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tank President Trump relies upon every day to run...
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How can you manage a sprawling organization if you won’t read anything?
Not very well, it turns out.
The president does claim to be highly...
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He has been touting his intellect for years and loves to boast about his great brain in private ...
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On the contrary, outside advisors who helped him with debate prep were mortified by his lack of understanding on the subject.
In 2018, he took to Twitter again to burnish his cognitive credentials: “My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” he posted in January 2018.
I think that would qualify
as not smart, but genius…and
a very stable...
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at t...
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Intelligence is one of those qualities that, if you insist you have it, you probably don’t. Nonetheless, Trump is known to interrupt briefings with assertions along the line...
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The president frequently claims to be an expert on issues about which, in reality, advisors will have f...
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Here is a sample from a much larger list put together by astute observers: On campaign finance: “I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do, because I’m the biggest contributor.” On the courts: ...
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On trade: “Nobody knows ...
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trade than me.” On taxes: “Nobody knows more about taxes than I do.” On ISIS: “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.” On the US government: “Nobody knows the system better than I do.” On technology: “Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.” On drone technology, specifically: “I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have.”
On the contrary, I’ve seen the president fall flat on his face when trying to speak intelligently about most of these topics.
You can see why behind closed doors his own top officials deride him as a...
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with the understanding of a “fifth or ...
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The man was a wreck, he lamented, and had a juvenile view of complex subjects.
Trump was all over the map when he spoke and was unfocused when it came time to sit down and talk about serious issues.
All I can tell you is that normal people who spend any time with Donald Trump are uncomfortable by what they witness.
He stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information,
not occasionally but with ...
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Those who would claim otherwise are lying to themselves ...
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The president also can’t remember what he’s said or be...
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Often, it appears Trump genuinely doesn’t remember important facts.
These are events that affect millions of Americans, yet they don’t seem to stick in his brain.
You don’t need to be a presidential appointee to witness his irregular mental state. Just watch any Trump rally.
Wheat is not a top US export to Japan. It’s not even one of our main agricultural exports to the Asian nation, as appointees in our Commerce Department later pointed out.
Also, his characterization isn’t a coherent way of thinking about how countries purchase goods.
Sadly, Trump has built a reputation on disinformation.
Serious people throughout the White House cringe when they hear him raise these subjects.
Trump will wrap his arms around bogus claims like they are old friends, and he doesn’t care if the person spewing them is a fraud, as long as their words serve whatever purpose Trump has in mind at the moment.
One of his favorite sources for news analysis is Lou Dobbs, a once-respected Fox host whose late-night show is now riddled with conspiracy theories a...
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The president goes to bed with Lou’s ideas floating in his mind, whether it’s conjecture...
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George Soros or ideas for new Justice Department...
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We know this because he regularly brings Lou’s ideas into the Oval Office the next morning, demanding they be implemente...
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I can’t think of another elected leader in this country who is so easily lured in by ...
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The president spreads false claims almost daily. He is the nation’s most prominent ...
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while simultaneously being its bi...
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Yet after making a demonstrably
untrue statement, the president displays zero remorse that he has done so.
Both his appointees and the public hear misleading statements from the president so often that we’ve...
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from an early claim that his inauguration was the largest-attended in history (this was easily debunked) to his insistence that the special counsel’s repo...
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Cicero defined the concept as a way of characterizing how an individual treats others.
Does the person maintain good fellowship with other people?
Does he or she give everyone what they deserve? And does the individual keep faith i...
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