# Trump Really is Stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 8, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266 "2020-06-08T20:27:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/21 "2020-06-09T22:06:48Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > [History will judge the complicit](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/) > Is an article in The Atlantic. Don’t know if it’s paywalled and it is quite long, but well worth the read. I had already read that and added the link to my collection. It is a great piece. Glad you posted it also. There’s another must-read in the [New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/how-greenwich-republicans-learned-to-love-trump) that outlines the history of the Prescott Bush Republicans to their current Trump-supporting ultra-wealthy me-me-me Republican movement. Eye opening for any who don’t quite understand how this phenomenon took hold. It’s been a long time coming, and it comports with my own recollections over the past 50-ish years. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/22 "2020-06-09T22:21:05Z")
**Trump Really is Stupid** Understatement Level: British ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/23 "2020-06-09T23:11:22Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I had already read that and added the link to my collection. It is a great piece. Glad you posted it also. > > There’s another must-read in the [New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/how-greenwich-republicans-learned-to-love-trump) that outlines the history of the Prescott Bush Republicans to their current Trump-supporting ultra-wealthy me-me-me Republican movement. Eye opening for any who don’t quite understand how this phenomenon took hold. It’s been a long time coming, and it comports with my own recollections over the past 50-ish years. Wow. That was depressing. And very true. Between the New Yorker piece and The Atlantic piece I feel dirty and demoralized. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/24 "2020-06-09T23:31:02Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:6, topic:855266”] At least we have Sarah Cooper to illustrate his abject stupidity using not only his own words, but his own voicing of those words. She’s my new favorite, apologies to Randy Rainbow. [/QUOTE] Oh, sure, anybody can make Trump look dumb by recording him and playing back the things he says. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/25 "2020-06-10T04:13:18Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Well, as this is now in the Pit, I will say that when I started a webpage for my drawings, . . . Strange & interesting & kewl pictures you got on [that site there](https://schumanchu.eu/). 😃 I see shades of Jim Carrey, John Backderf, Robert Crumb, and Basil Wolverton there. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/26 "2020-06-10T05:22:37Z")
Dumb as a bag of left-handed hammers. Yet he single-handedly defeated both the Republican and Democrat establishments and won the Presidency. Hmmmm. What does that say about the rest of the Washington establishment? ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/27 "2020-06-10T05:26:49Z")
Telling the media that Trump is an idiot is never going to accomplish anything. Whatsoever. These guys needed to tell Trump HIMSELF, to his fucking FACE, that he’s an idiot. That’s the only way to sufficiently get through to the kind of guy that Trump is, and I’m absolutely astonished that so many people still fail to realize this. You don’t cut a bully down to size by tattling on him. You have to put the fear of God in him directly. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/28 "2020-06-10T05:32:56Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Dumb as a bag of left-handed hammers. Yet he single-handedly defeated both the Republican and Democrat establishments and won the Presidency. Hmmmm. What does that say about the rest of the Washington establishment? He did not defeat anyone single-handedly. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/29 "2020-06-10T05:56:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He did not defeat anyone single-handedly. But he did defeat them. That’s gotta hurt! Defeated by a stupid moron dumbass! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/30 "2020-06-10T06:35:20Z")
I’ve been disturbed by Trump on many occasions, Race war baiting Inciting rage Making fun of disabled persons Visiting and courting evil Dictators Grabbing pussies/treating women like crap Lying right through his teeth Being a bore Ugly as hell Him being stupid is probably the only thing that has saved us. He doesnt pay attention or can’t retain the knowledge to get us in real trouble. He cares about no one but Donald J. Trump. My old Granny used to say: Stupid is as Stupid does. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/31 "2020-06-10T07:11:27Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > But he did defeat them. That’s gotta hurt! Defeated by a stupid moron dumbass! The Republicans built a system designed to put own on their own into power, and Trump latched onto it like a parasite. _He_ didn’t do anything. The Republicans defeated _themselves._ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/32 "2020-06-10T09:47:02Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > But he did defeat them. That’s gotta hurt! Defeated by a stupid moron dumbass! “Sir,” whimpered a dewy-eyed Tim, “you’re an inspiration to moron dumbasses everywhere.” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/33 "2020-06-10T10:33:39Z")
He’s stupid? Aha, that explains everything! I couldn’t understand how so many things could go so wrong under such a stable genius! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/34 "2020-06-10T11:44:22Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > He did not defeat anyone single-handedly. It doesn’t say shit. It speaks VOLUMES about the people who put him in office. The Dems only mistake is having too much faith in the American public: “Surely they can’t be dumb enough to vote for him.” ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/35 "2020-06-10T12:44:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Strange & interesting & kewl pictures you got on [that site there](https://schumanchu.eu/). 😃 > > I see shades of Jim Carrey, John Backderf, Robert Crumb, and Basil Wolverton there. Thanks a lot for the flattering, nice comparisons you came up with, very kind of you. Oh! And a new word! Kewl indeed 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/36 "2020-06-10T13:25:09Z")
I wonder if Bolton’s upcoming book will have any anecdotes attesting to our “stable genius”’ intellectual acuity. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/37 "2020-06-10T13:36:45Z")
Who has surprised me was Sean Conley, the Whitehouse physician. He lied and lied about Trumps condition. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/38 "2020-06-10T14:04:29Z")
And, his dumbness should be a point in the election. It is the prime piece of evidence that wealth inequality has real consequences. Donald Trump is not a successful man in any way. He inherited everything he has, and obtained wealth and power because of who he was born to, and not who he is. That is detrimental to the country that we are being led by people who are born into their positions and did not earn them. I have zero problem with people getting rich. I have a problem with people who are born rich. Nobody should be born without the opportunity to succeed, but perhaps just as importantly, nobody should be born with the opportunity to fail. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/39 "2020-06-10T14:07:27Z")
He’s the ultimate exemplar of how far you can get simply by being born rich, male, and white; no other qualifications required. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266/40 "2020-06-10T15:37:04Z")
Trump has zero intellect. But he knows how to con people. He understands power. He knows how to manipulate people, and I suppose that requires intelligence on some level even if we don’t want to recognize it as such. That, we cannot deny, no matter how utterly fucking idiotic we believe him to be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-really-is-stupid/855266.md?page=3)