So proclaimed our leader, using the same New Math he used to calculate his inauguration crowd.
Ya gotta love that guy! By the way, the population of Sri Lanka is between 20 and 25 million.
I have a theory about this. A lot of people think Trump is just careless or intellectually challenged. I disagree. I think he’s just manipulating us. I think he deliberately says “crazy shit” (to quote his former White House counsel) so the media, social media, pundits, late-night comics, and douchebags like me will concentrate on chasing micro-developments in these storylines, while ignoring all of his malignant schemes and his major failures in the realm of substantive policy issues. I think his theory is that everyone who discusses “covfefe” or “138 million” is someone who is not discussing his obstruction of justice, his lack of control over his subordinates, his lack of a coherent foreign policy, or his failure to work with lawmakers on either health care or immigration.
I may be giving him too much credit by thinking he’s cagey enough to use chaos as a strategy. Perhaps he’s just what he appears to be, a pathological liar and narcissist who has no control over his impulses, but I think it is dangerous to underestimate him. He was in the construction business in New York and New Jersey, sometimes underpaid his contractors, and is still alive, so you know he must have outstanding survival instincts.
Alternate theory, stay with me here, it’s a little outside the box:
He’s a blithering dotard with shit for brains.
Far-fetched, I know. But it sure would explain a lot.
Maam, I hope you are able to get off the drugs someday. Hang in there, we’re pulling for you!
Nope. The idiot/mastermind theory never works. The foundation of Bush derangement syndrome, it didn’t work with Reagan (when SNL did a hilarious script with Reagan being a homey simpleton when people are in the oval office and a total gang boss controlling all evil in the world when they leave) and it shouldn’t work here.
He’s a moron. His plans fail constantly, he says and does stupid things that cost him and work against his plans, and it’s commonly known he’s barely literate.
I think that if Trump was smart, he would have a moderately well organized, obedient, and at at least minimally competent staff. (They might not be highly competent because A) I think competent people make Trump feel bad and B) highly competent people would probably hate working for Trump But above all, they would be obedient).
If Trump had such a thing, the US would be in much bigger trouble than it is, because Trump would be able to get his orders carried, and would have been able to fill the many positions he had left empty with people who might only be moderately competent but would be die-hard supporters of his agenda (incoherent as that is). Betsy de Vos is an example of what I mean – if Trump was actually smart, there would be many more like her in high offices in Washington.
No, I can believe that Trump WAS smart, 40 or 30 or maybe even 20 years ago. But not now. Now he just thinks he is.