Trump really has no idea who Frederick Douglass was

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Trump always talks like a 5th grader reporting on a book he didn't read...

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3. like his statement about Abraham Lincoln

[Charles Bukowski]

11. My goodness, that's painful.

Trump is complete idiot.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. Wow..just awful. n/t

[sarge43]

20. Compared to him, Snow Twinkie is a brilliant rhetorician n/t

[logosoco]

22. I am laughing so hard at this!

But then I stop and feel like crying!!!
I think my 9 year old grandson could say something better than that!! And he has barely studied history!

[alterfurz]

34. in the immortal words of Gerald R. Ford...

..."If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave."

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. Reemember those 3rd grade book reprots by kids who never read the book??? n/t

[Freethinker65]

5. And neither does Betsy DeVos

And soon most kids educated in public schools will have the same lack of knowledge

[True Dough]

30. The "leader" of the free world, ladies and gentlemen!

We're screwed. We're so screwed. Ethically bankrupt and an empty head to go with it.

[Sanity Claws]

2. There is a Frederick Douglass Boulevard in NYC

But it is in Harlem. I'm sure he never goes there.
But how could someone who was a US citizen and educated here not have an idea who Frederick Douglass was. Or at least not know that he lived in the 19th century.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Couldn't he at least Google the name n/t

[rurallib]

16. think he can use the googles?

I thought only exceptional republicans like W used the googles

[left-of-center2012]

41. You're right, of course

Trump doesn't need Google.
He's told us he has the best brain in the world.

[dalton99a]

6. Douglass is also being recognized by U.S. Americans

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21. US Americans... Instead of Central, North, or South Americans?

Seems kind of funny to say US Americans. Pretty much everyone knows you are talking about people from US when you say Americans.

[suffragette]

24. I think the reference is to her answer on this video

https://m.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

27. Sounds like she got speech lessons from Trump. lol n/t

[Friend or Foe]

29. Or vice versa! nt

[Vinca]

35. So which cabinet position will she be filling?

[sailfla]

7. Did you hear the joke

Two corinthians walk into a bar and....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. He probably thinks he's two guys named Frederick and Douglas. nt

[murielm99]

23. He thinks "they" are a law firm,

or a business.

[ecstatic]

10. Trump may have inadvertently raised a good point...

I wonder if he's familiar with this quote:



You really can't make this shit up.

[onetexan]

15. In deed, and "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

This is our struggle - we need to press on against such stunning stupidity.

[volstork]

25. Here's another one that's pretty pertinent:

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
--Frederick Douglass

[alterfurz]

36. Douglass, Kafka and alterfurz

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will....find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. -- Frederick Douglass

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. -- Kafka

In their defense, you can't say that the current incarnation of feudal lords aren't doing everything in their power to help the peasants find out their Douglass limit, and reach that Kafkaesque point. -- alterfurz

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. My guess it they showed him a picture and he thought it was Don King (nt)

[blm]

14. heheheheh

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[Grammy23]

32. If his staff made a bulleted memo on Douglass

with some facts and a few quotes, he would not bother to read it. So he finds himself in the uncomfortable position of pulling facts out of his ass. He placed himself there so he deserves all the derision he is going to get over his boneheaded remarks at his "little breakfast." At moments like that I'd like to slap him up side of his pumpkin head!! But instead, I will just leave this here:

[SticksnStones]

13. He was saying Frederick Douglass but thinking Kirk Douglas

I'm sure of it.

Dementia can do that to a person.

[Martin Eden]

17. Frederick who?

... oh, it's the avatar dude!

[rurallib]

18. probably thinks he was some worker he stiffed on a payment for work

[SoCalNative]

26. And pretty sure that if you mentioned Harriet Tubman

he's think she was the CEO of a hot tub company

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. No, he would think she was the WIFE of the CEO. n/t

[Sneederbunk]

28. No, he did not play second base for the Phillies

[etherealtruth]

31. Malevolent, ignorant, buffoon

Does this "man" know anything about anything. He displays an astonishing level of ignorance ...related to almost every subject.

[applegrove]

33. He's obviously not getting briefed on what is in his speeches.

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. He ignored national security briefings

Why would he pay attention to any others?

[Mendocino]

39. Trump thinks Frederick Douglas

was the name of the father on My Three Sons.

[milestogo]

42. Trump thought Obama was the first black man to come to the White House.

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