President Trump reportedly compared the war in Afghanistan to the renovation of Manhattan’s upscale 21 Club during a meeting with his military advisers.

Trump was discussing a war strategy for the beleaguered country when he mentioned how the posh restaurant botched their restoration in the 1980s by hiring an expensive consultant, according to NBC News.

The president said the 21 Club had shut it doors for a year only to learn that they needed a bigger kitchen.

The restaurant closed for two months in 1987.

The anecdote was meant to stress how people with experience in the day-to-day operations of the venture may have better advice then so-called experts.

“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,” an official told NBC.