Definition of imbecile:
1 : the quality or state of being imbecile or an imbecile
2 a : utter foolishness; also : futility
b : something that is foolish or nonsensical
Here are just a few of the many reasons that definition fits Donald:
Trump couldn’t remember the date of the 9/11 attack
Here is that speech from April of last year where he called on the spirit of 7/11.
This is what happens when he writes things down, mind you. God only knows what would have come out if he had been winging it.
It’s a little thing, but at the same time it’s a big thing. I mean, if you had to pick one fact you would expect a president to get right – .
This is the man who is promising to destroy all the terrorists, bomb the shit out of them, and he literally can’t get the first thing about terrorism right.
Let’s pray he doesn’t mistake Mesa for Mosul. Try and imagine what ISIS thought when they saw that clip. Maybe something like this?
He thinks 4 justices make a majority on the Supreme Court
I remember laughing at a bit in an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. Some Wall Street types had gotten the idea that Jed Clampett was a financial genius.
“His nephew, Jethro, is a regular Einstein. He's developed a whole new math where 2 and 2 come out 5.”
Pretty stupid, huh? Only on an old-fashioned comedy show would you hear a claim like that.
Okay, so there are nine justices on the United States Supreme Court. Majority means more than half, so it takes five justices voting together to make a majority, five against four. At the moment there are only eight justices, but the same number holds true. It still takes five votes to make a 5-3 majority. Four votes means a tie.
Back in June the Supreme Court ruled against abortion restrictions in Texas. It was a 5-3 majority of the eight justice court. Here is what Donald said about that on Mike Gallagher’s radio show:
Trump: Now if we had Scalia was living or Scalia was replaced by me, you wouldn’t have had that. Okay? It would have been the opposite.
Gallagher: So just to confirm…under a Donald — a President Donald Trump-appointed Supreme Court, you wouldn’t see a majority ruling like the one we had with the Texas abortion law this week.”
Trump: No, you wouldn’t see that. And people understand that.
That’s not a joke. That’s what he said.
Donald Jethro Trump thinks 3 + 1 = 5.
He wants to be president and take charge of the nation’s economy, and he cannot even do simple math.
Putin in Ukraine
Back in at the end of July, during an appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Trump promised Vladimir Putin would never go into the Ukraine:
He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.
Wow! What a man, what a leader, what a great future president –so clear, so emphatic, so decisive. And so wrong.
"Well, he's already there, isn't he?" Stephanopoulos gently pointed out.
Try and imagine what Putin thought when he saw that clip. No wonder he’s so anxious to see Donald elected.
Trump says as soon as gets into the Oval Office the first thing he’s going to do is take care of our enemies all around the world. Well, the second thing. The first thing will be to get someone who knows what’s really going on to explain it all to him.
He can’t even remember who he’s running against
When Hillary chose Virginia ex-governor Tim Kaine as her running mate in July Trump wasted no time tearing into him:
Her running mate Tim Kaine, who by the way did a terrible job in New Jersey — first act he did in New Jersey was ask for a $4 billion tax increase and he was not very popular in New Jersey and he still isn’t.
It turned out he was thinking of former governor of New Jersey Tom Kean. Oops!
Donald says he knows more about handling people than anyone else in the world. That is, once he gets past the first step of figuring out who he is supposed to be dealing with. I hear his first action after being sworn in will be to threaten Ken Jeong about his nuclear missile program.
He thinks the National Enquirer is the same as the National Security Agency.
In April the National Enquirer published a picture on their front page they claimed showed Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, standing on the street next to Lee Harvey Oswald months before the assassination. Donald treated that story like it came straight out of the Warren report. After Rafael Cruz criticized him Trump made it an official part of his campaign.
"You know, his father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being -- you know, shot," Trump told "Fox and Friends" Tuesday. "I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. What is this? Right prior to his being shot and nobody even brings it up. I mean, they don't even talk about that. That was reported and nobody talks about it. I mean what was he doing with - what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, I mean, before the shooting? It's horrible.”
That wasn’t just a flash in the pan. He repeated it and went even further two months later, right after Cruz didn’t endorse him at the convention.
All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer, there’s a picture of him [Rafael Cruz] and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast,” Trump said. “I had nothing to do with it. This was a magazine that frankly in many respects, should be very respected. They got O.J. They got Edwards. They got this. I mean, if that was The New York Times, they would have gotten Pulitzer prizes for their reporting.”
I know this is going to offend the millions of people who God only knows why actually believe the tabloids, but I don't care. Yes, it's true the Enquirer has been known once or twice to publish genuine news. Those times were exceptions, accidents. No person with anything approaching a normal level of common sense would believe anything a tabloid says unless it has been confirmed independently by more reliable sources.
