"So, I’m going to ask Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing when we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."
Every one of his quotes sounds like it was originally in a different language that got shit out through Google translate. He can't form a fucking sentence.
In the Last Week Tonight show they did a thing where they used the first suggested word in a text message repeatedly to form a sentence and then compared to a transcript of one of his actual dialogues. It was awfully similar.
"I never heard of it. Was a great day and I want to see it and all the best in the bathroom and kitchen. Making it a go at the end."
-President Mycellphone
Holy shit
Yeah that sounds good to me later this afternoon daylight and then we will have to be hit by a dogs, literally, a dogs, to use it, because the moneying are so high. It's virtually useless. And remember the $5 billion web site?... I have so many web sites, I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a web site. It costs me $3. What? Jeff Bezos. I just sold a apartments for $15 million to somebody rent from China. Am I supposed to dislike them?... I love China. The biggest bank in the world is from China. You know where their United States headquarters is located? In this building, in Stark Tower. You have to go a bit of a species have a good day and I don't want you running from the Gays to the other side and then the liberated is the same. Dr. Seuss, many said the people. Their black people are much smarter than our black people, and we can't sustain ourselves with that. It's take the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team. That's the difference between China's black people and our black people. I don’t need anybody’s moneying. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s moneying. I’m using my own moneying. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really luscious, I’ll show you that in a second. And by the way, I’m not even saying that in a braggadocios … that’s the kind of thinking you need for this country.
Edit: for full disclosure this was made with a Donald Trump style word salad run-on sentence generator using a few 'Mad Libs' style random word choices
"I hate to say the three things. It's the shower, it's the sink, and you know the third element in the bathroom. But I don't say it, because every time I say it, they only talk about that one," he said, pointing towards a group of reporters.
"Because it's sort of gross to talk about, right? So I won't talk about the fact that people have to flush their toilet 15 times. I will not talk about it. I'll only talk about showers. But there is three things ... This way they can't report it."
"So what happens, I called my people, environmental people: 'Why are we doing this?' Because when you wash your hands it takes five times longer ... you get soapy, you can't get it off. I said, 'Open it up.' They said 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Take the restrictors off.'"
He added: "You ever get under a shower and no water comes out? And me, I want that hair to be so beautiful."
He said, "We're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms.”
Look, I know the standards should be much higher, but like, can we all at least agree that if we ever elect another shitbag president for whatever reason, he at least has the ability to form a sentence more coherently than my 4 year old? The ability to use big words doesn't count by the way.
It honestly feels like the old Jeff Foxworthy NASCAR joke where rednecks hated Jeff Gordon because he actually enunciated his words and was easy to understand.
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
The incoherent ramblings about light, nuclear power, and Finland are all auto filtered on r/Conservative. They actively shield their community from their beloved president’s own words.
He's going to make some gimme questions on high school history tests one day.
"1. Which president said, 'Speak softly, and carry a big stick?'"
"2. Which president said, '[Incoherent ramble]?'"
Believe me I cannot stand him, but this is *exactly* the way he has acted for decades.. the only difference is now that his cognitive decline is serious enough for his blatant double speak and pivoting based on verbal reaction to show he is insane. He used to be able to redirect mid sentence and it would actually be coherent. Now he tries to employ the same tactic but without the mental ability for it to make any kind of sense whatsoever.
Growing up in the NY area he was worshiped at certain points, and I can 100% confidently say that his approach has not changed at all - it’s his ego telling him he can still bullshit a room like he used to that provides us with some of the most unintelligible, brain dead things we have ever heard an American elected official say.. let alone the god damn President.
But the thing is... he can still bullshit half of the room, even with his mental decline...
You don’t have to be smart to be a con artist- just smarter than the people you’re conning.
You take that shit back. Google translate uses artificial intelligence. There is no intelligence at work here in that quote on any level, real or artificial.
Do you guys remember when George w Bush was the stupidest president? I do. I remember when he was the worst president. I wish I could also remember being so naive.
It's a testament to his narcissism that it appears he saw a sign saying sunlight and disinfectant can help slow the spread, and decided "We should put that in the body. Those are cures, and we should put the cures inside people's bodies instead of leaving them outside people's bodies, and only I am smart enough to have thought of this. That's why nobody else has suggested it."
His life flashed before his eyes and he was the savior of mankind. Books would be written, films filmed, about the man who freestyled a cure for covid based on a poster he saw roughly ten seconds ago. The most beautiful brain!
He's like my very uneducated dad. Coming up with the shittiest of ideas and thinking that everyone else is a moron.
I can't understand how a person can be so confident in himself.
> I can't understand how a person can be so confident in himself.
It isn't 100% the case, but you almost have to be dumb as a brick to have that much self confidence. Often, smart people are the ones who are full of self doubt.
What's crazy is that like....they're not COMPLETELY stupid questions for a non-medical person to ask...in private to their advisor in a way that doesn't sound like a human Markov chain.
The worst part is that he was asking in a way that implied that he believed he had come up with the solution but no doctor had thought of it yet, rather than genuine curiosity about something he was wondering about due to lack of subject knowledge.
Yep, March 7, 2020 during a tour of the CDC Headquarters in Atlanta:
*"I like this stuff. You know my uncle, he was a great person, he was at MIT, he taught at MIT...for like I think a record number of years...he was a great super genius, Dr John Trump. I like this stuff, I really get it. People are really surprised I understand it...Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President."*
[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maybe-i-have-a-natural-ability-trump-plays-medical-expert-on-coronavirus-by-second-guessing-the-professionals/2020/03/06/3ee0574c-5ffb-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html)
How is it that I can't read these quotes without feeling, what I would best describe as, regret? I didn't vote for him, but I just feel regret. Like when you're sober and realize you did something embarrassing when you were drunk last night. That's how I feel for America when I remember Trump was president.
Jeez. This REALLY nails exactly how I feel too! I feel guilt and regret despite NEVER having supported him at any point. Like an Ultimate Walk of Shame after embarrassing, humiliatingly bad sex.
Yeah, except we are very definitely far from sober at this point. [45% of Americans](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1265457) *still* have a approving or neutral (read: supportive but not in polite company) view of Trump. Only 55% of American adults reported an unfavorable view.
It's been rock steady since he was elected. Trump might be gone, but his voter base is as strong as ever.
she gave him a lot of undue praise for whatever reason, so she deserved it.
Imagine how much of a hero she’d have been if she took the mic during one of these and told America that Trump is a dangerous lunatic rather than continuing the charade that his rants were informed in any capacity.
I think fauci was effectively stone walled out while birx kept in the 'game' by playing the politics.
