Donald Trump is proving heās racist and stupid with his latest post.
In a Truth Social post Thursday morning, Donald Trump appeared to suggest, again, thatĀ presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris isnāt really Black, ramping up his identity-based attacks to the horror of those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy.
Earlier in the week, many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp,Ā worriedĀ that attacks on Harrisās race and genderāwhich seemed all but inevitable considering Trumpās history of racism and misogynyāwould pose a serious liability for the campaign. āWe hope he doesnāt act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we canāt control him,ā a source close to the campaignĀ toldĀ The Washington Post.
These hopes were quickly dashed in the course of Trumpās interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday afternoon, in which the candidateĀ claimedĀ that, for years, Vice President Kamala Harris āwas Indian all the way, and then suddenly she made a turn and she became a Black person.ā
Just how dumb is this guy?
Whatever the answer to that question is, the real answer is ādumber than that.ā
Also acceptable: not as dumb as the people who vote for him.
Dumber than that.
Heās a not really that dumb, heās a narcissist. Like, as a legitimate, detrimental mental condition.
Trump cannot backtrack and admit he is wrong, even if itās a small goof. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_DorianāAlabama_controversy
I know people like this in real life, and itās really sad, but also really annoying/grating.
To be fair, heās ALSO very dumb: https://www.truthorfiction.com/trump-was-the-dumbest-gddamn-student/
This is really reductive.
I think coverage of him before 2015 is much more enlightening. One I always point to is the Market Foolery podcasts on Trump, where (TL;DR) he tries to sell private real estate to his public company at highly inflated prices, and hyping the market to buy into this technically-not-illegal scheme.
Thing is, heās good at that kind of scheme. It worked! It wasnāt illegal, just basically selling a turd. The Motley Fool saw through it (and met him in person to discuss it, which is what the podcast is about) and made the only short of their career, but still, people drastically underestimate Trumpās ability to āsellā ideas that benefit him, to their detrement.
The guy is one of the dumbest people alive. He isnāt good at anything but fooling dumb people. He is the king of the dumb people and there are more than we thought.
Itās not reductive. Itās factual. Quit polishing a turd. Heās a moron. He canāt even fuck a porn star and pay her without being caught. Heās so dumb he canāt hide investment lies without being caught. He canāt plan to overthrow the government without documentation.
I know 5 year olds with more wit and social navigation.
Iād be interested to see your take on his prowess as a trickster as mentioned in the parent comment.
Weād be really mad at someone who designed a 3D printed nuclear bomb and used it on our families. They might be socially inept and bad at geography and have no grasp of international affairs, so kinda dumb in some ways. Theyād definitely be very evil. But when it came to nuke engineering, theyāre evil & not dumb.
I donāt worry Iām glorifying the impeached ex-president when I say āheās good at fraud.ā He has said and done many evil things, including some cunning ones. Heās dumb in some areas. Am I really polishing a turd right now by acknowledging a horrible horrible person isnāt entirely an idiot in every facet of his life, rather only most of them?
Maybe 45ās narcissism is indeed the bigger headline. Narcissistic, evil, morally an idiot, cunning at (smart at executing) certain scamsā¦ if we just say ānope bad at everything, 100% dumbā weāre underplaying how dangerous he can be, no?
In my opinion, itās because our systems are woefully inadequate to address even the dumbest of huckster schemes. Heās not some brilliant dude for pulling it off. He just has no morals, no ethics, and no shame. And heās spent a lifetime instinctively removing anyone who does from his presence.
āThere is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.ā ā Lao Tzu
Your not acknowledging his strengths, which have absolutely gotten him this far. Thatās a deadly mistake, one the Democrat part has already made far too much.
His strengths didnāt get him this far. His daddyās money did.
Heās not my adversary. Heās an asshole I would rather not exist and is the epitome of stupidity. He doesnāt have strengths. He bought fame and sucks at life. I donāt need to acknowledge him as anything other than the scum that represents more scum. And you sound like you support him more than you dislike him.
I donāt support Trump. I donāt think thereās anything that could happen that would make me vote Trump instead of literally any Democratic candidate. Even that aside, I really hate narcissists.
But youāre living in a bubble if you donāt want to acknowledge how he got this far, and you lash out any one that tries to break it. Way too much of the Democrat party does. Itās how they lost, and could lose again.
Saying heās dumb as hell isnāt saying heās not a clear and present danger to democracy. Itās just saying heās dumb as hell. A person can be dumb and dangerous at the same time.
Iām not living in anything. You donāt get it. Iām not a public figure. Iām just some person on the Internet. There is no need for me to see any good in a person. And he is that person.
