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Wow. I used to think he just couldn't stop lying about tariffs...
But now I'm convinced he has NO idea what they are or how they work... NONE
He is exceptionally stupid.
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." - Professor William T. Kelley, Wharton School of Business and Finance
“This guy is a fucking Moron…”
—Rex Tillerson, Trump’s handpicked (first) Secretary of State
Yeah everyone tries to convince me he's smart and the ignorance is an act but I don't buy it. He truly is mega dumb.
He's an idiot-savant. A total moron with a special talent for self promotion. Which it turns out gets you very far in life (along with the head start one gets being born wealthy).
No, he’s just profoundly mentally ill. His narcissism is a singular force of nature.
It's really just the born wealthy. Your family is the biggest factor in success. That's why so many rich fucks are dumb as posts, they're born rich; they didn't earn it, and they've never had to develop problem solving skills because they've never faced adversity.
Yup, see Elon Musk
Self promotion is a lot easier with a super rich daddy opening all the doors for you from jump. Don’t forget he’s a hardcore nepo-baby.
By that, I ask what smart thing has been done?
He developed a cult of personality around himself of significant size and used it to seize one of two pillars of political power in the USA, which then propelled him to power twice. Not smart as in "good for the world," but pretty successful in the, "empowering and enriching oneself at the cost of the commons" sense.
He's not though, he hires smart people and evil people while being a cult leader. He's not test smart, but he is the president of the US and it happened twice.
https://www.project2025.observer/
That's the thing about spending 70 years lying and having someone else fire anyone that disagrees...
You start believing it all.
Same shit happened to Elon and loads of other rich people, they stop getting real feedback and understanding that they're being lied to.
The honestly believe their own bullshit, and they just don't know how to react to the truth.
We saw it with the interview about the ms13 tattoo, trump doesn't even know how to argue anymore, he's used to everyone just agreeing with him, so when they don't his only argument is "why aren't you saying what I want you to say, do you not understand what I want you to say?"
Because that's the only time they hear what they dont want to; when the person talking to them is confused about what they want to hear
That's a bingo!
Sums up the online right and the futility of debating or arguing with them in any real fashion. This is the culture of JD Vance and Andrew Tate.