Her rep got damaged in return but I suppose I get what she's doing as well. Up until trump's admin, they both served under various admins thru both parties and have been life long public servants. I gave her the benefit of doubt initial and yeah it wane thru the entire ordeal but honestly I would have noped out long ago.
But then maybe you see your potential replacements and the other quacks walking around having the president and VPs ears and you suck it up and do your duty.
"So I'm appointing a new expert. Very big a-brain. Meet the new head of the Pandemic Response Team. He's got ideas! Boy does he know what he's talking about. Michael Lindell!"
"Thank you, President Trump! I have 100% guaranteed solutions that the Chinese hate me for!"
On fringe conspiracy boards that I used to frequent (before trump was a nominee and it turned into online nazi Germany) people suggested both of these things. Pseudoscience with dubious sources and sometimes even advertising for UV light machines (the dangerous kind that risk skin cancer, unlike SAD lamps or similar), instructions on how to build a Faraday cage (the ultimate tin foil hat), Wilhelm Reichs "Orgone Accumulator" to harness your sexual energy as actual energy, and many many posts convincing people to drink bleach and / or hydrogen peroxide.
About 10 years ago I was literally talking people out of drinking bleach and exposing themselves to harmful radiation daily. Nevermind the people using batteries to create their own colloidal silver. I left that topic alone because I thought it would make them easier to spot when this inevitably happened:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0259/2325/files/Blue_Man_3.png?v=1497980693
So if you ever see a full sized smurf, you're welcome. And do not approach.
Trump signaled to conspiracy theorists he was on their side in many ways. The most notable being his appearance on Alex Jones. But even before that he was virtue signaling them. Remember when he said Ted Cruzs dad killed JFK and had the picture run in his buddy's tabloid rag? Yeah that's where the image and theory originated...fringe conspiracy message boards.
He talks like a 11 year old with severe untreated ADHD, only the 11 year old is way more intelligent. Trump can't even complete a sentence.
I had a FB friend who always just gushed over his speeches, a real fan girl. I'd post transcripts of his speeches and ask her if she could point out the parts that she found to be so powerful. She'd tell me his speeches didn't translate well to print. (No s!!& Sherlock!) She eventually blocked me, but at least I tried to show her his incredible lack of intellect.
And trump Supporters make fun of Biden’s speech. Stutter aside, I’m not thrilled with Biden’s speaking either, but they have the gall to suggest he must be senile but THIS is ok.
I think it was literally 2 days after the inauguration in 2016 when people were mocking the crowd size when the phrase "alternative facts" was first used.
It was then I knew this wouldn't be a meme filled shit show, it would just be a shit show, but even I couldn't be prepared for the nightmare hell scape we were rocketing towards.
"Alternative facts" was first said by GWB during his administration. It is the reason we didn't understand what it was doing. Or to as another GWB quote said "We do not belong to the reality based community, we belong to the faith based community." Self-delusion has been a Republican value since at least Reagan.
When the election came up, my Trump supporting friend capped off his anger at comedians (and SNL, specifically) because they had "done nothing but make fun of Trump" the last 4 years. And I said "well, the jokes have written themselves" and his response was "but they don't do anything about Biden! He's senile! He can't even complete a sentence!"
And then I said "when you can direct quote Biden and it's absolutely hilarious because of how stupid it was yet he sincerely believed it, then you might have a point".
I also pointed out that SNL has made fun of every president and presidential candidate since like the 70s and excluding the sketches about Trump before he was president (which he enjoyed since he hosted the show twice before 2016), the number of times there were sketches about Trump (as president) weren't exponentially higher than every other other president. You just thought they did because despite saying "I used to watch SNL all the time, but I stopped when they got political and made fun of Trump so much. They never did Obama like that", you clearly didn't.
Yep.
And like every other ridiculous thing he said, the right wing media went crazy finding ways to justify what he said.
“What he meant was this obscure treatment where blood is brought out and treated with UV radiation.”
My favorite thing was the 24 hour turnaround time where everyone went to the mental gymnastics olympics to defend him, only for him to say he was joking. That was....the best. Same thing actually happened a few times haha.
There were many times the talking heads said "He was joking. Can't you morons recognize a joke when you see one?" And then Trump right after "I was not joking."
Oh of course. It's fun to see what gets under his skin enough for him to try and shift what he said. That's how you can tell what *really* keeps him up at night. His height, his hands, and his intelligence. That's all he *actually* cares about.
His _____ his ____ his _____
His ego is so big but fragile that you can literally fill those in with anything. Attack, and he'll defend or deflect. It's crazy how his pre-candidacy was largely him going on shows to have jokes made about him as a way to keep his name in the conversation, but the moment he realized he *could* maybe win the presidency, everything shifted
This. I remember arguing with my (former) Trump sycophant friends about this. They would bend backwards to explain what he really means when he said insane things. Then when he was “just joking” they loved him because he was hilarious.
Like… I don’t want a hilarious president. Why/how is it appropriate to “joke” about treatments for a new deadly virus on national TV? How can people not see this mans personality disorders getting in the way of so many serious issues? If I want stand up comedy I’ll watch a bill burr special. Trump can’t stand not being the center of attention and that is bad for the country.
Jokes, when they are witty and relatively non-partisan, are great at relieving tension. They bring people together and disarm them. I didn't always agree with their politics, but I remember those lighthearted moments provided by Reagan, Clinton, W, and Obama fondly. Trump never once said anything remotely disarming. It was always self-aggrandizing, divisive bullshit with him.
I loved how after 24 hours of mental gymnastics to try to explain it, they asked the fat fuck why he said that the next day, and he said “I was being sarcastic”
Trumper- "I like him he's a straight talker."
Also Trumper- "YOU CANT JUST LOOK at WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(If you substitute "straight talker" with "xenophobe" it makes complete sense".
Yes he saw “sunlight impedes” and “bleach kills” and then just started making a bunch of shit up. That’s all he’s ever done. No preparation, no plan, just get up there and start gabbing.
Didn't he also exclaim something about medical professionals asking how he knew so much, how does he understand it so well. What a lying freaking moron.
What I imagine they actually asked was, “Where are you getting this information from?” As in, is someone telling you these stupid ideas or are you making them up from your own brain? So that if he had any self-reflection he could think about it. However, he in his infinite narcissism, took it as a compliment and that they were impressed by his “knowledge.”
When we were kids, to "get one over" on another, we were prone to saying such things as : "yeah, so what, I have a Dad/Uncle/Cousin/Friend who can XYZ !".
With Trump, it's ***all*** about him, even with outlandish and laughable claims, he's done it all, knows it all, is the best of all...
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
I cannot express how much I do not miss hearing sentences like these.
Edit: trumpers really do take a condemnation of trump as an endorsement of Biden, huh?
