'In my great and unmatched wisdom': Trump makes modest claim about his intellect

It’s sad that the president is a troll.

Oh how the right has fallen.

 

Any of Clinton, Biden or Warren are FAR SUPERIOR to Trump in everyday human values & behaviors. All three have dedicated their lives to making a positive difference in America as a humane nation in some way or another. Sure, they have had failures, & made mistakes. They're human. But Trump is the most intensely selfish, self-centered, arrogant individual to ever pollute the Oval Office. Trump has no redeeming qualities. I am constantly stunned to see 38% of American voters continuing to support him after everything he's done that assaults every decent human value I can think of. It has forced me to re-evaluate my own assumptions regarding the intelligence level & the values Americans really believe in. For that 38%, the values I was taught to value in my own life, seem to be missing, & America is becoming a very different place because of it.

Trump's latest pronouncement on Syria, is rapidly dissolving everything America's leaders & military have won working together over the past couple or three decades. Trump never attempts to imagine how his actions will impact those involved. His abandonment of the Kurds, or closest & most loyal friends in the Middle East, is an atrocious decision that will impact the honor, integrity & trustworthiness of America in foreign minds for decades or even generations to come. Trump is like a bull in a china shop when it comes to foreign relations. He's effectively killing every friendly relationship with democratic societies America has enjoyed for generations around the world. And he's doing it intentionally. Who will want to be America's friend after Trump? Just the authoritarian countries. And they are about as dependable as friends as Trump himself.

 

First of all, I wouldn't put much faith in any MSN poll whether it be Fox or CNN or whatever. But your main interest is what I mean by preferable leadership qualities by the majority of American voters. "Putting someone in their place" or "not taking shyt from anyone" is the American yardstick standard of being admirable. There is nothing Americans love more than to tell stories of how they "told someone off". In that respect, Trump is the envy of most (majority) of the American population.

 

So much negativity on the left.

 

trump is constantly praised by trolling, “triggering”, or purposefully upsetting the left. It’s one of the sole reasons several have identified as why they are going to vote for him in 2020.

Do you think the “left” is going to be positive while being treated in such a manner?

 

Don't know. Don't care.

 

I'm not sure what you're basing your opinion on. It's certainly not been my experience, but I don't have any statistics to prove it. I guess this can be an "agree to disagree" situation unless you have statistics to prove otherwise.

 

"Statistics"? Honest observation plus world experience are all that is needed to see the dissimilarities in national character.

 

Exactly

 

So, in your anecdotal experience Americans, in general, tend to have a good impression of people who have an "I put them in their place attitude"? I could certainly understand having that impression reading this forum, but my "honest observation" and "world experience" give me a different impression. I'm sorry that your experiences have given you that impression. Mine haven't.

 

I do no think honest observation can be called "anecdotal". Either I have observed the behaviour or I haven't. If I have then it is factual if I haven't then it is something else. And, as I say, in the context of worldly experience that particular behaviour stands out.

 

It's easier to "tell someone off" or "put someone in their place" if you're rich & don't fear the consequences of that action on your job or source of income. Trump never had to face that dilemma, so never had any fear for repercussions from any of his actions. Every day he demonstrates his inability to foresee the impacts or ripple effects of his Presidential decisions, as well as his insensitivity toward the pain some of those decisions have on others. I'm not one of those Americans who admire or envy those who are crass enough to go around telling others off. I strive to be the opposite. But I am grateful for your post because it does identify a quality of America I was not personally tuned in to, & I see how important it is to see & recognize these motives in politics. So, even though your point makes me cringe & gag, thank you for your insight.

 

This forum is about politics and, since politics is humanity at its worst, he is seeing american's at their worst. Judging people by their politics is ill advised to say the least.

 

I believe you about his privileged life and yes that makes sense. I think the worst part is that when all is said and done ... and Trump is strutting through the china cabinet with his shoes unlaced ... I still think he was the better choice in the election that put him where he is. Hillary Clinton is just plain scary and I reckon if she were "in office" your sons would be dying in the Ukraine, Iran, and Syria right now. She is the female version of Bush Baby Jr.

 

Seriously, what kind of person even says things like that? Sounds like something a Roman emperor would say just before naming his horse a consul. Either completely delusional or losing his sanity or both. I don't know how the right can continue to take this man seriously.

 

Trump grew up in a very weird family. His grandfather was a draft dodger from Germany who set up a brothel in Alaska. He thinks everyone is as stupid and crooked as he is.

 

Trump is a lot like Ghaddafi if Ghaddafi had had a high school education.

 

LOl, True..... a lot like Tony Soprano if Tony had had been born with developmental disability and a speech impediment

 

One who likes to trigger his opposition.

 

I like Evan...

Evan McMullin - Wikipedia
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Overview

David Evan McMullin (born April 2, 1976) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer who ran as an independent during the 2016 United States presidential election.

McMullin was an operations officer of the CIA from 2001–2010. He then worked for about a year and a half as an investment banker after receiving an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He was a senior adviser on national security issues for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2013–2015, and served as a chief policy director for the House Republican Conference in the U.S. …

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He is of average intelligence. Trump has fabricated this story about himself that he is a genius even going so far as to promote a very high IQ. But there is no proof of his intelligence and he certainly has not shown much intelligence while POTUS.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trumps-intelligence-quotient/

 

Sure he knew. That's why he said it. It's so easy to mess with these people.

 

How does making a fool of oneself make a monkey out of another?

 

This is a typical conservative fare. Say something stupid or hate filled, get called in it, then claim they were just joking.

 

Perhaps you live with conservatives.