The Trump Conundrum

[grantcart]

co·nun·drum
kəˈnəndrəm

noun
a confusing and difficult problem or question.
"one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts"

a question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle.
synonyms: riddle, puzzle, word game; informalbrainteaser

Is he a intelligent but not very well educated person who has a basic evil intent and is clever at hitting the hot button of the vile?

or

Is he an idiot with less brains than God gave a grapefruit?


And no "both" is not an acceptable answer.


I have several friends who play this game on a daily basis and we have been asking this question for the past two years. It isn't as easy as it looks, the analysis can run very deep and it is not at all unusual for people playing the "Trump Conundrum Game" to switch from the former to the latter on a daily basis, if not several times during the day.

I normally tend to the former answer. Today has pushed me into the "less brains than God gave a grapefruit" camp and I may never leave it.

The "I would have run in without a gun" statement has no real upside to it, he is reminding everyone of a problem that he has no solution to it. Even if you are a Trumpster and believe that nonsense to be true you still don't have an answer because he isn't going to spend time outside schools so even his base isn't going to feel good about it. It shows how really out of touch and delusional he is, the guy who nearly fainted at the site of blood running into a violent lethal situation with only his vulgarity to defend him.

That is not the critical factor in deciding the "evil vs. idiocy" question however. He didn't shout it in front gym filled with of his normal sycophantic beer guzzling "Friends of Fox" flat earthers, he said it in front of a gathering of the country's governors, none of whom were likely to accept any part of what he was saying as tethered to a rational point in the universe.

He is not only delusional with fantasies of grandeur, he can't focus on what room he is in.

Today we are back at the "less brains than large citric fruit" camp and may never leave it.

[Squinch]

1. He is a savant. He has no native intelligence, and is entirely ruled by his brain stem

but he does have a freakish ability to garner attention, and to manipulate the information that circulates about him.

[onecaliberal]

2. Hes a brainless pos.

[FarCenter]

3. Real estate salesman - what you see is what he wants you to see

He's good at selling "brand" and "image" and making sure he stays on top in the news cycle.

[Girard442]

4. Think of it as evolution in action.

The bacterium whose mutation has given it resistance to some antibiotic did not cleverly decide to mutate like that -- it's just the beneficiary of (for it anyway) a happy accident.

Trump has always been Trump. He didn't make a clever decision to be that way, he just is. Unfortunately for us, what he is happens to mesh perfectly with the pathologies that have developed in our society. If our society was less effed up, he'd be in a nice residential care facility somewhere, getting help.

[grantcart]

5. Interesting, very interesting

What makes this so interesting is that the same effed up host also produced President Obama.

Being completely unskilled in science I ended up closer to Hegel's Dialectic Theory of history.

Except in this case it could be non-linear.

In either example it could result in a massive infection or war or the body politic comes in and cleans up all of the bad bacteria/Republicans.

If only you could immunize against it (oh yeah right, education).