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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumslet's face it, we have one of the dumbest fucking 'presidents' this nation has ever elected.
Cnn calls it wacky, i call it sad, embarrassing and deplorable.
Trump's wacky history lessons continue
In the latest strange aside, Trump said that Andrew Jackson, the populist rabble-rousing President with whom he has begun to claim political kinship, had strong thoughts about the Civil War -- even though he died 16 years before the conflict broke out.
"He was really angry that -- he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War," Trump said in an interview with Salena Zito, a Washington Examiner reporter and CNN contributor, on Sirius XM radio. "He said, 'There's no reason for this.' "
Trump's comment makes little sense because Jackson died in 1845 and therefore could have had limited knowledge about events leading up to the conflagration pitting his native South against Northern states.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-us-history/index.html
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)nothing at all about our history, Bannon told him a couple tidbits about Jackson and a date, then he made up the rest, obviously.
The disgrace isnt this child in the WH, the disgrace are the sixty million Americans who love that he is there.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)The greediest, among the nation with the most natural resources, are never satisfied. When they fail in business, they use government to exert power over others to get what they want.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)pathological Trump and his henchmen. And millions are brainwashed to be loyal followers lapping up the falsehoods and propaganda.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)"you don't have to be smart to succeed. Look at the President"
llmart
(15,539 posts)He bragged about his awful grades saying "You too can be President" to some kids.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the politicians who are trying to make him seem "normal" The msm who make excuses, and explain what he REALLY meant. The man is borderline dementia, it seems so obvious, why try to cover it up? The gop got away with covering for Saint Ronnie, we can not let them do it again. He should resign, go to Mar-A-Lago golf and enjoy what lucid time he has left. I do not think there will be a whole lot of THAT.
kentuck
(111,095 posts)But I was wrong.
Useless in FL
(329 posts)I thought we had hit rock bottom with the Chimp! Surprise, surprise...once again I'm proven wrong.
Lucky Luciano
(11,256 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)But Trump is worse in so many ways.
hunter
(38,312 posts)The very worst qualities of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Warren G. Harding, and Andrew Jackson, all wrapped up in a single package.
Dubya is happy, no longer among our most reviled.
It's unfuckingbelievable
Volaris
(10,271 posts)I still hate that little fucker. If he had been impeached, Trump would have NEVER had the base of support that he did. I understand why 'looking forward' was done, but that doesnt mean I agree with it. At some point, we're going to have to have the personal and political stones to start calling a spade a spade, and a treasonous criminal asshole a treasonous criminal asshole, and start putting people in prison.
Or the Republican bullies who think running this nation is their Divine Right are just going to keep on believin their own bullshit.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)find out there is someone lower than Trump a few years from now? Unimaginable now that anyone could go lower than Trump, but I would have said the same about W!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)orangecrush
(19,555 posts)I am flabbergasted.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)so every idiotic statement they've made was done while they were stone cold sober.
Trump: Hold my beer and watch this.
W: Wait, this isn't beer.
rivegauche
(601 posts)I NEVER, EVER EVER EVER thought a day would come when I would appreciate that dumbass, but lo and behold. You think you've seen stupid, and then... Cheeto. His idiocy is shocking and sickening. I wish I could find it funny but I have never liked stupidity in public officials, it makes me angry.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)At least Dubya knew he wasn't the smartest guy in the room... he'd even joke about it sometimes.
Trump thinks he's really smart - smarter than the generals and knew more about ISIS than them a year ago.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Trump isn't "one of the dumbest," as you wrote.
He is the dumbest.
Plus, he's an idiot.
spanone
(135,832 posts)since i've only observed presidents since Eisenhower i thought i'd.. .....hell, you're RIGHT!
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Hey, spanone. We're both boomers from the 'fifties. Here's a fun fact that makes my (younger) girlfriend crack up: When you and I were born, there were only 48 stars on the flag! How old does that make you feel?!
PS- my smart ass son likes to say that when I was born there were only 13 stars on the flag!
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)If so, I think you're still qualified to run for president! It was an American territory, after all.
As if...
spanone
(135,832 posts)wouldn't trade those time for any other!!!!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)ck4829
(35,076 posts)Francisco Franco was frequently swindled out of Spain's money by scammers - and if I remember about 200,000 people died of starvation due to his poor management policies (The years of hunger). All before technocrats took over the economic policy.
http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/11/19/franconomics-worse-than-frankenomics-greekenomics-and-freakenomics-combined/
spanone
(135,832 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)thank you for that memory.....I remember laffing myself silly the first time I heard "news for the hard of hearing".
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)that's the source of his power.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Sorry, Wounded Bear, but you wrote, "... the media and the weak-minded..."
Need I say more?
CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Not even one. That is pretty amazing. Even Hitler loved dogs and could paint (not well, but he had a tiny bit of talent). Trump has nothing going for him. Everything he has accomplished in life has only been because he could be the biggest asshole in the room and get away with it. That's all he's got.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)he does exhale carbon dioxide and that's beneficial to plants. Someone should tell him that and then see how long he holds his breath.
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)it's not an act.
malaise
(268,998 posts)Nailed it
MFM008
(19,808 posts)This is something he wins hands down.
spanone
(135,832 posts)1000%
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Telling, that the two indisputably dumbest pResidents are separated by eight years and one man?