Tbf, after having dealt with narcissist in my own life, Iāve realized you dont really have to be smart to be good at manipulation, being shameless and willing to lie through your teeth does a pretty good job with people who dont want to get dragged into things, which is most people, the lies dont have to be particularly well thought out. So while Trump has done pretty well for himself as a conman, it doesnt really prove he has any type of intelligence.
Another commenter pointed out that heās so fucking stupid he stared directly at the sun when an eclipse happened. Yeah heās not very smart.
And most likely someone else came up with that scheme.
I donāt think so. Itās classic Trump and fits his long pattern of behavior, of not quite lying in the technical sense while selling some kind of snake oil.
Couldnāt be a pattern of the people he hires and ethics heās happy to not have? This isnāt evidence that heās smart
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But also dumb
His VP pick has children who are both white and Indian, but he still canāt comprehend Harris can be black and Indian.
To be fair, Trump and most of the MAGA base probably donāt view the Vance kids as white at all.
The half-assed way Vance ādefendedā his wife to his party was sickening.
I missed this, was it from the convention? Is there a particular quote?
ā JD Vance
āI know sheās not white, but I love her anyway. And I know thatās a personal failing of mine, and I apologize for itā
Donāt want to offend the white supremacistsā¦ they need those votes!
Conservatives are all about traditionā¦
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
Heās ālook directly at the sun during an eclipse without eye protectionā dumb. Plus heās old, sleepy, and a felon.
More predictable than dumb, in that in any given situation the man will pick the absolutely worst choice available. Every single time. Even when that choice hurts him.
When his options are (a) pick the right choice, (b) pick a bad choice, ( c) do nothing, or (d) pick something you didnāt even fathom because the idea was just so bad that even the biggest moron would dismiss it out of hand, he will go with D. Every single time. Even if it hurts himself. Thankfully, the man canāt get out of his own way 95% of the time, and I firmly believe that making even something resembling a rational choice even on the most basic of options would cause him physical pain.
Profoundly dumb. But also super weird. And he hates being called weird.
Weird, Old, Loser, Fatā¦the alpha W.O.L.F.
Wildly overweight limp fuck?
Itās just a weird thing to say and a weird stance to double-down on.
Heās starting a rhetoric. He gaslights and soon thereāll be a bunch of Americans caught up in her origins and misleading representation of race. And youāll wonder, āHow the fuck did that actually stick?ā
Will there? Maybe the racist ones who would never be voting for her anyway. Good, let them waste their time with it.
Yep, itās just the new talking point from their supreme leader. It was āSleepy Bidenā before, now itās āopportunistic race swapping Harrisā (he is better with stupid names so he might come up with something more catchy, but that is the general direction).
They will gobble it up like all the shit they parrot all the time.
I had a realisation. Might be true; probably isnāt. But I have the feeling Trump read The Art of War.
Many of his actions seem to come straight from that book, but from a person that didnāt comprehend it appropriately.
How dumb is there?
All of itā¦just all the dumb
Dude literally doesnāt understand that people come from two parents
Not dumb, in the sense that he knows 70% of his base doesnāt give two shits about anything, and 10% want to see vulgar stuff because itās entertaining.
This is the guy who has mocked developmentally disabled people on national TV more than once, prior to winning the 2016 election, and Iām basing his reasoning after that. His fanbase is beholden to his callous asshattery
No, heās legitimately dumb. He knows how to play a crowd, and covers it up a bit by rambling unlike Biden, but heās been observably senile since like 2018, look at how disconnected his speech gets when he goes off script and starts a thought off with something he half-remembered from the news, something grandma would send you on FB, and ends it with something that hasnāt been accurate since the 80s.
If you watch his CPAC speeches and stuff, itās almost like thereās a conspiracy of silence around showing how bad it is. You just get wacky stories that arenāt too believable from dem-alligned media, and āeverythingās fine, the 79 year old is the most stable genius everā from conservative media.
The recent interview with the black journalists association missed the perfect opportunity to ask him to draw a clock.
Heās dumb, but about as dumb as a rat that figured out how to reach the cheese in the maze. Heās kind of bumbling around and took an unintentionally Socratic approach towards reaching what he wanted. Thereās some rationality to all of it
If they already like him, sure. He lost the ability to be entertaining to anyone else a long time ago.
This is what we call an ān+1ā problem, as far as I can tell
If you know you might lose a fair fight, but you also know it doesnāt matter if you can leverage mob violence, you stoke the flames.
He has to be careful with that or his supporters might not be energized to vote.
Oh how the turntables