His own Secretary of State called him a moron. Why would the former CEO of possibly the largest oil company in the world be so unprofessional that he would call his boss a moron? There is only one reason he would do something like that.
So what did Trump do to counter such a charge? He talks about his IQ? He starts calling names? Liddle instead of Little.
Trump lashes 'Liddle Bob Corker' as senators call for calm
He's got North Korea.
He's trying to help Iran make nuclear weapons.
He even talked about Harvey Weinstein. Remember that Trump was going to sue a dozen women? What happened? Remember, he said he could grab them and forcibly kiss them all because he's a star?
Why get involved with that?
He sent is Vice President to spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars to walk out of a football game when no one else did and it was the two worst teams in the league.
Then he's throwing paper towels. And when his followers say they saw no problem, I don't believe them.
He mispronounces Puerto Rico again and again. And he thinks it's funny.
He says to the people inside a shelter, look at all the people who came to see me. It was in a shelter.
All those followers can't all be morons. For some, doubt has to be creeping in. It just has to be.
Donald Trump sets a new dishonesty record: 40 false claims last week | Toronto Star
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When they say it's fake news who lies, not Trump. I don't believe it anymore that they believe he's truthful. It's too easy to check. They can't NOT know. It's just not possible.
It would be nice if one of them could explain in a coherent manner why they continue to supports someone his Secretary of State called a moron. Who then, spends the rest of the week, acting like a moron.
More than anything current Trump supporters are defending their mistake. They know deep down that they have made a yuuuuge mistake, but if they openly & publicly admit it, they are also admitting their political ignorance and that is something they won't do on any political board or facebook page. So they will continue to defend their mistake, and often times trying to use deflection towards something else to ease the pain of their own political ignorance.
Their ignorance is astounding. There's a reason for their ignorance. They have lived in a right wing media bubble for decades. FOX NEWS--Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other right wing talk show hosts
that have convinced them that all other news is FAKE news.
For the most part, Republicans and the conservative media existed symbiotically. Republicans used their newfound apparatus as a vehicle to drive home their message to supporters. Simultaneously, the conservative news media sought to lock in its audience by characterizing the mainstream press as an industry comprising dishonest liberals — something with which the GOP was more than happy to go along.
Donald Trump broke the conservative media
So this is how Trump became the poster boy of the Republican party
As Conor Friedersdorf wrote last year in the Atlantic: “the elements of the party that sent pro-Trump signals to primary voters—
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Jeff Sessions, Rick Scott, Jan Brewer, Rudi Guiliani, Sarah Palin, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Joe Arpaio Breitbart.com, The Drudge Report, The New York Post, are simply more powerful, relative to National Review, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and other ‘Trump is unacceptable’ forces, than previously thought.”
The GOP That Failed
Which is why Trump supporters seem so ignorant to others:
"The only thing that might be more perplexing than the psychology of Donald Trump is the psychology of his supporters. In their eyes, The Donald can do no wrong. Even Trump himself seems to be astonished by this phenomenon. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters,
OK? It’s, like, incredible.”
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect:
Some believe that many of those who support Donald Trump do so because of ignorance — basically they are under-informed or misinformed about the issues at hand. When Trump tells them that crime is skyrocketing in the United States, or that the economy is the worst it’s ever been, they simply take his word for it.
The seemingly obvious solution would be to try to reach those people through political ads, expert opinions, and logical arguments that
educate with facts. Except none of those things seem to be swaying any Trump supporters from his side, despite great efforts to deliver this information to them directly.
The Dunning-Kruger effect explains that the problem isn’t just that they are misinformed; it’s that they are completely unaware that they are misinformed. This creates a double burden.
Studies have shown that people who lack expertise in some area of knowledge often have a cognitive bias that prevents them from realizing that they lack expertise. As psychologist David Dunning puts it in an
op-ed for Politico, “The knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task — and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at the task. This includes political judgment.”
Essentially, they’re not smart enough to realize they’re dumb."
A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supporters’ brains
Again the reason why they're so politically inept--is because the ONLY thing they will listen too or read comes from right wing news sites. IOW they are filled 3 or more daily hours of right wing hyperbole, half truths, misconceptions and enough conspiracy theories to fill the capitial building from floor to ceiling--which makes them
"believe" that they are experts in the political arena--when they haven't graduated politics 101. Most of them do not understand basic civics. They have been preyed upon by right wing sites and hosts--and all for nothing more than ratings and those obscene profit breaks.
Since 2010 the above have attacked Establishment Republicans and set the stage for Donald Trump. Against all warnings about Trump from prominent Republicans these right wing talk show hosts convinced their audiences that Trump was the non Establishment candidate and promoted him to no end.
"The bombastic diatribe against the so-called GOP establishment was nothing new from Hannity. For years, he had cast himself as an outside crusader defending conservative values and principles from a liberal president and, even worse, cowardly Republicans who would allegedly bow to that president's demands. But in 2016, the criticism from Hannity and a vocal faction of the conservative news media reached a fever pitch. The occasional needling of Republicans morphed into full-blown, searing criticism. Even figures like Ryan and Cruz, considered by most to have iron-clad conservative credentials, were no longer safe.
Donald Trump broke the conservative media
Now they have effectively obliterated the entire Republican party.
All Along I Thought Trump Wasn’t a Conservative/Republican, But Now I Realize I’m Not