Just ask Donald this:
A tabloid made an accusation about Ted Cruz's father. Tabloids have also been making accusations against you for decades. Are the tabloids reliable or not? You tell us, Mr. Trump.
He thinks we can uncover all the secret terrorists by asking a couple of questions.
He says he is going to root out all the spies and killers sneaking into our country using something he called "extreme vetting”. This is how he described it to Willie Geist back in December:
The relevant comment comes at the 15 minute mark
Geist: And a customs agent would ask the person his or her religion?
Trump: That would be probably - They would say ‘Are you Muslim?’
Geist: And if they said yes they would not be allowed in the country?
Trump: That is correct.
That’s not a joke. That’s what he said.
All right, Mr. Trump, let’s see if we can explain how things work in the real world. Secret terrorists aren't going to be walking through the streets wearing turbans and shouting "Alluh akbar!" They'll shave off their beards and put on cowboy hats with American flag stickers on them. They'll be wearing cammo hunting vests with NRA logos front and back, and they'll be singing 'God Bless America,' right up to the moment they whip open their vests to set off the suicide bombs underneath.
Extreme vetting??! Try extreme cluelessness.
He thinks he is the first person who ever figured anything out
Those who grew up during the cold war and the space race might remember that it used to be a running joke about the Russians, how they claimed to be the first to do anything that ever happened. Long-time Star Trek fans might recall Chekhov’s comment about quadrotriticale: “It was a Russian invention.”
Yet another thing Trump has in common with Putin, I guess. No matter what the subject, he always says he was there before anyone else.
I know you don’t want to spend the weeks it would take to go through every ridiculous claim he’s made so I’ll only give one example. Here’s a quote from the first Republican presidential debate:
“So, if it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration, Chris. You wouldn’t even be talking about it. This was not a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement.”
Do I need to explain what’s wrong with that statement? If you have some spare time, try and see how many other examples you can come up with.
doesn’t know what day the election is
This was just last month. Trump was in Florida urging his supporters to vote:
Go and register. Make sure you get out and vote, November 28.
The correct date is November 8, by the way. I went and googled it so you won’t have to.
This is like the first item on the list. It’s a little thing, but a basic thing, something that after a year of campaigning he should be able to get right without even thinking.
He thinks every person in America is blind, deaf, and gullible as a 3-year old child.
He spends 90 minutes sniffling in front of the whole country and then says it was a sabotaged microphone. Like nobody could see what he did.
He says not paying taxes makes him smart. Then he denies ever saying it without the slightest hesitation. Like nobody could hear what he said.
He says according to the CBS poll he won the first debate, but CBS never took a poll. Like he can just make up things on the spot and everybody is supposed to believe him.
Again, we don’t have weeks to spend on this. How many of these can you come up with by yourself without thinking too hard?
It would take months to list all the things that Trump gets wrong. Life is short. Let’s cut to the chase.
Donald Trump is an imbecile. That is a fact, not an opinion.
All of the things above and the hundred others we don’t have time to get to, all of those are things that imbeciles say and do.
If you don’t like the word imbecile or the definition I chose, then look up other words and other definitions. Let me give you some help.
He is dumb, he is stupid, he is mentally incompetent. He has no thinking skills, he has no reasoning ability, he has no common sense. He is a nincompoop, he is a pea-brain, he is a maroon.
if you compare all the different words and their definitions you will notice they all have one thing in common.
They all describe Donald Trump.
There’s a dumb old wise old saying that some people like to repeat: They couldn't say it if it wasn't true.
Trump of all people knows better than that. You can make any kind of stupid or crazy claim you want as long as no one calls you on it. Even if some one does, so what? It's not officially a lie until they prove it in court.
Donald is a "super salesman". He’s made a career out of saying stupid things and making crazy claims and getting away with it because most people can't afford to take him to court. They weren't born with a rich daddy's money.
Nehemiah Persoff had a line I liked in an old Gilligan’s Island episode: "Are you going to believe your eyes or me?"
God help us if we haven't got an honest-to-life Gilligan running for the leader of the free world, and tens of millions of people are taking him seriously. Every reporter keeps asking Trump how is he going to keep all his promises, what is he going to do to exactly, and all they can get out of him is “dis, dat, and de udder t’ing.” (Ibid, Gilligan’s Island)
How about it, voters of America? Are you going to believe your own eyes, your own ears, your own memories of things you saw and heard Donald do and say your own actual selves?
Or do you want to change your baseball cap for a Gilligan hat?
Mr President
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* Some Trump supporters might think imbecile is too fancy a word, too elitist, like
I'm putting on airs. What I mean is Trump is full-on stone-cold stupid.
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