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[–] 337 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.

This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people's bodies could be a treatment to COVID:

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If it was just him, it wouldn't be that bad. Kinda like Bush Jr. The problem is that he surrounds himself with yes-men. I'm sure you've seen meetings with him and his orbit. He says something, stupid as hell, and his cult claps, stands, cheers and/or laughs like it's worthy of a Nobel. It's seriously deranged behavior. It's a cult. Except he's just grandpa sundowner everyone agrees with to get in his good graces, or a child spouting nonsense while the parents just go "that's nice dear" absent-mindedly. He's so easy to fluff.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I feel we also devalue Bush jr. for the way he chose to speak to people. I feel you could call Bush a smart man, even politically savy, while still talking like a layman. However, Trump is genuinely dumb like his speech implies, and people just roll with it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I feel you could call Bush a smart man

    No.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He was dumb but playing dumber. I can't think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, that I can get behind. His Texan shtick was an obvious act. But, even without that, I don't think he had an IQ of 100. Like most politicians he had good emotional intelligence, and an ability to connect with people. Still, it was clear that even pretty basic concepts were a stretch for him.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I used to think that Trump was just dumb. But, recently I've become convinced that he's actually able to seem smarter than he actually is. Meaning, he appears to have an IQ of maybe 90, but he's faking it because he's actually closer to 80. His various coping mechanisms allow him to seem smarter than he is, but that "smarter than he is" still doesn't bring him up to average.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea

    so donvict watches public television. huh. the very same public television he wants to cut funding to...

    and for entertainment purposes, not just to find 'biased' news reports to whine about in an overnight all-caps twitter tantrum.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He probably just didn't know how to change the channel back to Newsmax.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure there was another similar incident in the last few months when some "policy" came out of the blue, and someone connected it to something else that had just recently been on TV. But, finding something like that is nearly impossible. What do you search for, "crazy policy ideas, Trump, 2025" There are just mountains of BS to sift through.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)