Is Trump the "Supidest Person" ever to become President of the United States?

[Stuart G]

Or is it most ignorant?..or both?..

He said this today, "Trump threatens military action if Mexico doesn't stop immigration 'onslaught'

How stupid is this?...

[Gothmog]

1. Yes to both

[oberliner]

36. Do you remember George W Bush?

[PJMcK]

53. I certainly remember W

Yet this Trump-thing is a whole different level of stupid.

[keithbvadu2]

87. Dubya is thankful to be in second place now.

Dubya is thankful to be in second place now.

[kimbutgar]

2. Yes and also evil pos.

[Stuart G]

4. Yes, ..."evil pos" I thought Bush Jr. was evil....in ways he was...but taking kids from

parents, for the crime of wanting to come to the U.S.A..is truly ...evil

[Turbineguy]

3. Quite possibly so.

Certainly the most unsuited.

[Stuart G]

5. Yes...evil, and ..."unsuited." No idea of what this job is...none, nada..zero..totally "unsuited"

Great description..thank you for your opinion..

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Thinks it's all about him. Remaking the presidency to suit his tRUMP view. Clueless and arrogant is

no way to go through life, dotard.

[CatMor]

6. Yes and yes ....

don't know how anyone would consider him anything but stupid.

[onecaliberal]

7. Absolutely, no question. Hands down.

[oberliner]

40. George W Bush isn't in the running for you?

[ProfessorGAC]

47. No, He's Not

He was not a particularly bright guy, and he was extremely incurious. But, his lack of knowledge was not based upon being incapable of understanding, but on a willful disregard of it.

I do not believe this buffoon is capable of learning anything more complex than the pricing of a piece of real estate.

[LibDemAlways]

62. He is for me. Cheney ran that show, though.

Bush was just the useful stooge - the genial front man for the evil cabal. Trump has the vocabulary of a 3rd grader, the attention span of a gnat, no curiosity, no critical thinking skills, and the temperament of a spoiled attention-seeking toddler. It's a close call, though. Both are dumbasses. Bush more in a frat boy towel snapping way; Trump in a runaway ego with delusions of grandeur way. Didn't think we'd ever sink lower than Bush. Trump is definite proof that Repukes like their Presidents to be stupid, just like them.

[oberliner]

64. People should watch some old clips of him being interviewed

Some seem to have forgotten.

[John Fante]

65. The Trump apologist returns!

GWB isn't remotely as stupid and clueless as Trump, give me a fucking break.

[oberliner]

70. Trump apologist?

Huh?

[John Fante]

72. You're not fooling anyone.

[oberliner]

75. What the heck are you talking about?

I've been an active member of DU since 2006.

Do you not remember the Bush presidency at all?

[John Fante]

77. You're trying to deflect from Trump's stupidity by bringing up Bush. Over and over.

Spare me.

Everyone here was alive for Bush's presidency. Trump is dumber. It's not even close.

[oberliner]

79. I won't soon forget the awfulness of Bush

Trump is also awful - but Bush was worse in my view. Primarily due to his invasion of Iraq which led to tens (hundreds?) of thousands of needless deaths. And for nothing. Because "God told him to" and because Saddam made his father look bad.

[John Fante]

82. You could argue that Bush was worse (for now), but there's really no argument

that he's dumber than Trump. None.

[mucifer]

8. I think him and andrew johnson are neck in neck with the stupid and the evil

[Stuart G]

9. Andrew really wasn't the brightest bulb.. maybe an 8 watt. Trump a 6 watt........

Here is the real problem,,,Trump the 6 watt bulb, thinks he is a 1500 watt bulb..and that thought actually lowers

him down to a 3 watt bulb.. Now, I have never seen a 3 watt bulb..but I imagine it is pretty dim..

[jmowreader]

84. You have seen one, but don't realize it

The light bulb in your car's glove box is a 3 watt bulb.

[flying rabbit]

88. Wow, that takes stalking to a new level

Jk

[Jrsygrl96]

10. No.

Diabolic. Satanic. Evil. Wicked. Ungodly. Devilish. Infernal. Fiendish.

ANTICHRIST! But not stupid. That belongs to 43.

[oberliner]

39. The massive stupidity of #43 was off the charts

And he had God telling him to do things on top of everything else.

[shanny]

11. He's #1 in both categories. By a mile.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. He definitely doesn't know what he doesn't know.

[Generic Brad]

13. Andrew Jackson may have rivaled him

And we survived him somehow.

[roamer65]

23. Jackson didn't have nuclear weapons.

[Docreed2003]

51. Jackson was neither stupid or ignorant.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. And the most dangerous. nt

[demosincebirth]

15. Hands down!

[oberliner]

38. What about Bush?

[demosincebirth]

59. Bush may have invaded the wrong country, but he was not

An ignoramous, lier, racist, and just a plain old evil man

[oberliner]

60. He was definitely an ignoramus

[demosincebirth]

90. Ignoramuses don't become pilots in the NG.

[Garrett78]

16. I hesitate to say he's stupid. He's anti-intellectual and incredibly ignorant.

But he manipulates his base and the media in a way that's pretty masterful.

