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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump's biggest flaw: He's not that bright (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-donald-trump-dumb-20171103-story.htmlDonald 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: Hes 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 cant repeat here. Forced to hold a news conference to praise the presidents intelligence, Tillerson was too honest to deny what he had said.
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.
Trumps 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 didnt you do that before?
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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, its excruciatingly apparent he has no idea what hes talking about.
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Trump tries to conceal his intellectual deficiency by insisting how smart he is. I went to an Ivy League college, he said last month. Im a very intelligent person. He has to make such affirmations because all the evidence indicates his cranium contains an airless void.
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Im sure plenty of readers are now saying Im the stupid one, with a brain far inferior to Trumps. They may be right. So I put a challenge to him: We both take an IQ test, administered by an independent body, with the results to be made public.
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But Im betting Trump will never submit to any process that would document his actual intelligence for the public to see. Hes dumb. But not that dumb.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was reported to have called the president a moron emphasizing that term with an adjective I cant repeat here. Forced to hold a news conference to praise the presidents intelligence, Tillerson was too honest to deny what he had said.
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.
Trumps 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 didnt you do that before?
-snip-
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, its excruciatingly apparent he has no idea what hes talking about.
-snip-
Trump tries to conceal his intellectual deficiency by insisting how smart he is. I went to an Ivy League college, he said last month. Im a very intelligent person. He has to make such affirmations because all the evidence indicates his cranium contains an airless void.
-snip-
Im sure plenty of readers are now saying Im the stupid one, with a brain far inferior to Trumps. They may be right. So I put a challenge to him: We both take an IQ test, administered by an independent body, with the results to be made public.
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But Im betting Trump will never submit to any process that would document his actual intelligence for the public to see. Hes dumb. But not that dumb.
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Donald Trump's biggest flaw: He's not that bright (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune) (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Nov 2017
OP
Or we could blame Hillary AND Bernie for letting Trump to be so dang stupid!
JoeOtterbein
Nov 2017
#1
Yes, that is the very first time I have heard that term.."dimmer than a 5-watt bulb"
Stuart G
Nov 2017
#5
JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)1. Or we could blame Hillary AND Bernie for letting Trump to be so dang stupid!
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)2. Dimmer than a 5-watt bulb 💡💡💡
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)5. Yes, that is the very first time I have heard that term.."dimmer than a 5-watt bulb"
..I have heard , 20, 10, 25...but never 5 watts.. Outstanding, and that is pretty dim !!
iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)7. I like that one...will start using that.
stopbush
(24,399 posts)3. tRump thinks hes smart because his IQ is 100
He thinks that means 100%.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. Trump is so dim
he thought Moby Dick was a social disease.
murielm99
(30,785 posts)6. An airless void!
Midnight Writer
(21,856 posts)8. There are different kinds of smart. He has one.
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)9. I Long Ago ...
... challenged him to an IQ test as a Pay-Per-View event, with the proceeds going to charity. I received no response. I recommended using the NFL's Wonderlic Test, 50 questions in 12 minutes, figuring that his attention span would be strained even in that short a time. Only one NFL player has ever gotten all 50, a punter on the Bengals who was a Harvard grad. I only have a public school education, but I figured I could put my house up on a side bet, w/o much risk!
JoJo
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)10. He's an absolute idiot.
It's obvious to anyone who is not taken in by his bullshit.
KelleyKramer
(9,014 posts)11. Just watch any of Trump's sit down interviews
All he does is spew incoherent jibberrish
He is dumber than a box of rocks
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)12. If tRumps school records were ever released....
There would be all kinds of information regarding his intelligence. Grades would be available, of course, but he probably took an IQ test and various aptitude tests at some point in his school years. It probably would be fun reading the comments from his teachers that went on his permanent record.
Gothmog
(145,965 posts)13. Trump is an idiot