TRUMP STOLE THE "STABLE GENIUS" TERM! And in context, it really did imply "HUMAN MORON"! [View all]

[bellmartin]

I knew I’d heard the term before!

It’s in a quote from Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, 1959.

(By the way, although I remember it, I personally didn’t care for the book. I love dogs, though, and that’s why the line stuck. It also bothers me that, if you think about it, the quote is rather insulting to dogs.)

"...a neodog is not a talking dog; he is not a dog at all, he is an artificially mutated symbiote derived from dog stock. A neo, a trained Caleb, is about six times as bright as a dog, say about as intelligent as a human moron — except that the comparison is not fair to the neo; a moron is a defective, whereas a neo is a stable genius in his own line of work."

So Trump, not being a “neo,” but rather a human, would be characterized as a “human moron” and “a defective”. That fits.