Donald Trump's ignorance is becoming more evident with each passing day

[babylonsister]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/donald-trumps-ignorance-evident-by-the-day?CMP=fb_us

Donald Trump's ignorance is becoming more evident with each passing day
David Cay Johnston

It’s laughable when pundits try to distill a Trump doctrine from his word salad. His own words illuminate the undeveloped space between his ears
donald trump

Monday 8 May 2017 08.45 EDT
Last modified on Monday 8 May 2017 10.08 EDT


Let’s connect the dots between Donald Trump’s “tax plan”, his invitation to the murderous leader in Manila and saying he would be “honored” to meet with the dictator of North Korea. And let’s throw in his claim that Trumpcare will be better than Obamacare and that his skeletal tax plan would make him pay more.

While these facts might seem unrelated, each points to a fundamental truth about Trump that I have been trying to get people to understand since he announced his latest presidential campaign in June 2015: Trump doesn’t know anything.

And Trump’s ignorance should scare you because the White House says he plans to fulfill all of his campaign promises – and among them is starting wars and using nuclear weapons.

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Candidate Trump vowed he would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act upon taking office. He insists the Republican replacement proposals are better, showing his cluelessness about immoral changes that would not just make health insurance unaffordable for tens of millions, but would cause needless suffering and premature death. He is also unaware or untroubled by how gutting Obamacare to make way for Trumpcare would grant him and his super-rich peers a trillion dollars of additional tax cuts.

Trump’s own words illuminate the undeveloped space between his ears. When political strategists and pundits try to distill a Trump doctrine from his word salad, I often find myself laughing at their folly.

Trump’s own words show he is utterly unprepared for the job of city council member, yet he possesses the nuclear launch codes. Ignorance is not bliss, but death and disaster waiting for the right mix of circumstances.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Leaves me wondering how much of his ignorance is willful...

and how much innate?

Doesn't really matter one way or the other, I guess. It's the ignorance of his followers that is a real problem these days.

They'll believe anything he says.

[uponit7771]

8. Very few of it, he's pretty mentally lazy ... not the kind of person you'd want watching kids etc

[Wellstone ruled]

2. We now know how a person who

is a Malignant Narcissists stumbles through life.

[geek tragedy]

3. he's a dumbfuck ignoramus, and lots and lots of dumbfuck ignoramuses

voted for him precisely because he was like them.

[Martin Eden]

9. They relate to him ...

... even though this rich fuck lives in a different world, has never experienced their pain, and he only cares about their votes & adulation.

[geek tragedy]

10. he talks like them and has the same inability to grasp complex subjects, which

makes him seem authentic to them.

It's depressing, but his stupidity is an electoral asset in this country. Idiocracy really was a documentary.

[dalton99a]

4. He's worse than a fifth grader

[Solly Mack]

5. But they try so hard to turn Trump into something he will never be

It’s laughable when pundits try to distill a Trump doctrine from his word salad. His own words illuminate the undeveloped space between his ears

and he will never be fit to govern.

[Johonny]

6. The GOP plan was to pass everything they wanted but were afraid the voters would remember

and then hang it on Trump. They don't care if Trump leaves office with 20 percent approval and the hatred of all Americans. They just want their tax cuts and don't care who dies to get them.

Trump, the suckers sucker, is being roped along for the ride. He's lazy and blows with the wind and they know it.

[moondust]

7. If you know you'll never need a job

then why bother to learn anything? Learnin' stuff is hard work! Better to just hire somebody to do everything for you. Goof around, inherit millions, gamble it away, win some and lose some, pretend your money makes you a God, become President. The American Dream.

[singed.dude]

11. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[Moostache]

12. I loathe everything about Donald J. Trump and what he has done to this nation.

But I save a special place in my hatred for the GOP and in particular McConnell and Ryan.

Trump is a moron, barely capable of forming coherent sentences and thoughts when left to his own devices. He is an imbecile of the highest order and unfit to manage my lawn care, let alone my nation and the ecological fate of the planet. However, he literally does not know any better...which distinguishes him from the aforementioned cretins, Messers McConnell and Ryan.

They KNOW better, they just don't CARE. That level of scumbaggery is unbelievable. THEY own Trump in my eyes and in 2018 I will make it my life's mission to make sure that everyone with a vote and a pulse on election day remembers this.

[pansypoo53219]

13. channel surfing teevee brain.