The reason Trump talks like a child when explaining policy to press:

[skip fox]

This might seem like a minor observation but I think it affords a valuable insight into Trump's process of thought and decision.

"You can't drive there. Puerto Rico is in the ocean. A big ocean. It's called the Atlantic."

That's a paraphrase, but it corresponds to the text of many of Trump's explanations to the camera whether the issue is health care or tax overhaul or even many smaller issues of even moderate complexity.

The reason Trump talks like a child when explaining policy is because that's how his advisors have to explain it to him.

That tells us something very important about his relationship to aides and advisors as well as about their assessment of him.

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1. Safe to say Red Don is the dumbest president in US history!! Even Palin was an Alaska politico but

... outside of Alaska politics she was lost.

Red Don doesn't know shit about anything other than how to grift and swindle people out of money

[happy feet]

2. Good insight

I never thought of that, but fear you're absolutely right!
Sad.

[rock]

3. That's exactly what I thought all along

Trump thinks like an eleven-year-old child. I've never heard him make a grown-up statement.