You asked for an example, and it is, indeed, an example of the thing you asked for an example of.
“Hey, John, what’s this all about?” is extremely straightforwardly an example of Trump not knowing what something was about.
Speculation about alternative meanings of this question do not make this something other than an example.
It’s not proof, it’s not the incontrovertible word of God, but it is unquestionably an example.
This is a question, and for something to be inferred from it, you have to know what “this” refers to. I have clearly stated that I think it could be about the memorial he was staring at as they approached it and he asked the question. I have also said it could be about Pearl Harbor in general. The question in and of itself is not an example of anything specific.
Just so you’ll know, I’d really rather not. You don’t seem to be interested in commenting on what I say, which is of course cool, but as for me, I’ve got nothing more to add in that case.
Was it a Pearl Harbor of Great Price?
And the letters that make up the words in that question only ask that question when arranged in that order. In other orders they don’t form words at all.
It would have been more efficient that way, but eventually the world got some pieces of shit that owed their existence to GHWB…
This is all in the three links I’ve provided, which you have indicated zero interest in reading beyond the first. I wonder why.
In the appendix of the book they include a handwritten, signed, and notarized list titled Things Donald Trump Knows Nothing About by Donald Trump. It includes an entry for Pearl Harbor, but it’s possible that that’s a misspelling of Pocatello, Idaho so we may never be able to get to the bottom of this.
Going by that list, the US is one of the most corrupt countries on earth. Many of those things are so routine in this country that hardly anybody would think to raise an eyebrow.
I assure you I have read all the paragraphs that mention Pearl Harbor specifically at the links you provided, and the surrounding paragraphs. Please just tell me what I have missed. I can’t mind read. And there is no need to start down some sort of “ulterior motive” road (see bold) that people usually do whenever I mention something that doesn’t criticize Trump, or I don’t immediately accept something unflattering said about him. I just didn’t think the Yahoo link showed what is was purported to show.
Why be snide? But fine, I take you at your word. Show me what you are talking about in the book. I am always interested in listening to other points of view.
It’s pretty obvious that DJT doesn’t know much about anything so why somebody would come on the board to suggest that what he said isn’t really an indictment of his lack of knowledge is beyond me. Reminds me of a very good friend of mine - he’s very bright (he’s a mechanical engineer) but he does this thing in the face of information such as this to seemingly “detach” himself from it all so that he can look as though he’s “above the fray.” Extremely annoying to someone like me who is MUCH more willing to “call a spade a spade.”
Emphasis above mine. He may have simply been having a ‘Senior Moment’. Nothing to do about Pearl or the Arizona memorial specifically, but basically wondering where he was and what he was doing there.
From a Wednesday morning CNBC interview:
Oh, good grief. Is gonna start praising Thomas Crapper next???
Light bulbs, toilets, dishwashers, wind turbines…
Someone is threatening Edison? We have got to put a stop to that!
And could someone tell me which American invented the wheel?
Someone do a quick calculation to see if the patent protection term has expired yet for the wheel!
Too late. Disney’s got it.
The way it is phrased, he not only believes that Thomas Edison is still alive-he also believes that Edison invented the wheel.
Yeah, I can see where that might be annoying. As opposed to what I said, which was that the Yahoo link did not mention any specifics about what Trump did or did not know about Pearl Harbor, thus I wasn’t convinced of anything by that link.
Reading these links, I think what makes the moment noteworthy is that John Kelly (who presumably relayed the story) was dumbfounded by the question, clearly reflecting that he thought Trump was admitting to woeful ignorance.
And I get it. Trump’s knowledge and understanding of one of the most pivotal moments in American history (one which Kelly probably knew intimate details of) likely consisted of, at most, “the Japanese attacked America in WWII” and literally nothing else. Moreover, the dismissive “what’s this all about” in the presence of such a serene memorial probably struck Kelly as outrageous, since Kelly was well aware of the significance of the dead bodies still interred below. To Kelly, this was about paying respects; to Trump, it was about some distraction while they refueled their jet.
If nothing else, it plainly diminished Trump in the eyes of his general.
In context, Trump was talking about protecting intellectual property, and specifically Elon Musk, not Thomas Edison. So the ‘he’s one of our very smart people’ and "he’s done a very good job’ was about Elon. But, in attempting to list ‘other’ Americans who also need to have their ideas protected, the only name Trump could come up with was Edison, and in listing other ideas that need protecting, the only other inventions Trump could think of were the lightbulb and wheel.