He really is even dumber than we thought

[dawg day]

Charlie Pierce on glimpses from the Woodward book:
How to lower the national debt:

"Just run the presses — print money," Trump said, according to Woodward, during a discussion on the national debt with Gary Cohn, former director of the White House National Economic Council.

He honestly thought you could just print the $20 trillion and wipe out the debt.

I don't understand how he could have run a business and not have heard of "inflation."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23333592/president-trump-wall-sahara-desert-silent-bombs-print-money/

[democratisphere]

1. At least now we know how he went bankrupt 5 times and America

will make it 6.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Donnie is running a con.

He has zero clue as to how real business is run. He is running a Mob Ponzi and as long as there are suckers who donate to his so called Campaign,what the heck. After all,it is free money.

[Grasswire2]

3. MSNBC reported tonight that he asked the military why they don't make SILENT BOMBS

...so targeted people won't run away as the bombs start falling.

[NanceGreggs]

4. Somehow ...

... I was naive enough to think that "being dumber than we thought" wasn't even possible.

[Doreen]

6. Never underestimate the power of dumb.

[rusty quoin]

5. He is the nightmare we deserve, I guess.

We didn’t do it necessarily, but we added to it.

I don’t know why we didn’t continue on with FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, and Carter policies. They were right.

I want them.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. This is amazing ... absolutely amazing! rump continues to amaze me w/ just how dumb he ...

really truly is! It really makes you wonder WTF he's been doing besides going bankrupt and running those businesses into the ground?

Did he go to some kind of school on how to get even more dumber than he was? I think we all know what's he has been doing with himself, and that quite literally is truly disgusting.

Pathetic and sad.

[tazkcmo]

8. No he isn't.

He's dumber than this, too. This river of stupidity has yet to crest.

[BeckyDem]

9. No kidding, I have wondered if Trump could recite the alphabet without pausing.

He does have a sharp sense of reading a crowd. It reminds me of the skill a bullshit, con artist learns. He is "smart" that way. How he managed through his classes in college I am suspicious about.

[FakeNoose]

12. Probably paid people to take his tests and write his papers

After all, studying is for suckers!

[Nitram]

10. Trump really thinks the US government is a scam operation.

[lagomorph777]

11. It is, while he's running it.

[Nitram]

13. Well, he's trying without 100% success. For one thing, the FBI is investigating him...