Is he really smart enough?

[drumpfsucks]

Been thinking.... Is TFG really smart enough and/or capable of coming up with ALL the wacko stuff that comes out of his cult parties and from his No-truth Social blab-fests? He reads from teleprompters and mumbles his lies.
Question is: WHO in his inside group is coming up with the ideas and directions to go at all times of the day and night? There must be some dark figures who write and feed their RNC/GOP mouthpiece.
Am I the ONLY one who thinks that the nut job just isn't smart enough to come up with all the regurgitated stuff that he spews?
Food for thought?

[Ocelot II]

1. I think he gets a lot of it from Steve Bannon.

[leftieNanner]

3. Yes

And Stephen Miller

[unblock]

8. Bannon, hannity, foxnews, newsmax, random internet posters, etc.

He's an foxnews addict and online troll who stepped into the spotlight. That's basically it.

[Rebl2]

9. And maybe

Steve Miller?

[barbtries]

2. i think it's mostly him actually.

his reality is that he is the center of the universe. he gets a smidgen of news and twists it to serve his needs. gets another smidgen and same thing and so on. also you may notice he does not address issues, he pretty much says the same thing over and over. when he really gets animated is when he's degrading his "enemies." hatred is his lifeblood.

THE SICK FUCK

[jaxexpat]

6. "Hatred ishis lifeblood ". Pretty wellsums him up.

[Ocelot II]

7. The regurgitation of grievances and accusations is all him.

The crap that passes for policy positions probably comes mostly from Bannon and Miller.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. Stephen Miller might be helping too.

[elleng]

16. A lot.

[Permanut]

5. My thoughts exactly..

He's insane, but I don't believe he's coming up with all of the production plans for things like gold shoes or "patriotic" Bibles. There is a man behind the curtain.

[Torchlight]

10. He's and his cam[paign are just stubborn, obstinat, and single-minded.

I just don't see any real strategies coming from his campaign, just the same procedures he's been using since he came to the political statge: shouting, lieing, and playing the victim when it's time for the consequences. I don't see that as really effective in a long-term career in poitics.

While others give him a place at the same table as Nixon, to me, he's just another Joe McCcarthy. Where others see genius, I see a failed carnival barker shouting his swan song to the quickly dissapearing crowd of rubes he's conned.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. The Devil's Triad: Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Roger Stone.

[RandySF]

12. It doesn't matter.

He'll let right wing interest groups pick his goons for him.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. He mangles it because he can't remember it. Person, woman, man, camera, tv.

That's about as much as he can handle.

[Bleacher Creature]

14. He gets most of his information watching huge amounts of RW cable news.

And regurgitates whatever he can retain and understand.

[RandySF]

15. "George Bush is not smart enough to harm the country."

- Ralph Nader

[Ocelot II]

19. He wasn't, but Cheney and Rumsfeld, et al. were.

You always have to worry about the stooges, asskissers and minions and especially the actual puppet-masters.

[barbtries]

22. yeah.

how'd that work out? he didn't have to be smart at all; he had dick cheney and karl rove and probably a cast of thousands. as noted above, trump has rightwing media, bannon, miller, stone, etc.

[LearnedHand]

17. He is carnival barker smart

He rally knows how to get the rubes. It's a very dark super power. I mean look how much he's the subject here on DU. That's what I mean. He sucks all the air out of every conversation, including for his enemies.

[LearnedHand]

18. And he never stopped being a trashy reality TV star

[shelshaw]

20. I say Putin

Russia knows way more about our system than any conservative asshat

[3auld6phart]

21. One

might ask, the same Question of loose Judge “ loose” Cannon. She does look that smart to me.