Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President

I’m starting to suspect that Donald Trump may not have been right when he said, “You know, I’m like a smart person.” The evidence continues to mount that he is far from smart — so far, in fact, that he may not be capable of carrying out his duties as president.

There is, for example, the story of how Trump met with the pastors of two major Presbyterian churches in New York. “I did very, very well with evangelicals in the polls,” he bragged. When the pastors told Trump they weren’t evangelicals, he demanded to know, “What are you then?” They told him they were mainline Presbyterians. “But you’re all Christians?” he asked. Yes, they had to assure him, Presbyterians are Christians. The kicker: Trump himself is Presbyterian.


Or the story of how Trump asked the editors of the Economist whether they had ever heard of the phrase “priming the pump.” Yes, they assured him, they had. “I haven’t heard it,” Trump continued. “I mean, I just … I came up with it a couple of days ago, and I thought it was good.” The phrase has been in widespread use since at least the 1930s.

Or the story of how, after arriving in Israel from Saudi Arabia, Trump told his hosts, “We just got back from the Middle East.”

These aren’t examples of stupidity, you may object, but of ignorance. This has become a favorite talking point of Trump’s enablers. House Speaker Paul Ryan, for example, excused Trump’s attempts to pressure FBI Director James Comey into dropping a criminal investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn on the grounds that “the president’s new at this” and supposedly didn’t realize that he was doing anything wrong. But Trump has been president for nearly five months now, and he has shown no capacity to learn on the job.

More broadly, Trump has had a lifetime — 71 years — and access to America’s finest educational institutions (he’s a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, he never tires of reminding us) to learn things. And yet he doesn’t seem to have acquired even the most basic information that a high school student should possess. Recall that Trump said that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, was “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.” He also claimed that Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War, “was really angry that he saw what was happening in regard to the Civil War.”

Why does he know so little? Because he doesn’t read books or even long articles. “I never have,” he proudly told a reporter last year. “I’m always busy doing a lot.” As president, Trump’s intelligence briefings have been dumbed down, denuded of nuance, and larded with maps and pictures because he can’t be bothered to read a lot of words. He’d rather play golf.

Donald Trump Is Proving Too Stupid to Be President

 

So you are saying that general knowledge question that Trump does not know the answer to is like God asking us deep question.

Trump claims he is a Presbyterian and yet he did not know that Presbyterian ministers are Christian.

Trump did not realize when he landed in Israel that Israel is in the Mid-East.

Trump didn't know that Andrew Jackson was not alive during the Civil War era.

Trump thought that Frederick Douglas is still alive and growing in popularity.

Trump didn't realize that by firing Comey that released Comey allowing him to testify under oath.

Trump picked a fight with Qatar and seemingly did not know we have an important air base there.

Just a beginning showing his ignorance ... or stupidity.

Thanks for agreeing that Trump is, at best, extremely ignorant and at worst really stupid.

 

I've never called him a mastermind. He may have handlers who are, but not Donald.

I doubt Trump knew that Putin was manipulating him and that he was colluding with Putin. After all Trump isn't very smart.

 

One example. Would you like a daily update on Trump?

 

Please give me a reference to your posted reply ... otherwise it is just opinion. Thanks.

 

Give them time. We are in the early innings of this game.

 

Too early in the game to make such final judgments.

 

Especially anyone who remembers how long these investigations take.

Now Trump has hurt himself with is tweets and his mouthing off. It may take less time than normal if he keeps this type of self-destruction up.