another poll" after Long gave Trump a printed copy of another one, the congressman told The Times.
"Donald J. Trump is going to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it," Long said. "There is no secret sauce here."
Previous reporting by The Times found Trump struggled to focus during his daily intelligence briefings throughout his White House tenure, instead preferring bullet points and simplified charts, ideally limited to one page.
"I like bullets or I like as little as possible," Trump told Axios in January 2017. "I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. That I can tell you."