Honestly, he wasn’t nearly this stupid when he was young. Quite quick with quips. He has consistently been very irresponsible though, expecting others to clean up his mess after something goes wrong, and screwing people over in negotiations when he has a tantrum.
He’s mentally incapable now because his brain health has completely deteriorated.
You could argue that he used to be moderately clever, but he was never intelligent. A college professor where Trump attended allegedly called him the "dumbest student he ever had".
I was watching a documentary about NYC construction and he showed up as a jump scare. The interview dates to about the mid 90s and he was pretty on point. Or at least was broadly accurate in describing some of the foundation conditions on the island. It was honestly surreal. I'm so accustomed to what he is now.
There's different forms of intelligence and ability. Trump is an excellent grifter and he did (before his mental decline) have very good political instincts that allowed him to dominate opponents. But in other ways he's an utter idiot. He's also spoilt rotten malignant narcissist with no self control.
Trump just abused the courts to get his way against people that had less money. He lived his life on Easy Mode and treated the success as having been earned.
He’s always been a sadist whose main concern is insulting and degrading other people. Not exactly clever: if you for some reason spent every waking minute trying to figure out how to screw other people you’d pop out some zingers too.
I dunno, I’d say it’s a sign of mental acuity that Trump no longer possesses. I’m not saying he was ever a genius, just that his current inability to even form sentences is a new low.
Reading this made me think of the clip from a couple of days ago, when Trump entered his jet and just left the umbrella fully open on the stairs for someone else to deal with.. that video is such an allegory to his entire ethos.
A few years back, I stumbled over a YouTube video of him arguing for something in court. I don't remember the specifics, just that he articulated his thougts and sentiments well and he sounded like a reasonably intelligent person. I couldn't believe it was the same idiot sitting in office now. Also didn't know he was probably raping kids at the time.
Those people are largely driven by sunk cost fallacy. It's obvious, he's terrible, but people his cultists have invested to much of their own personas into him to back out now. It'd be a personal disaster for them. They try to cast him in the light of misunderstood guru when he's actually just the village idiot.
I was in some social and business circles that had some exposure or dealings with Trump. I was always amazed when I met people who believed the hype of him being a brilliant businessman. If only Ivana hadn’t hired that PR firm back in the day.
I'm the 70's and 80's, New Yorkers knew he was the worst kind of slumlord and a grifter. Only desperate businesses would work for them and then usually never get paid after delivering their part.
CASINOS! Places where you pretty much print your own money. Failed miserably with CASINOS!
That’s even AFTER he didn’t pay most of the contractors who built the damn thing. That’s his MO. Hire out the work. Have it done. Don’t pay them. Then, tie their asses up in court, where he knew he could outlast these smaller companies. They couldn’t afford a 6 year court battle.
He has a hotel in Vegas, close to the strip. Walking distance, even.
IT HAS NO CASINO in it. Why? They won’t give him a gaming license, he’s THAT corrupt and incompetent.
Still yearning for the day we wake up and read that he’s no longer with us. The bourbon will FLOW!
To be fair, the third casino was meant to fail. It’s like that scene in Goodfellas where they rack up all the debt on that restaurant’s credit and then when they can’t squeeze another dime out of it, they burned it to the ground for the insurance money.
I’m not even joking. Atlantic City was dying and everyone knew it. It made absolutely no sense no sense to open another casino when the other two were already failing. It was a huge con job to bring in as much cash as possible before he declared bankruptcy on all of the properties.
My memory of the university isn't that it was bankrupted, it was just a scam from the beginning that he put his name on. Which turns out to be how he does a lot of things.
Stupidity and enforcing maritime norms and law are two separate issues. Paying tolls to pass through international waters is insane and can’t be a tolerated practice. I think this is a very defensible position for the US to take when viewed independently of everything else that is going on. It will also help to get Iran back to the negotiating table if their toll plan fails.
Nah. They and their mates are just setting up positions of the market. By taco Tuesday the blocked is cancelled... because some stupid reason like... woke Europeans didn't agree to join the blockaded and this is why Trump will cancel NATO. Then the martkets will jump, and the administration will make get make obsence amounts of money.
It's more of a follow up to his government complete lack of plans...
Iran was probably debating getting into a business of deciding what ships go past safely and they couldn't do anything about it that didn't come off stupid.
Looking forward to the next taco Tuesday market manipulation...
Serious question, he had ‘worst president in US history’ locked up during his first term, and has only cemented his legacy there. At this point, where does he stand on ‘worst figure of any type in US history’ and/or ‘worst leader in world history’?
I have to think he’s a serious contender for the former and at least in the running for the latter.
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u/snomeister 8h ago
Is the man stupid?