Consider That Trump Might Just Be Stupid

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In his article at the following link, author Paul Blest is spot on when he states, “Donald Trump has spent the entire first year of his presidency doing the opposite of learning on the job. Nowhere is this more plainly obvious than his grasp of foreign policy; the only thing he has learned, it seems, is that the media loves it when he bombs stuff or gets troops killed.”

Blest then gives an example of the idiot Trump showing his total ignorance of the issues during a meeting with Angela Merkel. He reports that, “Some officials in the Trump White House ‘found the episode humiliating,’ presumably because the head of the German government had to explain to the most powerful politician in the world how trade negotiations with one of the United States’ largest trading partners works, and because Trump changed his definition of ‘a new bilateral trade agreement with Germany’ in the same conversation.”

In the year since his inauguration, the conservative rag National Review moved from their stand, “Against Trump”, to defending his stupidity.

Another example proving the idiot Trump sorely lacks the knowledge necessary to be POTUS appeared in the New York Times. That piece attempted “to assign Trump’s foreign policy some kind of quality that can’t be boiled down to him not knowing anything. Reporter Mark Landler writes that Trump is ‘unpredictable and inward-looking’ and ‘remains an erratic, idiosyncratic leader on the global stage, an insurgent who attacks allies the United States has nurtured since World War II and who can seem more at home with America’s adversaries,’ namely Russia and China. He also says that Trump’s tweets ‘often make a mockery of his administration’s policies and subvert the messages his emissaries are trying to deliver abroad.’ “

The idiot Trump’s supporters find his stupidity to be his most appealing quality, as it echoes their own deficiency in knowledge. Conservatives hear in the idiot Trump’s vile rhetoric vindication of their own, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, and his permission to openly embrace the Nazis’ movement here in the U.S. (Conservatives’ have obviously forgotten WWII and why it was fought.)

In closing his column, Blest concludes, most accurately, that “Trump is ‘unorthodox’ because he doesn’t know anything. Contrary to what some in the media would like to believe, there is no doctrine or approach, just whatever Trump feels like saying or doing at any given moment. Trump isn’t unpredictable or inward-looking, but rather completely clueless and unwilling to learn.”

Here again, the idiot Trump’s refusal to familiarize himself with all the facts and protocols necessary to carry on an intelligent conservation with...anyone, fits well with the conservatives’ well-known disdain for education beyond the basic three Rs. (For conservatives, unaware of the term “three Rs”, it refers to readin’, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmetic.)

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Consider that you will never be a billionaire

 

Probably because he wasn't BORN to it

 

We have four or five problems and this article conflates three of them in the word 'stupid'. 1.He is ignorant by which I mean lacking in basic knowledge. required to do the job. 2. He is a dull bulb by which I mean he does not learn quickly, does do well with abstract ideas, and does not retain what he learns. 3. He is lazy by which I mean he does not read, or study or listen at length to issue discussion. He does not do his 'homework' so his ignorance is willful.

In addition we have his personality 'quirks' including his obstinacy, his narcissism, and his poor attention span, and his lack of a moral compass which are not directly connected to lack of intelligence and lack of knowledge, but exacerbate the impact of both.

On the plus side of the ledger, He is a great salesman as long as his mark isn't much brighter than he is.

 

Every Republican president is stupid according to the left. This has been happening for many, many decades.

Yawn.

 

Nope. I am 'to the left'. I think Eisenhower, Nixon and George Herbert Walker Bush, were smart, and most of the liberals I have talked to tend to agree that they were smart. Not saying they did not have blind spots, or issues where they apparently left their brains in the glove compartment, but generally speaking they were shrewd, knowledgeable and perceptive. Even Reagan and Bushbaby were not 'stupid' at least not in Donald's league because they had skills and compensatory strategies that mitigated any harm.

 

Trump is in a special class, all by himself.

 

I always thought that one of the best lines in the 2016 campaign, when Marco Rubio told a reporter that if Trump hand't inherited his daddy's money, he'd "be selling watches in Manhattan!"

 

Albert Einstein could have run as a Republican presidential candidate and the Dems would have called him a Neanderthal redneck.

 

Over the course of reporting on the Trump White House, I have spoken to people who brief Trump and people who have been briefed by him. I’ve talked to policy experts who have sat in the Oval Office explaining their ideas to the president and to members of Congress who have listened to the president sell his ideas to them. I’ve talked to both Democrats and Republicans who have occupied these roles. In all cases, their judgment of Trump is identical: He is not just notably uninformed but also notably difficult to inform — his attention span is thin, he hears what he wants to hear, he wanders off topic, he has trouble following complex arguments. Trump has trouble following his briefings or even correctly repeating what he has heard.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/29/16829806/trump-interview-new-york-times

 

And who's fault is that?

By the way. Nixon was VERY smart...unfortunately he was an immoral criminal

 

Nope...but then he'd never run as a Republican so...

 

Friggin scary

 

Democrats intentionally mischaracterize Republicans for political advantage.

It's inevitable. There's nothing you or I can do about it.

 

If you don't have anything of subsance to contribute, go away,

Just making up innane rants doesn't get it.

 

Meanwhile, Trump has turned the ship of state on a hard right turn.

He's the one having the last laugh.

 

Just pointing out the truth and the absurdity of modern liberalism.

 

Which is strange since his history is anything BUT hard right.
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I guess he'll take whatever position is most advantageous for him at the moment...

 

Without using anything approaching a coherent argument

 

Damn man, don't you do any research??? It's far more likely YOU and yours would have labeled him a left wing, socialist, marxist commie.

 

The Presidency was just another item on his bucket list, solely to satisfy his craving for attention.

His ignorance stems from the fact that he spends more time tweeting, golfing, and attacking his critics than he does contemplating international and domestic affairs; his followers are apparently willing to ignore this, for some eerie reason.

 

But he/she is responding to an inane rant.

 

Or perhaps he has his own well thought out views and they simply don't coincide with those of his critics. When a person thinks he's being fed a line of self serving horse crap or worse there is a tendency to tune it out after a while.

 

Nothing worth discussing here. It's just the usual name-calling and personal attacks. Borrrring.

Call me when something interesting comes up.

 

Every President ever put into office (with the possible exception of FDR once he was incapacitated) has been more intelligent than the average man.

Trump is no exception. He's clearly no Einstein, but he has his moments.