After listening for 10 minutes
President Donald Trump recounted an absolutely astounding detail about one of his conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping in comments published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday afternoon. Apparently, Trump came into his first meeting with the Chinese leader, in early April, convinced that China could simply eliminate the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear program. Xi then patiently explained Chinese-Korean history to Trump — who then promptly changed his mind.
“After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it’s not so easy,” the president told the Journal. “I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power [over] North Korea. … But it’s not what you would think.”
Typical, innit.
He was telling us the same thing about health insurance. “It turns out to be complicated,” he said wonderingly. Yes we know, Donnie, and since it was your idea to go after this job, you should have known too.
He finds that out about everything. People brief him and he runs around full of astonishment, telling everyone what he just learned and bragging that he’s the only person who knows it.
It’s simply staggering that the US head of state is so abjectly stupid that he feels no need to become informed about the issues he has to deal with. It’s staggering that he has no qualms about admitting that the Chinese president had to tell him some basic facts about China and North Korea – subjects he’d been babbling about on Twitter and in campaign speeches for months or years – and that those facts instantly changed his mind. It’s staggering that he doesn’t realize he should have learned those facts a long time ago.
Yeah it is. The racism and misogyny and xenophobia are distressing as hell but common enough. It’s the sheer level of utter undiluted unmitigated unadulterated stupidity that’s the real surprise.
My body temperature drops several degrees every time I remember that basically half of the populace voted for him. I can almost understand that you wouldn’t want to elect anyone much smarter than you (just think how embarrassingly inadequate that would make you feel!), but surely nobody would choose to elect someone dumber? Is Trump really the median when it comes to intelligence?
I’m trying to comprehend how someone that simple-minded — apparently, if it doesn’t fit in a tweet, it’s too complicated for him to get his head around — could run a business empire. I’m no dummy, but I’m damn sure I don’t have the right kind of smarts to run any corporation I ever worked for. The I remember that, actually, he didn’t do all that good a job on his businesses, either. Basically, he was rich enough to be able to get away with fucking up, and not winding up on welfare because of it.
Which is just as frightening. Is he going to basically believe whatever he is told with authority and confidence, and then change his mind with the next person that comes along? I’m not saying the President of China led him astray about Chinese history; I imagine he didn’t. But…what if Jared Kushner informed him the president was wrong? Would he then switch his mind again? And again still when…you see how it goes on. Actual learning and critical thinking are a lot of work; he prefers others to do the work for him.
No, not really. Only about 18% of the populace voted for him, because so many stayed home. They may not have seen that as a vote for Trump, either, since they may have been convinced Hillary was going to win. In fact, Hillary did win more votes, but our stupid system that believes there is something horrible, stupid, and awful about people who live in cities gave him the election based on a very undemocratic system.
And his approval ratings have been in the tank since before he was inaugurated. It has remained consistently low throughout his short administration.
Trump Decoder Ring:
“A lot of people don’t know” = “I just found out”
“it’s really complicated” = “I have no fucking idea how this stuff works”
“It’s all over the news” = “It’s on Fox and Breitbart”
“Even the New York Times confirmed that X did Y” = “The Times ran a story that mentioned X and, several paragraphs later, Y.”
“Some people are even saying that” = “I can’t even pretend to believe this shit, but I’ll throw it out there because it makes what I’m claiming look slightly less ridiculous by comparison.”
pretty much everything = “Why didn’t you love me, daddy?”
Why? Let me tell you the short and awful truth, Don John: Because you are such a horrible person, and because he was demented before you.
There may exist other reasons too.
Plus, Screechy pretty much decoded your entire “mind” right there.