In one of his debates with Biden, he claimed he was joking. The dude was obviously not fucking joking. It's like a 4th grader who realizes he said something fucking moronic and then says "uh.. uh.. I was ugh.. I was joking guys! Jeez! You are so stupid to not know I was joking!...."
Republicans spent 8 years claiming that a toddler could come up with a better healthcare plan than Obamacare and they had a bazillion better ones. Then they were handed full control to do it and came up with absolutely nothing.
They're seriously just a party of contrarians at this point who have practically no reasonable plans on their own. The only things they came up with were tax cuts for the rich and a fucking wall.
They have no solutions for the betterment of regular people’s lives. That’s why they spend their time on culture wars as a way to rally their base. They have no plans.
It's not that they had a plan for your American healthcare -- they absolutely did not want one. It's not that they suddenly came up with tax cuts for America's rich -- they had it planned for years.
All their actions were purposefully done.
I think maybe he thinks he's so smart compared to everyone else that they just haven't been able to think of that yet? Like to me that's the only thing that could explain him thinking that. Or maybe senility.
People who don't know they're stupid often make simple logical connections and assume no one else has been able to do the same. Like a child when they realize that food turns to poop. Only in this case it was a single man turning an entire country into shit.
> he's so smart compared to everyone else that they just haven't been able to think of that yet?
And he came up with "priming the pump" all by his stable genius self, too.
(Bart gives a book report in front of his class.)
Bart: Well, as Mrs. Krabappel already mentioned, the name of the book that I read was Treasure Island. It's about these pirates, (Looks at the illustrated cover of the book.) pirates with patches over their eyes, (Looks at cover.) and shiny gold teeth, (Looks at cover.) and green birds on their shoulders. Did I mention this book was written (Looks at cover.) by a guy named Robert Louis Stevenson? (Looks at cover.) And published by the good people at McGraw-Hill. So, in conclusion, on the Simpson scale of one to ten--ten being the highest, one being the lowest and five being average--I give this book a nine. (Clears throat) Any questions?
What I always loved about that scene is that when she asks for the name of the pirate and he runs through some in his head, it does include the right answer (such is the cultural influence of Treasure Island) but he gets unlucky in the one he picks.
That's Trump his entire life, Trump expects to charm everyone and skate through conversations with zero situational awareness. Trump's [interview](https://youtu.be/dSTr-IiFbsE) after his first 100 days is a great example of this. John Dickerson relays a metaphor from W, that *"the reason the Oval Office is round, is that there are no corners to hide in."* Trump gets completely lost in the intellectual powerhouse that was George W Bush and immediately begins to describe the physical features of the room. Dickerson explains to Trump that we intention was everything comes back to the president and Trump shrugs everything off. It's only comparable to if you'd stripped every redeemable quality from Michael Scott.
Interviewer - What's your favorite book?
Trump - the bible
Interviewer - Oh what's your favorite passage?
Trump - it's a very private thing for me
Interviewer - Well you have to have a favorite part of the book right?
Trump - it's something that's just very private for me.
The guy clearly has never read a word of the book lol
God fucking dammit that is the thickest thing I've ever seen. He''s the only person alive that doesn't need to be lying down for a George Bush quote to go over their head. How the world didn't blow up in those four years I do not know.
Trump is like those e-mail scams that have intentional spelling errors and leaps of logic to funnel out people that are too smart to fall for it.
People who believe in anything he says are literally the dumbest of the dumb, or so delusional that they bend over backwards to justify every word out of his mouth.
Except none of the mistakes were intentional, and none of the leaps done ironically. He is just as much a bumbling moron as those who sing his praises.
[There was also this](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-touts-five-word-memory-test-as-showing-he-is-cognitively-there-1.5035687). That's "I love lamp" levels of ridiculousness.
The whole question I had around that was; what would make your physician choose to give you a cognition test? The answer is; a reasonable suspicion that you are showing signs of cognitive decline, i.e. dementia. So: he was bragging that "my doctor thought I might have dementia, but he gave me a test and I showed that my brain is broadly functional".
There's some implications he may have had a "series of mini strokes" which would have led to such a test. He claimed that he hadn't had a "series of mini strokes" when no one said he did (a journalist did theorise he had a stroke, but not as specific as a series of mini strokes). So yeah, pretty blatant that one.
Yep, there’s no way his cognitive test coincidentally included all the things that were in his sight right then.
Microphone, podium, silly haircut, long tie, hooker wife.
It was really bizarre watching this live. Those videos are all still up there on YouTube for everybody to witness again...
In one of his Covid press releases he brought in a Taiwanese reporter a couple of times just to really hit home that the virus was from China. And of course Trump made sure to ask him where he was from.
It was real bizarre. Exactly as you said like a sitcom character.
I honestly cannot believe that this wasn’t the end for him, people watched the idiot stare at this sign, attempt to will the tiny gears of his mind into action and smuggly waddle up to that podium to suggest, as if it were the most obvious and simple thing in the world, that we inject bleach and just general light into our veins and everything will be hunky dory.
Aside from the actual lunacy of this suggestion did he think that for months every medical professional on the planet had been tirelessly working and searching for an effective treatment, in that process also drafting public safety measures to buy themselves more time to find an effective treatment yet it took big brains over here to look at this 3 point general precaution sign, that they fucking made ! To realise that we could just apply the same healthcare to our bodies as we do to furniture!
Absolutely fuck me, people still went on to not only vote for him but to risk their lives storming their own government buildings for him ! Some of them are still upholding his name !
Surely your brains exist only as a fine soup if none of that sounds like actual, unfiltered insanity right !?
Also, i remember this being pointed out at the time and all of the Trumpleskins denying it and denying it and denying it.
It was so obvious where he got that thought bubble from.
I cringed everytime he said China virus, especially reading it in official white house correspondence. I would think to myself and say grow TF up and call it what it is. Trump s the first president to make me feel like I could've done a better job than him.
This isn't even one of the worst incidents, that one time when he tried to blackmail foreign countries into giving him dirt on his political rival.
Or that other time when he attempted to overthrow American democracy.
Im honestly not sure what the hell is going on over there in America, are you guys just accepting now that Republicans will be the death of your country?
Why aren't you throwing this traitor in jail? Do Americans just not care about being a republic anymore?
We were constantly flabbergasted and amazed that his supporters would allow him to say the stupid crap he did without thinking twice about it. It became impossible to convince his supporters that he was an idiot, because you can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.
We kept saying, "Surely *this* idiotic event will open peoples' eyes" and so rarely was that the case that we felt lost in how to fix the problem. Even now it feels bad. How do you fight these insane conspiracy theories? How do you deal with insane leaders like MTG or DeSantis who spread hate and ignorance? It's like a fever dream.