Volaris
(10,271 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)fucking idiot doesn't quite describe him
spanone
(135,832 posts)i think he's losing it. he doesn't know a dictator from a idaho tater.....
he'd be honored to meet with kim jung un????
he invites duterte to the white house???
this guy has lost whatever mind he had!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)his way. He must be a real joy to have around constantly and in your face despite being the dumbest guy in the room no matter where he goes.
bora13
(860 posts)he says all these things to impress his followers and make liberal heads spin.
cuz he haz all the best words.
spanone
(135,832 posts)video....scroll down....he's as crazy as they comes
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-trump-angrily-walks-away-from-interview-after-reporter-presses-for-obama-wiretapping-evidence/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)...who say THE dumbest. He is completely inept. And so is everyone of his cabinet picks.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)We did NOT elect that scum
He never would have made it in without engaging in conspiratorial shenanigans
There is no way the electorate who voted Obama in - twice - is the same who "voted in" this troglodyte
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)He didn't end up BLOTUS due to any proper process.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)they bought the con.
he won the electoral college.
nancy1942
(635 posts)A total fool.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)He chooses not to be bothered with learning. I can understand that a bit at his age and declining mental capacity...but evidently this is how he has lived since birth? He has no curiosity nor integrity and goes by what gives him an adrenaline rush. As long as he is happy, then he is doing things correctly in his mind.
erinlough
(2,176 posts)Last edited Tue May 2, 2017, 12:25 AM - Edit history (1)
Told me he was quitting shortly after a new superintendent was hired. He was a great Principal and I was trying to convince him to stay. He told me he just couldn't work for stupid. The Superintendent, who was eventually let go, was the singular dumbest person in that position I ever experienced.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)Trump's appearance on Face the Nation, where he smirked, "I call it "Deface the Nation", with an attitude that expected peals of laughter from his host. He didn't get it. He never gets it. And now he's channeling some pimply seventh grader's pathetic attempt at humor, with the lowest form: puns. Well I guess if the shoe fits. We have a seventh grade president.
Enjoy.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)I also thought the same about Shit-fer-Brains I.
So now we have Shit-fer-Brains II (the Sequel). Can it get any worse?
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -- William Butler Yeats
(I'm at my cheeriest on a Monday.)
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)"Second Coming"
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)to get him into an ivy league college like Jared Kushner dad to get him into Harvard?
Nay
(12,051 posts)dumb rich kids got accepted to the U, daddy gave plenty of $$$ (usually for sports bullshit), and Dipshit Junior 'earned' "gentleman's Cs" for the whole time he was enrolled. Note I didn't say "attended." They often did not make it to class -- they'd come in once in a while and tried to buy class notes from some of us poor kids who got into U with actual good grades.Some even bought tests. It was an eye-opener.
I still have conservative acquaintances who truly believe that every rich kid got his degree by working HARD. That's why he has money, he works HARD. Right.
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)His sheer stupidity would warrant an automatic disqualification from holding public office in most western democracies. However, his ignorance is viewed as an asset within the Republican Party and by the deplorables who are too fucking dumb to know any better.
TEB
(12,842 posts)orangecrush
(19,555 posts)ANY country has ever elected!
Oh wait - this asshole WASN'T elected.
The election was hacked.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)STFU Donny is the product of a very high dollar, private education upbringing. I'm sure Betsy can help him out on this. She's the Secretary of Education so you know she's gotta be real smart?
Every time he opens his pie hole, a river of stupid flows out.
hurple
(1,306 posts)No... THE
Initech
(100,076 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Will have to go down in history as the Worst American President ever. I seriously want the polls to go down until its .03 people love him and like what he is doing to the country. (Yeah they are all idiots!)
大統領はばかげたばかだ。
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)His vocabulary is really, really, bad. I would expect someone who attended Fordham University and the Wharton School to have a bigly vocabulary, and really, really know things that your average American would know - being President is a difficult job - much more difficult than running a business. Passing any sort of national health care plan isn't something you can whip up over drinks at Mar-a-lago, even if they have really, really good chocolate cake.
It's also fascinating to watch him try to go through the motions of being President, and give us clear vision of the manipulations that are commonly done for the President. Why all the talk about Andrew Jackson? We are supposed to see him as a modern Jackson, and he knows nothing about him, or anyone else. He talked about Frederick Douglass to punch his "I'm not a racist" card, and fucked that up too by not knowing that the man was dead. Trump's a rich kid who never had to do anything, because his father and his inheritance shielded him from reality. So sad... except for the bigly fun my family has talking like him.
doc03
(35,337 posts)RainCaster
(10,874 posts)Trumps mouth is a holster for Putin's dick.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)I mean, imagine how embarrassed we'd be as a country if we had elected her instead after THAT "debacle"?
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Had he not been born to great wealth, his laziness might not have been such a complete impediment to his every learning any goddamned thing.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)... I've forgotten about history. Same w most people. No biggie. But I sure as hell am going to RESEARCH THE DETAILS before I start using history as an analogy or explanation for anything.
Reason why?
Because a failure to do so means you are a complete f*^king moron who should not be allowed out in public.
This isn't even a Presidential thing.
This is a "should you be allowed to speak in public" thing.
Moron.
No wonder he picked DeVos.
rivegauche
(601 posts)that his cabinet picks were all idiots*, deliberately, because Cheeto thinks that he's smarter than they are so they won't show him up.
This is the new reality - a terrifying race to the bottom.
* the exception is Mattis, Sec Def. He is definitely not an idiot and I hope to FSM that he can get through to Cheeto.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)He's the Great Flood. The Black Plague. World War Trump. He's the Death Comet of Stupid.
There'll be SO many books. If, you know, we make it.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)us had NOTHING to do with the accession of this POS to the WH.
He is an absolute travesty - not only of what a US President should be, but of what a human being should be.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Yavin4
(35,438 posts)8 years.
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)W also had prior government experience as Texas governor
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)I think he's the stupidest fucking idiot to EVER occupy the WH. In fact, had I been charged with finding a person more noxious, unbearable, and woefully unfit for office, I don't know that I could have surpassed this complete and utter goddamned MORON.