[tblue37]

28. Cunning, but not smart.

[Gothmog]

17. why Trump supporters can't see he's an idiot --

Link to tweet

[Cha]

19. Because they are and they see someone just as Evil

and he got rigged in the wh by the Russians and their enablers. Ain't life grand.

[ecstatic]

31. Interesting and kind of weird.

trump has been exposed as a liar numerous times. I don't see confidence, I see a con artist (carnival barker). My conclusion is that his true believers suffer from 1 or more mental illnesses--the deplorable wing is comprised of sociopaths and the Kanye West wing is comprised of decent people who have succumbed to serious mood disorders. BTW, I'm not disparaging mental illness--I've suffered from anxiety and depression at various points in my life as well.

[Cha]

18. Way past STUPID.. EVIL VILE FUCKHEAD NOT FIT

to SERVE.

[Demonaut]

20. I don't know what "Supidest" is but.....not sure??!

[Alhena]

21. He's just a way station to President Mountain Dew Camacho - video

[Stuart G]

25. Now..Now...many do not know...this is from a film, "Idiocracy"...now, now...

now...if you haven't seen ..."Idiocracy"...you need to see it...as soon as possible..
..................................like yesterday....................no..I wont tell you about it...but it is great...and you will enjoy it a whole lot...............

[oberliner]

37. I always thought it was "weigh station"

[dpibel]

52. Different thing

way sta·tion
/ˈwā ˌstāSHən/
noun North American
noun: way station; plural noun: way stations; noun: waystation; plural noun: waystations

a stopping point on a journey.
a minor station on a railroad.

[oberliner]

54. Thanks

Learn something new every day!

[jmowreader]

85. Not sure if I really like that comparison

President Camacho was able to make a course correction when he realized he was wrong; when Frito, Rita and the cameraman were able to get photos of the crops up on the Jumbotron, President Camacho halted the Rehabilitation, pardoned Joe and promoted him to vice president. Trump would have had Rita and Frito executed by bone saw for daring to interfere with an executive decision.

The essence of President Camacho is he was a good but uneducated man who innately knew how to motivate people. Watch the video you posted again: at the beginning of his address, the House of Representin' was ready to tear him from limb to limb; at the end of it, they would have walked through fire for him. The way he did things wouldn't have gone over well in 21st Century America, but it was very effective in the 26th Century.

The essence of Donald Trump is he's a man who's had every advantage in life and squandered them all in the pursuit of personal aggrandizement and wealth.

[davekriss]

22. Yes, at least in my long lifetime

Stupid, immoral, slob.

[oberliner]

35. Were you alive for George W Bush?

[davekriss]

50. I was alive for JFK

[roamer65]

24. Hands down the worst.

Will probably be the last president of the former United States.

[tblue37]

26. Both. Also the stupidest and most ignorant person to do almost anything else. He makes W and Palin

sound almost--nah, never mind.

[ProudLib72]

27. He be even more stupider then Dan Quayle

He isn't going to "bone up on his Latin prior to visiting Latin America". No, he's going to bone up on his Bullyish before his next rally.

[Stuart G]

29. ........."Stupider than Dan Quayle".........................how does one top that?..

.........................how many here even know who Dan Quayle.... is/was??????

[ProudLib72]

30. BrainyQuote has quite a few of his more absurd sayings

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/dan_quayle

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?



You cannot make this shit up. Well, you can, but then you would appear to be stupid!

[raccoon]

42. Dan Quayle might not of been the brightest bulb in the box,

Dan Quayle might not of been the brightest bulb in the box,But he wasn’t a vicious hateful racist.

[duforsure]

33. He's by far the most corrupt

And lies more than any other president has, but he's really illegitimate so he won't count when its all over.

[oberliner]

34. Bush invaded Iraq because "God told him to"

[John Fante]

66. Keep reaching.

[oberliner]

69. Were you alive for George W Bush?

[John Fante]

74. Of course I was, WTF? He was a dimwit too, but miles smarter than Trump. Not even close.

GWB was a governor before becoming POTUS. Trump might not know how to spell "governor".

I would bet good money that GWB at least knows how a bill becomes law. Trump? I would bet against him knowing.

[oberliner]

78. Sarah Palin was governor also

[John Fante]

80. Glad you brought her up. She's smarter than Trump too.

And she's a gigantic idiot, so I'm not complimenting her at all. Trump is just that fucking dumb.

Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist  and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, 
OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart 
—you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, 
like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the 
smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're a 
conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that's 
why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went 
there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my 
like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but 
you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would 
have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear 
is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the 
power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of 
what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), 
but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it 
used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I 
would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, 
you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter 
right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about 
another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians  are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

[oberliner]

81. They are all dumb

Maybe I am biased because the awfulness of the Bush presidency took a very specific and personal toll on me, but as far as I am concerned, he is still the stupidest and the worst of the presidents in my lifetime. If Trump lies us into a major war, then he may take over the crown, but as of now, it still goes to Bush in my view.

[raccoon]

41. Undoubtedly. Nt

[malaise]

43. By a distance

And the most corrupt

[dustyscamp]

44. Someone who can easily manipulate millions of people into believing and behaving in a certain way

isn't stupid.

[CK_John]

45. DT45 is any thing but stupid, an Idiot savant.

[RobinA]

49. I Disagree

The man is dumb. Throughout his life he's hit on a few things that worked in his milieu and he just repeats them over and over. Reading the NYT investigation on his "rise" and the family's financial shenanigans, you see he learned quite young many of the tricks he employs in some form still. Like hinting that you are going to do something you have no intention of doing to try to manipulate people into doing what you want them to do. Apparently, he used to hint that he was going to dump a large amount of stock in order to manipulate stock prices. He never did dump the stock and didn't seem to have any real intention of doing so. He does a form of this almost weekly today. "I could [do something heinous] to [whoever] if they don't [do whatever I want]. We'll see." US Presidents don't throw their weight around like this, it's completely irresponsible and not something true leaders do. Does it work for him? Not really. Shooting someone on Fifth Ave. and getting away with it does not mean you are successful, smart, or a good President.

[JHB]

46. In absolute terms, tough to say. But once you factor in...

...how aggressively he applies himself to those qualities, yeah, he takes top spot.

And all the other contenders styled themselves as conservatives as reckoned by the standards of their day.

[RobinA]

48. In Order

to be completely fair, I am going to go with We don't really know. Must successful people who actually are stupid make it a big point not only not to flaunt their stupidity, but to keep it as quiet as possible, often employing other people to help sharpen the image. Trump, on the other hand, blares his stupidity all over the world every day. He makes no attempt to keep it on the down low or to get people to help him look like has a clue. So is it possible that there has been a stupider President? Possible. But I guess you have to figure if the other possible stupid Presidents were at least smart enough, or willing enough to listen to advice, to make an effort to look like they had a working brain, they were at least smarter than Trump, who obviously is not.

So yes, Trump is the stupidest President. See, I tried to be fair and balanced, but the conclusion was the same.

[Initech]

55. This is what happens when you let a tabloid trash TV network do all your thinking for you.

[OAITW r.2.0]

56. Says everything you need to know about Trump voters.

Only idiots would vote for this spectacular clown.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

57. Trick Question

"Person" indicates that he's human, and I've seen no evidence of that.

[Kajun Gal]

58. Yes.

[Polybius]

61. Nope, that award goes to W.

I'd love to see their college grades compared. Anyone up to posting them?

[smirkymonkey]

63. Yes. By far. He has the cunning of a NYC Sewer Rat, but he is not intelligent.

The problem is that he is a very stupid, ignorant man who is under the delusion that he is brilliant. Other presidents may not have been very bright, but they at least had enough intelligence to know their shortcomings and to surround themselves with wiser people and take their advice.

He is a very stupid man. Anyone can tell that by listening to him. It is obvious.

[Rhiannon12866]

68. Well said. That, and he has absolutely no concern or regard for other people, including children.

The chief job of a POTUS is to defend the Constitution and to make life better for the American people. He has no knowledge of history or the laws of the land and no regard for anyone else anywhere, including his fellow Americans. It's all about him and what he can get out of this to benefit himself. Those who don't share that vision, especially Democrats, are his enemies. And that is scary as hell.

[John Fante]

67. Trump could very well be the dumbest major politician in US history.

Just read this shit:

“I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.”

[Turin_C3PO]

71. Most ignorant for sure.

I don’t think he’s smart but he is a master manipulator so I hesitate to call him stupid.

[Cha]

73. Imo, Yes.. and the most Vile Evil Sociopathic

Lying Asshole in this century. Not fit to serve.

[guillaumeb]

76. Ronald Reagan was easily as stupid as Trump.

And as racist.

[Buns_of_Fire]

83. Sure -- until the NEXT pile of offal the republicans choose to inflict on the country.

Many (I was one) thought that Dubya was the absolute bottom of the republican barrel.

But what we failed to realize at the time is that the republican barrel HAS NO BOTTOM!!!

[doc03]

86. I wonder if he would notice your spelling of "Stupidest"

[dalton99a]

89. Trump is irredeemably stupid, colossally ignorant, and profoundly evil.

[Raine]

91. Don't underestimate him

he's sly and cunning.