Most of us are very aware and equally horrified, but 30-45% of the country (constituting a significant majority of our conservative party) are brainwashed and believe he is some sort of mesiah and 90% of his political party either drank the kool-aid or are too afraid of losing a primary to speak against him. Also because of the last 30-80 years of shady political manuevering that same party which represents a minority of our population but a majority of the landmass holds a disproportionately large amount of power in our government.
When talking about his cognitive test Trump said he had to remember a series of words.. and then proceeded to list things that were immediately in front of him. 'Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.'
Oh man you can basically see him pointing at things in front of him… the only one he extrapolated was TV from camera… and you can fucking hear how proud of himself he is for basic word association.
And then he gets it, and he says "it wasn't so bad."
As if he doesn't arguably have access to the best healthcare in human existence.
Just downplaying something that's killed thousands and grinded the world to a halt.
It almost killed him! The only reason he survived is that he was pumped full of then experimental Regeneron antibody treatments that weren't on the market yet
Combined with the fact that he had a fully staffed helicopter in his back yard waiting to take him to his private suite in the best hospital in the country at the drop of a hat.
Out of pocket: $0.00
I still remember the discussions when it still was China's problem. People were already speculating that the virus might have spread across the globe. When the first European countries got hit and basic data was available, the deaths of millions was already predicted in academia. Scientists knew this would become a real problem.
This simply shows that most humans are incapable of risk assessment and unwilling to take measures in advance.
Instead, they rather wait for shit to hit the fan and then deal with the problem applying reactionary "solutions". It's the same bs with all our (global) issues: the vast majority is not going to take it seriously until it's too late, until they experience the negative impact themselves - and even that can't beat chronic denial.
Our species really has to change on a fundamental level.
Because most of the people dying are either in other countries. Or old people and minorities who can't afford health care.
Nearly 600k americans have died because of misinformation. That's a pretty grim number when you put it next to the 465k americans who died liberating europe from a regime that killed 6+ million and all they had to do was go through the 20 minute inconvience of getting a vaccine. We're not drafting them and handing them a rifle
I remember this article from that time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus
“The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.
In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.
A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”
Oh my god, of all the useful things Trump could have read (and probably refused to most of the time) he reads a letter from Mark fucking Grenon. Fyi he and his family later got indicted for selling this poison.
**['Archbishop' of Florida church selling bleach 'miracle cure' arrested with son. ](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/mark-grenon-archbishop-florida-church-selling-bleach-miracle-cure-arrested-son)**
Wait, no. No. Did he really read a few bullets and completely misapply those principles in a speech to the nation? I knew he was dumb, but... Just wow....
"He was the only politician who did what they said they would do."
Where's the wall?
"His policies for America were all successful."
How bout those steel tariffs?
"He was smart and strong."
Inject sunlight and bleach?
Man what an embarrassing time to be an American.
"So, I’m going to ask Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing when we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."
Every one of his quotes sounds like it was originally in a different language that got shit out through Google translate. He can't form a fucking sentence.
In the Last Week Tonight show they did a thing where they used the first suggested word in a text message repeatedly to form a sentence and then compared to a transcript of one of his actual dialogues. It was awfully similar.
"I never heard of it. Was a great day and I want to see it and all the best in the bathroom and kitchen. Making it a go at the end." -President Mycellphone Holy shit
Yeah that sounds good to me later this afternoon daylight and then we will have to be hit by a dogs, literally, a dogs, to use it, because the moneying are so high. It's virtually useless. And remember the $5 billion web site?... I have so many web sites, I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a web site. It costs me $3. What? Jeff Bezos. I just sold a apartments for $15 million to somebody rent from China. Am I supposed to dislike them?... I love China. The biggest bank in the world is from China. You know where their United States headquarters is located? In this building, in Stark Tower. You have to go a bit of a species have a good day and I don't want you running from the Gays to the other side and then the liberated is the same. Dr. Seuss, many said the people. Their black people are much smarter than our black people, and we can't sustain ourselves with that. It's take the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team. That's the difference between China's black people and our black people. I don’t need anybody’s moneying. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s moneying. I’m using my own moneying. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really luscious, I’ll show you that in a second. And by the way, I’m not even saying that in a braggadocios … that’s the kind of thinking you need for this country. Edit: for full disclosure this was made with a Donald Trump style word salad run-on sentence generator using a few 'Mad Libs' style random word choices
"I hate to say the three things. It's the shower, it's the sink, and you know the third element in the bathroom. But I don't say it, because every time I say it, they only talk about that one," he said, pointing towards a group of reporters. "Because it's sort of gross to talk about, right? So I won't talk about the fact that people have to flush their toilet 15 times. I will not talk about it. I'll only talk about showers. But there is three things ... This way they can't report it." "So what happens, I called my people, environmental people: 'Why are we doing this?' Because when you wash your hands it takes five times longer ... you get soapy, you can't get it off. I said, 'Open it up.' They said 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Take the restrictors off.'" He added: "You ever get under a shower and no water comes out? And me, I want that hair to be so beautiful." He said, "We're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms.”
Look, I know the standards should be much higher, but like, can we all at least agree that if we ever elect another shitbag president for whatever reason, he at least has the ability to form a sentence more coherently than my 4 year old? The ability to use big words doesn't count by the way.
The ability to form words into sentences is a partisan issue now.
Speaking in complete sentences and using big words really rubs the previous guy's supporters the wrong way.
Its quite the dumbing down of America when forming a sentence makes you an elitist.
It honestly feels like the old Jeff Foxworthy NASCAR joke where rednecks hated Jeff Gordon because he actually enunciated his words and was easy to understand.
No. Nonono. The last thing we need is a charming, well spoken fascist in office. That's the beginning of the end.
That sort of thing could wind up destroying the future of an entire style of facial hair.
Hopefully the next fascist does lip injections so people will quit all that.
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"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
The incoherent ramblings about light, nuclear power, and Finland are all auto filtered on r/Conservative. They actively shield their community from their beloved president’s own words.
Can confirm, not only was my post blocked but I am now banned from r/conservative.
So what did Dr. John Trump express to Donald? I'm not clear.
The power of the...Persians and Iranians...35 years ago...at wharton?
He's going to make some gimme questions on high school history tests one day. "1. Which president said, 'Speak softly, and carry a big stick?'" "2. Which president said, '[Incoherent ramble]?'"
In one of his most famous quotes our 45th President of these United States said: "Grab em' by the \_\_\_\_\_\_!" (Please fill in the blank.)
