• @SirEDCaLot
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    -17 months ago

    Step past your hatred of the guy and look for some nuance my friend.

    The person I spoke with didn’t like Trump, but admired Trump’s sharp mind and strategic brain that could out-think a lot of very smart people. Their belief was that Trump is sharp as a tack but just pretends to be an idiot so people underestimate him.

    Being the smartest guy in the room, being able to come to a negotiation and sweep the board when nobody sees it coming is never a bad quality for a President. THAT is what they respected-- the ability to do that to a bunch of very smart people.

    • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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      47 months ago

      That’s called being a narcissistic conman, and is not a sign of intelligence, only a sign of lack of empathy and morals.

      The fact he got taken in makes him an idiot.

      • @SirEDCaLot
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        17 months ago

        Well there were a table full of people saying ‘we know Trump can be slimy so we’ll protect ourselves’ and it wasn’t good enough. So I guess they’re all idiots.
        I think it’s fair to argue that if you know Trump has a reputation for screwing everybody over, the only non-idiotic move is to stay the fuck away from him. So that’s probably fair grounds for calling them idiots.

        That Trump chose to screw everybody over makes him a narcissistic conman without empathy or morals.
        The fact that he COULD do it, even to smart people who were expecting it and thought they’d prepared, is arguably a sign of intelligence.
        That he chooses to use whatever intelligence he has screwing everybody over rather than solving real problems-- that’s back to narcissistic conman without empathy or morals.

        You can be a narcissistic conman without empathy or morals, and still be smart.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      So the guy sees Trump do some underhanded stuff to screw people over and thought “that’s what I want to lead my country”