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In his article at the following link, author Paul Blest is spot on when he states, “Donald Trump has spent the entire first year of his presidency doing the opposite of learning on the job. Nowhere is this more plainly obvious than his grasp of foreign policy; the only thing he has learned, it seems, is that the media loves it when he bombs stuff or gets troops killed.”
Blest then gives an example of the idiot Trump showing his total ignorance of the issues during a meeting with Angela Merkel. He reports that, “Some officials in the Trump White House ‘found the episode humiliating,’ presumably because the head of the German government had to explain to the most powerful politician in the world how trade negotiations with one of the United States’ largest trading partners works, and because Trump changed his definition of ‘a new bilateral trade agreement with Germany’ in the same conversation.”
In the year since his inauguration, the conservative rag
National Review moved from their stand, “Against Trump”, to defending his stupidity.
Another example proving the idiot Trump sorely lacks the knowledge necessary to be POTUS appeared in the New York Times. That piece attempted “to assign Trump’s foreign policy some kind of quality that can’t be boiled down to him not knowing anything. Reporter Mark Landler writes that Trump is ‘unpredictable and inward-looking’ and ‘remains an erratic, idiosyncratic leader on the global stage, an insurgent who attacks allies the United States has nurtured since World War II and who can seem more at home with America’s adversaries,’ namely Russia and China. He also says that Trump’s tweets ‘often make a mockery of his administration’s policies and subvert the messages his emissaries are trying to deliver abroad.’ “
The idiot Trump’s supporters find his stupidity to be his most appealing quality, as it echoes their own deficiency in knowledge. Conservatives hear in the idiot Trump’s vile rhetoric vindication of their own, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, and his permission to openly embrace the Nazis’ movement here in the U.S. (Conservatives’ have obviously forgotten WWII and why it was fought.)
In closing his column, Blest concludes, most accurately, that “Trump is ‘unorthodox’ because he doesn’t know anything. Contrary to what some in the media would like to believe, there is no doctrine or approach, just whatever Trump feels like saying or doing at any given moment. Trump isn’t unpredictable or inward-looking, but rather completely clueless and unwilling to learn.”
Here again, the idiot Trump’s refusal to familiarize himself with all the facts and protocols necessary to carry on an intelligent conservation with...anyone, fits well with the conservatives’ well-known disdain for education beyond the basic three Rs. (For conservatives, unaware of the term “three Rs”, it refers to readin’, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmetic.)
https://splinternews.com/consider-that-trump-might-just-be-dumb-1821636247?utm_source=splinter_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-12-29
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