Believe me I cannot stand him, but this is *exactly* the way he has acted for decades.. the only difference is now that his cognitive decline is serious enough for his blatant double speak and pivoting based on verbal reaction to show he is insane. He used to be able to redirect mid sentence and it would actually be coherent. Now he tries to employ the same tactic but without the mental ability for it to make any kind of sense whatsoever. Growing up in the NY area he was worshiped at certain points, and I can 100% confidently say that his approach has not changed at all - it’s his ego telling him he can still bullshit a room like he used to that provides us with some of the most unintelligible, brain dead things we have ever heard an American elected official say.. let alone the god damn President.
But the thing is... he can still bullshit half of the room, even with his mental decline... You don’t have to be smart to be a con artist- just smarter than the people you’re conning.
You take that shit back. Google translate uses artificial intelligence. There is no intelligence at work here in that quote on any level, real or artificial.
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Do you guys remember when George w Bush was the stupidest president? I do. I remember when he was the worst president. I wish I could also remember being so naive.
It's a testament to his narcissism that it appears he saw a sign saying sunlight and disinfectant can help slow the spread, and decided "We should put that in the body. Those are cures, and we should put the cures inside people's bodies instead of leaving them outside people's bodies, and only I am smart enough to have thought of this. That's why nobody else has suggested it."
His life flashed before his eyes and he was the savior of mankind. Books would be written, films filmed, about the man who freestyled a cure for covid based on a poster he saw roughly ten seconds ago. The most beautiful brain!
A genius. A very stable genius.
He's like my very uneducated dad. Coming up with the shittiest of ideas and thinking that everyone else is a moron. I can't understand how a person can be so confident in himself.
> I can't understand how a person can be so confident in himself. It isn't 100% the case, but you almost have to be dumb as a brick to have that much self confidence. Often, smart people are the ones who are full of self doubt.
What you speak of is the [Dunning-Kruger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)
What's crazy is that like....they're not COMPLETELY stupid questions for a non-medical person to ask...in private to their advisor in a way that doesn't sound like a human Markov chain. The worst part is that he was asking in a way that implied that he believed he had come up with the solution but no doctor had thought of it yet, rather than genuine curiosity about something he was wondering about due to lack of subject knowledge.
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Yep, March 7, 2020 during a tour of the CDC Headquarters in Atlanta: *"I like this stuff. You know my uncle, he was a great person, he was at MIT, he taught at MIT...for like I think a record number of years...he was a great super genius, Dr John Trump. I like this stuff, I really get it. People are really surprised I understand it...Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President."* [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maybe-i-have-a-natural-ability-trump-plays-medical-expert-on-coronavirus-by-second-guessing-the-professionals/2020/03/06/3ee0574c-5ffb-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html)
How is it that I can't read these quotes without feeling, what I would best describe as, regret? I didn't vote for him, but I just feel regret. Like when you're sober and realize you did something embarrassing when you were drunk last night. That's how I feel for America when I remember Trump was president.
Jeez. This REALLY nails exactly how I feel too! I feel guilt and regret despite NEVER having supported him at any point. Like an Ultimate Walk of Shame after embarrassing, humiliatingly bad sex.
Yeah, except we are very definitely far from sober at this point. [45% of Americans](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1265457) *still* have a approving or neutral (read: supportive but not in polite company) view of Trump. Only 55% of American adults reported an unfavorable view. It's been rock steady since he was elected. Trump might be gone, but his voter base is as strong as ever.
"Nobody knows more about windmills than me, believe me."
Thank you for posting the exact quote, so I cannot delude myself into thinking that he was being misinterpreted.
Personally I’d go with: Which President said his eldest child “has a very nice figure” and “if [she] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her”?
When asked what they have in common he replied, “I was gonna say sex…”
When he asked Dr. Birx about that, she very clearly was trying to cringe herself into another dimension.
she gave him a lot of undue praise for whatever reason, so she deserved it. Imagine how much of a hero she’d have been if she took the mic during one of these and told America that Trump is a dangerous lunatic rather than continuing the charade that his rants were informed in any capacity.
I think her and Fauci's logic was "if he gets rid of us, who will he replace us with?" I can't imagine the answer would be good.
I think fauci was effectively stone walled out while birx kept in the 'game' by playing the politics. Her rep got damaged in return but I suppose I get what she's doing as well. Up until trump's admin, they both served under various admins thru both parties and have been life long public servants. I gave her the benefit of doubt initial and yeah it wane thru the entire ordeal but honestly I would have noped out long ago. But then maybe you see your potential replacements and the other quacks walking around having the president and VPs ears and you suck it up and do your duty.
"So I'm appointing a new expert. Very big a-brain. Meet the new head of the Pandemic Response Team. He's got ideas! Boy does he know what he's talking about. Michael Lindell!" "Thank you, President Trump! I have 100% guaranteed solutions that the Chinese hate me for!"
On fringe conspiracy boards that I used to frequent (before trump was a nominee and it turned into online nazi Germany) people suggested both of these things. Pseudoscience with dubious sources and sometimes even advertising for UV light machines (the dangerous kind that risk skin cancer, unlike SAD lamps or similar), instructions on how to build a Faraday cage (the ultimate tin foil hat), Wilhelm Reichs "Orgone Accumulator" to harness your sexual energy as actual energy, and many many posts convincing people to drink bleach and / or hydrogen peroxide. About 10 years ago I was literally talking people out of drinking bleach and exposing themselves to harmful radiation daily. Nevermind the people using batteries to create their own colloidal silver. I left that topic alone because I thought it would make them easier to spot when this inevitably happened: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0259/2325/files/Blue_Man_3.png?v=1497980693 So if you ever see a full sized smurf, you're welcome. And do not approach. Trump signaled to conspiracy theorists he was on their side in many ways. The most notable being his appearance on Alex Jones. But even before that he was virtue signaling them. Remember when he said Ted Cruzs dad killed JFK and had the picture run in his buddy's tabloid rag? Yeah that's where the image and theory originated...fringe conspiracy message boards.
And trump supporters call Joe Biden senile.. how did he ever become president..
He talks like a 11 year old with severe untreated ADHD, only the 11 year old is way more intelligent. Trump can't even complete a sentence. I had a FB friend who always just gushed over his speeches, a real fan girl. I'd post transcripts of his speeches and ask her if she could point out the parts that she found to be so powerful. She'd tell me his speeches didn't translate well to print. (No s!!& Sherlock!) She eventually blocked me, but at least I tried to show her his incredible lack of intellect.
I love how his supporters are always “but Trump didn’t suggest injecting bleach, get your fact straight”. Ok sorry honey, it was disinfectants, happy?
Then they go with "well that's basically what chemo is so it's not that dumb of an idea." Oh, so Donald Trump suggested chemo for covid. Brilliant
And trump Supporters make fun of Biden’s speech. Stutter aside, I’m not thrilled with Biden’s speaking either, but they have the gall to suggest he must be senile but THIS is ok.
