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Trump Didn't Know What Pearl Harbor Was And Couldn't Read The Constitution (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 23 OP
The gist Cirsium Feb 23 #1
Thank you. That's helpful. Qutzupalotl Feb 23 #3
My pleasure Cirsium Feb 23 #4
When Trump insulted Rex Tillerson's intelligence, MENSA offered to monitor an IQ test for Trump. Norrrm Feb 23 #2
When Elon talks about how uneducated American workers are he's thinkin of the one he hired as POTUS Attilatheblond Feb 23 #5
he was dim donnie as a kid. pansypoo53219 Monday #6
Don't y'all understand; we must CELEBRATE Ignorance now. MagaSmash Monday #7

Cirsium

(1,859 posts)
1. The gist
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:08 PM
Feb 23

Excerpt from A Very Stable Genius, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig:

“Hey, John, what’s this all about? What’s this a tour of?” Mr Trump reportedly asked John Kelly, his then-chief of staff, when they took a private tour in 2017 of the USS Arizona Memorial, a ship commemorating the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War.

"Trump had heard the phrase 'Pearl Harbor' and appeared to understand that he was visiting the scene of a historic battle, but he did not seem to know much else," write the authors, who quote a former White House adviser concluding the US president was “dangerously uninformed”.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pearl-harbor-new-book-very-stable-genius-b2700639.html

And...

When Mr Trump early in his tenure agreed to feature in an HBO documentary in which all living presidents read from the constitution, Mr Trump blamed others in the room when he struggled to read the text. "It's like a foreign language,” he allegedly complained.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pearl-harbor-new-book-very-stable-genius-b2700639.html

Cirsium

(1,859 posts)
4. My pleasure
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:29 PM
Feb 23

Who has time to watch all of these videos, most of which don't have much to say? I see a lot of what the liberal vloggers are doing as grifting, sensationalistic headlines, and taking forever to get to the point, forcing the viewer to wade through their blathering. The point is usually a couple of sentences from someone else's reporting, as is the case with this one.

Norrrm

(583 posts)
2. When Trump insulted Rex Tillerson's intelligence, MENSA offered to monitor an IQ test for Trump.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:13 PM
Feb 23

When Trump insulted Rex Tillerson's intelligence, MENSA offered to monitor an IQ test for Trump.

Donald was smart enough to not accept their offer.
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When you try to ridicule someone's intelligence..........


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