It’s obvious that Trump is not a smart person. His top aides have said as much and gives me reason to be terrified
This is not a smart person, this elected President of America. And it’s not just ignorance, it’s being dumb. Most people who are aware they’re not the sharpestknife in the drawer still have enough sense to know what they don’t know.
Most normal people are like this. But this guy really doesn’t know how ignorant and uneducated he is, and on top of that he doesn’t care! And that scares me.
His latest proof is a letter he sent to the President of Norway saying that because they didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, he guessed peace was no longer important and that they could kiss Greenland goodbye.
First of all, Norway itself plays no role in determining the Nobel prizes… it just happens there. Secondly, Norway is Norway, not Denmark. It’s Denmark that controls Greenland.
This is not a smart person. This person also suggested we nuke hurricanes (wouldn’t that break them up?).
He said the Revolutionary Army was able to take over the airports.
He lamented about the Civil War (why didn’t Lincoln just make a deal?).
He mentioned to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he knew they’d burned down our White House (it was the British).
This is not a smart person. High-ranking people who’ve worked with him (from Secretaries of State to Secretaries of Defense to Chiefs of Staff) have called him “dumb”, a “moron”, an “idiot” who once praised Hitler. One of his Fordham professors recalled him as “one of the dumbest students I ever had.”
He asked the President of Liberia how it was he spoke such good English (English is the official language of Liberia).
He asked his National Security Advisor if Finland is part of Russia. Most people who he defames as ‘low IQ’ are able to shut him up by a challenge to compare college transcripts. He stays mum on that.
And then there’s the issue of tariffs. How can it be that he still does not know or understand that foreign governments and suppliers do not pay the tariffs? Tariffs raise the costs at this end, forcing you and me to inevitably pay the higher prices that ensue.
This is not a smart person. And with true demons from hell (like Stephen Miller) constantly whispering into his ear like Grima Wormtongue to King Theoden, I’m getting pretty uncomfortable here. There’s a person always just feet away from this man who carries all the nuclear codes. Always there. Just feet away. From a person one of his Defense Secretaries once told aides has “the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader.”
This is not a smart person. And I, for one, am scared to death of him.
Where is Congress?
Van Carter of Sioux Falls is a retired broadcast journalist and environmentalist who published a green website for 15 years.
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