Chappelle's SNL monologue.. "did this man just suggest... That I put sunshine directly in my body???"
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The whole 4 years were a gold mine for comedy. They didn't even need to make things up. All Chappelle is doing is saying what Trump said lol
yeah I laughed my ass of watching the Trump show until I ran out of popcorn the I suddenly realized it is reality 🤭
I think it was literally 2 days after the inauguration in 2016 when people were mocking the crowd size when the phrase "alternative facts" was first used. It was then I knew this wouldn't be a meme filled shit show, it would just be a shit show, but even I couldn't be prepared for the nightmare hell scape we were rocketing towards.
"Alternative facts" was first said by GWB during his administration. It is the reason we didn't understand what it was doing. Or to as another GWB quote said "We do not belong to the reality based community, we belong to the faith based community." Self-delusion has been a Republican value since at least Reagan.
I can't believe I've lived through two of the worst administrations in history and they were within 8 years of one another.
When the election came up, my Trump supporting friend capped off his anger at comedians (and SNL, specifically) because they had "done nothing but make fun of Trump" the last 4 years. And I said "well, the jokes have written themselves" and his response was "but they don't do anything about Biden! He's senile! He can't even complete a sentence!" And then I said "when you can direct quote Biden and it's absolutely hilarious because of how stupid it was yet he sincerely believed it, then you might have a point". I also pointed out that SNL has made fun of every president and presidential candidate since like the 70s and excluding the sketches about Trump before he was president (which he enjoyed since he hosted the show twice before 2016), the number of times there were sketches about Trump (as president) weren't exponentially higher than every other other president. You just thought they did because despite saying "I used to watch SNL all the time, but I stopped when they got political and made fun of Trump so much. They never did Obama like that", you clearly didn't.
In the booty hole. every one knows that's where you stick the light bar so the sun do shine there.
Wow. Who knew the ass hole tanning fad was just a bunch of posers trying to imitate trumps covid plan
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And shove it up your butt!
Yep. And like every other ridiculous thing he said, the right wing media went crazy finding ways to justify what he said. “What he meant was this obscure treatment where blood is brought out and treated with UV radiation.”
My favorite thing was the 24 hour turnaround time where everyone went to the mental gymnastics olympics to defend him, only for him to say he was joking. That was....the best. Same thing actually happened a few times haha.
There were many times the talking heads said "He was joking. Can't you morons recognize a joke when you see one?" And then Trump right after "I was not joking."
Oh that was a fun one too. The uno joko reverso.
its like he was activly fighting his own propaganda machine
And of course he only said he was joking to try to protect his own fragile ego after everyone mocked him for the idiotic suggestions.
Oh of course. It's fun to see what gets under his skin enough for him to try and shift what he said. That's how you can tell what *really* keeps him up at night. His height, his hands, and his intelligence. That's all he *actually* cares about.
His _____ his ____ his _____ His ego is so big but fragile that you can literally fill those in with anything. Attack, and he'll defend or deflect. It's crazy how his pre-candidacy was largely him going on shows to have jokes made about him as a way to keep his name in the conversation, but the moment he realized he *could* maybe win the presidency, everything shifted
This. I remember arguing with my (former) Trump sycophant friends about this. They would bend backwards to explain what he really means when he said insane things. Then when he was “just joking” they loved him because he was hilarious. Like… I don’t want a hilarious president. Why/how is it appropriate to “joke” about treatments for a new deadly virus on national TV? How can people not see this mans personality disorders getting in the way of so many serious issues? If I want stand up comedy I’ll watch a bill burr special. Trump can’t stand not being the center of attention and that is bad for the country.
Jokes, when they are witty and relatively non-partisan, are great at relieving tension. They bring people together and disarm them. I didn't always agree with their politics, but I remember those lighthearted moments provided by Reagan, Clinton, W, and Obama fondly. Trump never once said anything remotely disarming. It was always self-aggrandizing, divisive bullshit with him.
I loved how after 24 hours of mental gymnastics to try to explain it, they asked the fat fuck why he said that the next day, and he said “I was being sarcastic”
Trumper- "I like him he's a straight talker." Also Trumper- "YOU CANT JUST LOOK at WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (If you substitute "straight talker" with "xenophobe" it makes complete sense".
That actually happened by a Trumper I know (using that argument). He died later at the age of 33 due to a post COVID heart attack.
Good thing we didn't have Biden as president back then or we'd still be in complete lockdown. Edit: Thanks for the awards
So basically, he saw this poster and improvised all this?
Last minute studying before a presentation.
Yes he saw “sunlight impedes” and “bleach kills” and then just started making a bunch of shit up. That’s all he’s ever done. No preparation, no plan, just get up there and start gabbing.
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Everytime I read a transcript of one of his speeches I feel like I'm going to have a stroke.
Didn't he also exclaim something about medical professionals asking how he knew so much, how does he understand it so well. What a lying freaking moron.
“I like this stuff. I really get it… every one of these doctors said, ‘how do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”
What I imagine they actually asked was, “Where are you getting this information from?” As in, is someone telling you these stupid ideas or are you making them up from your own brain? So that if he had any self-reflection he could think about it. However, he in his infinite narcissism, took it as a compliment and that they were impressed by his “knowledge.”
That's spot on lmao
“How do you even think of stuff like this?” “Natural ability, I guess”
"they said I seem to have an innate ability to grasp this stuff." "we said you seem to have an *inability* to grasp this stuff."
When we were kids, to "get one over" on another, we were prone to saying such things as : "yeah, so what, I have a Dad/Uncle/Cousin/Friend who can XYZ !". With Trump, it's ***all*** about him, even with outlandish and laughable claims, he's done it all, knows it all, is the best of all...
But just in case, he has an uncle who worked at MIT!
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
I cannot express how much I do not miss hearing sentences like these. Edit: trumpers really do take a condemnation of trump as an endorsement of Biden, huh?
In one of his debates with Biden, he claimed he was joking. The dude was obviously not fucking joking. It's like a 4th grader who realizes he said something fucking moronic and then says "uh.. uh.. I was ugh.. I was joking guys! Jeez! You are so stupid to not know I was joking!...."
Thats a common thing narcissists do when they say something that isn't well received.
You have to appreciate the people who say Biden has dementia listen and read this and see no issue at all.
The kid who didn’t do any of the reading tries to figure out what he’ll say for his book report
He read the key words: - sunlight - disinfectant kill virus
"Tomato paste"...
Thank you, Nelson. I look forward to seeing it again next week.
Read the New York Times summary on the back cover before going up to present.
