A pair of former White House aides demonstrated on Tuesday how they would reconstruct the papers President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE frequently ripped apart.

Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr. said on CNN that the process was like a puzzle, and laid out how they would reassemble the papers Trump tore apart so they could be filed and saved correctly.

"We literally had to spend hours per day piecing together the puzzle prior to taping them," Young told host Alisyn Camerota after going through the process in which he carefully spread out ripped pieces of paper on a desk and reconstructed them.

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Under the Presidential Records Act, the White House is mandated to preserve all documents that the president touches.

Lartey and Young, who have since been dismissed, said they spent months piecing and taping together a variety of documents Trump would tear apart.

The two former records management analysts told Politico that staffers had been tasked with this assignment as recently as this spring. They added that it stood in stark contrast to the way the Obama administration managed records.

“We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young told Politico. “I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”