# Trump -- (lack of) intelligence/personality (disorders) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 14, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-lack-of-intelligence-personality-disorders/991569 "2023-10-14T15:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-lack-of-intelligence-personality-disorders/991569/2 "2023-10-13T23:26:39Z")
> [@FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence (August 8, 2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022/969329/7522): > > > [@FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence (August 8, 2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022/969329/7519): > > > > The idea that those notes detail planning for the Jan 6 debacle, planning to overturn the election results, or other incriminating plans would explain why he would not return them and has fought so hard to claim they are his. > > This seems unnecessarily speculative to me. First, as a mob boss, he knows never to put criminal plans in writing. Second, in the unlikely event he broke that rule, those papers would have gone into Mark Meadows’s fireplace. > > Occam’s Razor is sufficient to explain his retention, in my mind. (“They’re mine, they make me feel important, you can’t tell me what to do.”) IMHO, Trump is a lot smarter than you give him credit for. Never underestimate the intelligence of your opponent. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-lack-of-intelligence-personality-disorders/991569)._