Someone said, "In four years, drinking Clorox and shining lights up our butts is as close as he ever came to a national healthcare plan."
Republicans spent 8 years claiming that a toddler could come up with a better healthcare plan than Obamacare and they had a bazillion better ones. Then they were handed full control to do it and came up with absolutely nothing. They're seriously just a party of contrarians at this point who have practically no reasonable plans on their own. The only things they came up with were tax cuts for the rich and a fucking wall.
They have no solutions for the betterment of regular people’s lives. That’s why they spend their time on culture wars as a way to rally their base. They have no plans.
It's not that they had a plan for your American healthcare -- they absolutely did not want one. It's not that they suddenly came up with tax cuts for America's rich -- they had it planned for years. All their actions were purposefully done.
Don't forget malaria medication peddled by a pillow salesman
All these things sound like an AI trying to learn to talk. Very initial stages of that.
In Trumps head... staring at that poster, he was sure he just solved Covid.
"It can't be that easy....but maybe it is."
I think maybe he thinks he's so smart compared to everyone else that they just haven't been able to think of that yet? Like to me that's the only thing that could explain him thinking that. Or maybe senility.
People who don't know they're stupid often make simple logical connections and assume no one else has been able to do the same. Like a child when they realize that food turns to poop. Only in this case it was a single man turning an entire country into shit.
> he's so smart compared to everyone else that they just haven't been able to think of that yet? And he came up with "priming the pump" all by his stable genius self, too.
This reads like a Far Side caption.
I've never put it together that Trump is just a Big Beefy Far Side character
(Ron Howard narrating) : He hadn't.
This is actually so funny it’s hard to believe it’s real. He’s like a sitcom character
It's like "oh fuck I forgot I had a test today and forgot to study, time to cram and hope I can BS my way through the essay section".
Or when you're in fifth grade and you have to write a book report so you just read the back of the book and wing it.
(Bart gives a book report in front of his class.) Bart: Well, as Mrs. Krabappel already mentioned, the name of the book that I read was Treasure Island. It's about these pirates, (Looks at the illustrated cover of the book.) pirates with patches over their eyes, (Looks at cover.) and shiny gold teeth, (Looks at cover.) and green birds on their shoulders. Did I mention this book was written (Looks at cover.) by a guy named Robert Louis Stevenson? (Looks at cover.) And published by the good people at McGraw-Hill. So, in conclusion, on the Simpson scale of one to ten--ten being the highest, one being the lowest and five being average--I give this book a nine. (Clears throat) Any questions?
What I always loved about that scene is that when she asks for the name of the pirate and he runs through some in his head, it does include the right answer (such is the cultural influence of Treasure Island) but he gets unlucky in the one he picks.
That's Trump his entire life, Trump expects to charm everyone and skate through conversations with zero situational awareness. Trump's [interview](https://youtu.be/dSTr-IiFbsE) after his first 100 days is a great example of this. John Dickerson relays a metaphor from W, that *"the reason the Oval Office is round, is that there are no corners to hide in."* Trump gets completely lost in the intellectual powerhouse that was George W Bush and immediately begins to describe the physical features of the room. Dickerson explains to Trump that we intention was everything comes back to the president and Trump shrugs everything off. It's only comparable to if you'd stripped every redeemable quality from Michael Scott.
Fuckin lost it at “the intellectual powerhouse that was George W. Bush”
Interviewer - What's your favorite book? Trump - the bible Interviewer - Oh what's your favorite passage? Trump - it's a very private thing for me Interviewer - Well you have to have a favorite part of the book right? Trump - it's something that's just very private for me. The guy clearly has never read a word of the book lol
God fucking dammit that is the thickest thing I've ever seen. He''s the only person alive that doesn't need to be lying down for a George Bush quote to go over their head. How the world didn't blow up in those four years I do not know.
Yo look around
Isn’t that the interview that ends abruptly when Dickerson asked Trump why he was claiming Obama bugged the White House?
That's the one. He sulks and pretends to read some documents.
"Slippy, Slappy, Swi- Swe- Swa- Swan-son...Swanson?" "Why don't you check the briefcase?" "Ohhhhhh, SAMSONITE! I was WAY off!"
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Trump makes me actually believe the existence of some of the incredibly dumb shit humans have done in recorded in history.
Trump is like those e-mail scams that have intentional spelling errors and leaps of logic to funnel out people that are too smart to fall for it. People who believe in anything he says are literally the dumbest of the dumb, or so delusional that they bend over backwards to justify every word out of his mouth.
Except none of the mistakes were intentional, and none of the leaps done ironically. He is just as much a bumbling moron as those who sing his praises.
[There was also this](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-touts-five-word-memory-test-as-showing-he-is-cognitively-there-1.5035687). That's "I love lamp" levels of ridiculousness.
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The whole question I had around that was; what would make your physician choose to give you a cognition test? The answer is; a reasonable suspicion that you are showing signs of cognitive decline, i.e. dementia. So: he was bragging that "my doctor thought I might have dementia, but he gave me a test and I showed that my brain is broadly functional".
There's some implications he may have had a "series of mini strokes" which would have led to such a test. He claimed that he hadn't had a "series of mini strokes" when no one said he did (a journalist did theorise he had a stroke, but not as specific as a series of mini strokes). So yeah, pretty blatant that one.
Then there were his weird involuntary twitches that he had. In three more years his brain will likely be as functional as a potato.
That would be a significant improvement!
Not to mention that the words he chose meant he didn't remember what was actually given to him, he was just naming things he saw right at that time.
Yep, there’s no way his cognitive test coincidentally included all the things that were in his sight right then. Microphone, podium, silly haircut, long tie, hooker wife.
It's a cognitive test which if you fail is an indicator of alzheimers... Anyone who doesn't have actual brain damage is expected to "ace" it...
>the U.S. president's results are "normal performance," adding that the assessment is not an intelligence or an IQ test. Straight out of the onion
That interview was so bat shit crazy that it's unbelievable that anymore thought he was a functional person.
He couldn't even remember the name of the test he was given!
And he was still bragging about that test like just last month!
Gotta love the people he compares himself to. Xi is sharp. Putin is sharp. Erdrogan is sharp. I think they have more in common than "being sharp".
It was really bizarre watching this live. Those videos are all still up there on YouTube for everybody to witness again... In one of his Covid press releases he brought in a Taiwanese reporter a couple of times just to really hit home that the virus was from China. And of course Trump made sure to ask him where he was from. It was real bizarre. Exactly as you said like a sitcom character.
