Column: Donald Trump's biggest flaw: He's not that bright

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-donald-trump-dumb-20171103-story.html

Donald Trump has many serious flaws, including incorrigible dishonesty, rampant narcissism, contempt for women and a fashion sense that makes him think that hairstyle of his is flattering. But nothing compares to his most prominent, crippling and incurable defect: He’s dimmer than a 5-watt bulb.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was reported to have called the president a “moron” — emphasizing that term with an adjective I can’t repeat here. Forced to hold a news conference to praise the president’s intelligence, Tillerson was too honest to deny what he had said.

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The late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” says Trump had “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.”

Trump’s feeble-mindedness is on daily view. When an Uzbek immigrant was arrested for allegedly driving a truck down a Manhattan bike path, killing eight people, the president responded in thunderously stupid ways. First, he tweeted that he had “just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program.” If you can step it up, why didn’t you do that before?

 

He fumed that the alleged killer wanted an Islamic State flag for his hospital room. Really? The guy reportedly killed eight people, and the flag is what steams you? Trump demanded the death penalty — opening the way for the suspect’s lawyers to argue that the president has made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.

Trump has learned nothing from his past blunders. As a candidate, he said Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was a traitor who should be executed. Asked about the case as president, he doubled down: “I think people have heard my comments in the past.”

The military judge announced he would count Trump’s statement as mitigating evidence — which may be why he ended up giving Bergdahl no prison time. Not only was Trump’s remark unnecessary and inappropriate; it was self-defeating.

He’s just not bright enough to make connections between his conduct and its consequences. Trump’s travel ban has lost repeatedly in court because he has made clear he has an unconstitutional goal: shutting out Muslims because of their religion. If he had kept quiet, he might have gotten his way.

 

The evidence of his dimwittedness flows as continuously and voluminously as the Mississippi River. His tweets are studded with misspellings, random capitalizations and mystifying quotation marks.

He taps out tweets that flagrantly contradict what he tweeted when Barack Obama was president, making himself look ridiculous. When he holds forth on policy issues, it’s excruciatingly apparent he has no idea what he’s talking about.

Trump relies on a vocabulary the size of a second-grader’s. To combat opioid abuse among teens, he favors “telling them, ‘No good, really bad for you in every way.’ ” Those paper towels he tossed to a crowd in Puerto Rico were “very good towels.” He wanted to call the tax reform bill “the Cut Cut Cut Act.”

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

6 minutes ago, Suss&Camm said:

Or are there just enough US voters equally dumbwitted?

I think you mean dimwitted.

 

It’s not like there was really any other option on the table, after Hillary got rid of Bernie.

[Suss&Camm 2,213]

Just now, IDWAF said:

I think you mean dimwitted.

hah! That's actually funny  Yes, and I blame language over dimwittedness (?) on that one...

Just now, IDWAF said:

It’s not like there was really any other option on the table, after Hillary got rid of Bernie.

I know it was not an easy one - I'm just surprised at the fact that the "moral corruptness" of HC is the main issue ppl take with her - yet DT can be as morally corrupt as the worst of them and his base continues to cheer him on...

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

23 minutes ago, Suss&Camm said:

hah! That's actually funny  Yes, and I blame language over dimwittedness (?) on that one...

I know it was not an easy one - I'm just surprised at the fact that the "moral corruptness" of HC is the main issue ppl take with her - yet DT can be as morally corrupt as the worst of them and his base continues to cheer him on...

I was laughing WITH you, not AT you, lol.  As with many on here, you probably speak multiple languages better than I speak my own, so I am certainly not judging.

 

Perhaps because I never really followed Trump in the past, never watched his reality show, etc., I have been much less aware of his bad stuff than HRC.  Her lies and connivances have just amounted to too much for me to ever trust her as a leader.

 

Edited November 4, 2017 by IDWAF

[Suss&Camm 2,213]

1 minute ago, IDWAF said:

I was laughing WITH you, not AT you, lol.  As with many on here, you probably speak multiple languages better than I speak my own, so I am certainly not judging.

 

Perhaps because I never really followed Trump in the past, never watched his reality show, etc., I have been much less aware of his bad stuff than HRC.  Her lies and connivances have just amounted to too much for me to ever trust her as a leader.

