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
You post the most comical articles...
White evangelicals' support of Trump holding steady - CNNPolitics.com
www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/pew-analysis...evangelicals-trump/index.html
Apr 28, 2017 - President Donald
Trump's widespread
support among white
evangelicals is holding steady as he approaches his 100th day in office...
Common knowledge ~ middle east is paralleled Islamic states, save Israel.
A person "not" aware of a cliche' is "far from smart"? LOL
A person who does not claim to be a Biblical Scholar is "far from smart"? LOL
A person who gives his take on historical figures, and their impact, somehow becomes translated he did not recognize those people were dead.... LOL
A person who asks questions, answers questions, gives information about himself.....is...according to the article....
"ignorant", "far from smart", a "braggart", "stupid", "proud acting"......
Seriously....the author of this article is present during Trump's intelligence briefings to KNOW what language is used? LOL
Seriously....the author of this article KNOWS Trump would rather be "golfing" then doing the JOB he spent millions campaigning in seeking his JOB, when He own golfs courses that he could have played golf DAILY at his leisure? LOL
Funny. I recall Jesus asking questions, answering questions, giving information about himself.....
Funny. Author "Max Boot"... is anti-Trump, in case one did not know by reading his articles. LOL
Donald Trump has announced he is a Christian.
Funny. I can find no document of Russian born Max Boot claiming he is a Christian.