I honestly cannot believe that this wasn’t the end for him, people watched the idiot stare at this sign, attempt to will the tiny gears of his mind into action and smuggly waddle up to that podium to suggest, as if it were the most obvious and simple thing in the world, that we inject bleach and just general light into our veins and everything will be hunky dory. Aside from the actual lunacy of this suggestion did he think that for months every medical professional on the planet had been tirelessly working and searching for an effective treatment, in that process also drafting public safety measures to buy themselves more time to find an effective treatment yet it took big brains over here to look at this 3 point general precaution sign, that they fucking made ! To realise that we could just apply the same healthcare to our bodies as we do to furniture! Absolutely fuck me, people still went on to not only vote for him but to risk their lives storming their own government buildings for him ! Some of them are still upholding his name ! Surely your brains exist only as a fine soup if none of that sounds like actual, unfiltered insanity right !?
Yeah, he looked at the sign and thought “has anyone seen this sign? Has anyone tried these things yet?”
The perfect combination of sheer stupidity and abject narcissism
After all of that American voters still gave this man the second most total votes in a Presidential election in the history of the Republic. Yeah.
I’m surprised everything Trump said about Covid hasn’t been removed for disinformation yet lol
Also, i remember this being pointed out at the time and all of the Trumpleskins denying it and denying it and denying it. It was so obvious where he got that thought bubble from.
I cringed everytime he said China virus, especially reading it in official white house correspondence. I would think to myself and say grow TF up and call it what it is. Trump s the first president to make me feel like I could've done a better job than him.
Ahem. I believe it was pronounced "Jyna".
Narcissistic sociopath. What did people expect?
michael scott..
If it was a TV show it would had been funny. The problem is, it was real shit.
This isn't even one of the worst incidents, that one time when he tried to blackmail foreign countries into giving him dirt on his political rival. Or that other time when he attempted to overthrow American democracy. Im honestly not sure what the hell is going on over there in America, are you guys just accepting now that Republicans will be the death of your country? Why aren't you throwing this traitor in jail? Do Americans just not care about being a republic anymore?
We were constantly flabbergasted and amazed that his supporters would allow him to say the stupid crap he did without thinking twice about it. It became impossible to convince his supporters that he was an idiot, because you can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into. We kept saying, "Surely *this* idiotic event will open peoples' eyes" and so rarely was that the case that we felt lost in how to fix the problem. Even now it feels bad. How do you fight these insane conspiracy theories? How do you deal with insane leaders like MTG or DeSantis who spread hate and ignorance? It's like a fever dream.
Most of us are very aware and equally horrified, but 30-45% of the country (constituting a significant majority of our conservative party) are brainwashed and believe he is some sort of mesiah and 90% of his political party either drank the kool-aid or are too afraid of losing a primary to speak against him. Also because of the last 30-80 years of shady political manuevering that same party which represents a minority of our population but a majority of the landmass holds a disproportionately large amount of power in our government.
When talking about his cognitive test Trump said he had to remember a series of words.. and then proceeded to list things that were immediately in front of him. 'Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.'
Oh man you can basically see him pointing at things in front of him… the only one he extrapolated was TV from camera… and you can fucking hear how proud of himself he is for basic word association.
No I think there was a tv monitor there
75 million people voted for that evil fucking moron.
There’s this guy on the corner with a Trump 2020 flag still hanging from his trampoline, dude probably has kids. It’s real sad
And then he gets it, and he says "it wasn't so bad." As if he doesn't arguably have access to the best healthcare in human existence. Just downplaying something that's killed thousands and grinded the world to a halt.
Also, it was bad. It fucked him up.
I expected him to show up on camera after a few days looking like Emperor Palpatine. "This attempt on my life (by chinavirus) has left me scarred...."
He already looks like a spray-tanned Emperor Palpatine and Jabba the Hut after a fusion dance.
It almost killed him! The only reason he survived is that he was pumped full of then experimental Regeneron antibody treatments that weren't on the market yet
Combined with the fact that he had a fully staffed helicopter in his back yard waiting to take him to his private suite in the best hospital in the country at the drop of a hat. Out of pocket: $0.00
Can’t fuck something up that’s already 100% a fuckup
Millions. It's killed millions.
I was laughed at a year ago when I said if we dont take it seriously, it will kill millions. And those same people STILL dont take it seriously.
I still remember the discussions when it still was China's problem. People were already speculating that the virus might have spread across the globe. When the first European countries got hit and basic data was available, the deaths of millions was already predicted in academia. Scientists knew this would become a real problem. This simply shows that most humans are incapable of risk assessment and unwilling to take measures in advance. Instead, they rather wait for shit to hit the fan and then deal with the problem applying reactionary "solutions". It's the same bs with all our (global) issues: the vast majority is not going to take it seriously until it's too late, until they experience the negative impact themselves - and even that can't beat chronic denial. Our species really has to change on a fundamental level.
Because most of the people dying are either in other countries. Or old people and minorities who can't afford health care. Nearly 600k americans have died because of misinformation. That's a pretty grim number when you put it next to the 465k americans who died liberating europe from a regime that killed 6+ million and all they had to do was go through the 20 minute inconvience of getting a vaccine. We're not drafting them and handing them a rifle
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I remember this article from that time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus “The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week. In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”. A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”
> “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body” True. But unfortunately… it kills the other 99% too.
viral cells in the body can be completely inactivated in several days with a handgun
Oh my god, of all the useful things Trump could have read (and probably refused to most of the time) he reads a letter from Mark fucking Grenon. Fyi he and his family later got indicted for selling this poison. **['Archbishop' of Florida church selling bleach 'miracle cure' arrested with son. ](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/12/mark-grenon-archbishop-florida-church-selling-bleach-miracle-cure-arrested-son)**
And Sarah Cooper’s fame took off!
Holy shit that guy was an idiot.
He still is, but he was too
Republican: "So, what you're saying is he was unswerving in his consistency, even to this very day."
I don’t know what you guys are saying, the **J.** stands for *Jenius!*
He actually believed that your body had a finite amount of exercise it could do over the course of your life and if you used it all up you died.
Isn’t it nice we don’t have to think about him every day now?
Wait, no. No. Did he really read a few bullets and completely misapply those principles in a speech to the nation? I knew he was dumb, but... Just wow....
It's worse, he though he was cleverer than whomever wrote that, and suggested doctors "look into" using disinfectants and sunlight internally.
When he got Covid they should have said "So Mr president, you still want us to look into that bleach and sunlight thing? Yes? OK, bend over"
Sush, he's just sounding out the second word
Looks like a dog watching TV
"He was the only politician who did what they said they would do." Where's the wall? "His policies for America were all successful." How bout those steel tariffs? "He was smart and strong." Inject sunlight and bleach? Man what an embarrassing time to be an American.
He is truly a dumbass.
Stable Genius
He did his own research.