# Does POTUS Biden believe that he's the smartest in the room? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 25, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330 "2022-01-25T00:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/141 "2022-01-31T02:25:54Z")
> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > My pick is elderly forgetfulness, but if you’d like to suggest another reason such as dementia, Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV. Look at me, I can recognize a picture of a camel! Wasn’t it great that Trump scored the same as my elderly grandmother on a test to see if he should be put into a home. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/142 "2022-01-31T02:28:48Z")
I’ll just leave this here for folks to ponder: > **[Swiftboating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating)** > > The term swiftboating (also swift-boating or swift boating) is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized—and later discredited—campaign against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry. > Since the political smear campaign that the group conducted against Kerry, the term has come in... ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/143 "2022-01-31T02:29:57Z")
Firstly your title isn’t in line with your OP. Unless you consider that reporters are the second smartest people in any room (a proposition in serious doubt) considering yourself smarter than them does not make you the smartest person in the room. Additionally, I don’t consider it enormously arrogant for Biden to consider himself the smartest person in the room, in a room full of reporters. Secondly, your real beef seems to be with Biden not answering questions or calling the questions stupid. Many reporters asked “gotcha” questions of various types. One common type is a question that is designed to produce an ambiguous answer that the reporter can use to imply something that the answer did not mean. Getting shitty with reporters about this sort of carry-on probably isn’t a great look for any politician but is understandable. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/144 "2022-02-10T18:09:08Z")
There’s a pretty wide gap between ‘smartest in the room’ and ‘significantly smarter than Peter Doocy’. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/145 "2022-02-10T20:55:03Z")
Perhaps the premise needs to be inverted, such that Biden is of the opinion that Doocy is the stupidest person in the room. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/146 "2022-02-10T21:07:38Z")
Depends on where you are. If Doocy is at his offices at Fox News, that gap may be non-existent. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/147 "2022-02-12T01:51:59Z")
Nobody knows more than Trump knows about the Dunning-Krueger effect. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/148 "2022-02-12T02:25:43Z")
> [@Roger\_That](#): > > Nobody knows more than Trump knows about the Dunning-Krueger effect. Did you just misspell Dunning–Kruger? ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/149 "2022-02-12T10:13:14Z")
Yes. I am not a very good speller. See how that works? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/150 "2022-02-12T18:55:10Z")
Oh come in, man. “Stupid son of a bitch” is just locker room talk! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330.md?page=7)