I was laughing AT me hahaha - it was a very "caught with the trousers down" (Swedish expression for being publicly shamed  ) - sort of moment 
 

Here's to better options next time around  

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

9 minutes ago, Suss&Camm said:

I was laughing AT me hahaha - it was a very "caught with the trousers down" (Swedish expression for being publicly shamed  ) - sort of moment 
 

Here's to better options next time around  

I understand the expression.  We have the same one here.  Wish I could say it never happened to me, but alas, it has.  Several times...  

Yes, here’s to better options.  We truly need them!

[Ban Hammer 12,827]

50 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

 

It’s not like there was really any other option on the table, after Hillary got rid of Bernie.

[CaliCat 3,957]

22 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-donald-trump-dumb-20171103-story.html

Donald Trump has many serious flaws, including incorrigible dishonesty, rampant narcissism, contempt for women and a fashion sense that makes him think that hairstyle of his is flattering. But nothing compares to his most prominent, crippling and incurable defect: He’s dimmer than a 5-watt bulb.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was reported to have called the president a “moron” — emphasizing that term with an adjective I can’t repeat here. Forced to hold a news conference to praise the president’s intelligence, Tillerson was too honest to deny what he had said.

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The late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” says Trump had “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.”

Trump’s feeble-mindedness is on daily view. When an Uzbek immigrant was arrested for allegedly driving a truck down a Manhattan bike path, killing eight people, the president responded in thunderously stupid ways. First, he tweeted that he had “just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program.” If you can step it up, why didn’t you do that before?

 

He fumed that the alleged killer wanted an Islamic State flag for his hospital room. Really? The guy reportedly killed eight people, and the flag is what steams you? Trump demanded the death penalty — opening the way for the suspect’s lawyers to argue that the president has made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.

Trump has learned nothing from his past blunders. As a candidate, he said Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was a traitor who should be executed. Asked about the case as president, he doubled down: “I think people have heard my comments in the past.”

The military judge announced he would count Trump’s statement as mitigating evidence — which may be why he ended up giving Bergdahl no prison time. Not only was Trump’s remark unnecessary and inappropriate; it was self-defeating.

He’s just not bright enough to make connections between his conduct and its consequences. Trump’s travel ban has lost repeatedly in court because he has made clear he has an unconstitutional goal: shutting out Muslims because of their religion. If he had kept quiet, he might have gotten his way.

 

The evidence of his dimwittedness flows as continuously and voluminously as the Mississippi River. His tweets are studded with misspellings, random capitalizations and mystifying quotation marks.

He taps out tweets that flagrantly contradict what he tweeted when Barack Obama was president, making himself look ridiculous. When he holds forth on policy issues, it’s excruciatingly apparent he has no idea what he’s talking about.

Trump relies on a vocabulary the size of a second-grader’s. To combat opioid abuse among teens, he favors “telling them, ‘No good, really bad for you in every way.’ ” Those paper towels he tossed to a crowd in Puerto Rico were “very good towels.” He wanted to call the tax reform bill “the Cut Cut Cut Act.”

 

So, the majority of the American people agree the so-called president is lacking in intellectual capabilities. That coupled with the ever present suspicion of mental illness explains his erratic behavior.

[CaliCat 3,957]

7 hours ago, Suss&Camm said:

Or are there just enough US voters equally dumbwitted?

[eieio 1,594]

4 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

So, the majority of the American people agree the so-called president is lacking in intellectual capabilities. That coupled with the ever present suspicion of mental illness explains his erratic behavior.

Does not really matter what they believe….see one of my previous posts. He is a political genius and he will win again in 2020…unless the stock market crashes. Then its just 50/50.

 

You might as well learn to love him as you will have to do less screaming. 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, eieio said:

Does not really matter what they believe….see one of my previous posts. He is a political genius and he will win again in 2020…unless the stock market crashes. Then its just 50/50.

 

You might as well learn to love him as you will have to do less screaming. 

He does not even know where we live, how will he sexually assault us?

[eieio 1,594]

26 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

He does not even know where we live, how will he sexually assault us?

He lives in your mind.

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