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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEric Trump is dumber than a box of rocks (tweet):
Link to tweet
The irony of an ABC reporter (whose parent company Disney has profited nearly half a billion dollars on the movie Pocahontas) inferring that the name is offensive is truly staggering to me.
9:04 AM - 28 Nov 2017 from Manhattan, NY
Maeve
(42,223 posts)Box of rocks, bag of hammers...how many ways to describe this level of stupid?
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)Your Mr. Potato Head mouth is on upside-down.
See...Mr. Potato Head out of context is not insulting, it's the way it's used.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)He apparently meant the latter but said the former.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)Synonyms of dumb
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, stupid, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
Words Related to dumb
cretinous, feebleminded, simpleminded
boobish, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)I think I will go for either dunderheaded or gormless.
You know that you follow politics too much when "...dippy, dotty..." brings to mind Sean Spicer (lol, I wonder if anyone will get this).
Sorry, I have lurked until now...
Spicer's crusade against Dippin Dots is so strange!
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)A lifetime supply of:
blugbox
(951 posts)How can I have a lifetime supply when Dippin Dots are clearly NOT the ice cream of the future!?
Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)Although, not as strange as 45 and his family.
Hey stranger, Welcome to DU as a poster. I lurked a long time too.
Thanks Yonnie3! I don't know why my first post was about Dippin' Dots though haha
gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)FSogol
(45,355 posts)marble falls
(56,358 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,647 posts)demmiblue
(36,743 posts)I follow him on Twitter... he is hilarious! Some of his late night tweets (I saw a few of the deleted ones).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Frederick Douglas" makes an attempt to explain it to the poor, dim bulb:
"If I am talking about you and I say, "oh, its Eric Trump" - not offensive.
If I see some person (not you) on the street with a fucked up looking face and teeth and say "Hey, are you Eric Trump?" - offensive 5/
Pachamama
(16,873 posts)Best reply and analogy ever....
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)Link to tweet
I never knew about this lie. Then again, most of his life as he describes it is a lie.
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-told-the-world-he-was-of-swedish-ancestry---but-its-a-lie-2016-8/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)pretending to be anything other than no good fucking thieves while at the same time lying to the public, profiting from their ill gotten positions, is precious.