As we are all aware, trump had one of his “stream of consciousness” rambling fact-free interviews with Washington Post journalists Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey on Monday. It touched upon a host of topics including climate change and the economy. Rucker later summarized the interview as “Trump’s rules of engagement: Boasting, spinning and running out the clock”. We think the following statement is a better explanation of trump-think —
I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.
Come to think out it, this is pretty much the go-to line for most conservatives — who needs brains when you have guts? GWB used that line too. The entire conservative philosophy comes from the stinking innards of the bloated microbe-infested gut. Factoid: They do have larger guts than brains.
This statement is quite revealing too —
We have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers.
It reveals the deep level of insecurity among conservatives, always boasting that their guts endow them with great intelligence. But their “intelligence” is about cultish beliefs, not facts or science or math. And their world is divided into “we” vs “them”.
And this -
I’m not blaming anybody. I’m just saying, I’m not happy with the Fed.
Being a good conservative means never accepting responsibility; the buck always stops elsewhere, generally with their ”enemies”. Gutless.
Here are a few doozies on climate change denial —
You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean. But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when you look at South America, and when you look at many other places in this world, including Russia, including — just many other places — the air is incredibly dirty. And when you’re talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over. I mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows, and we say where does this come from.
Translation: There is a no climate problem, but small oceans and Chinese garbage get the blame.
On forest fires -
you go to other places where they have denser trees — it’s more dense, where the trees are more flammable — they don’t have forest fires like this, because they maintain. And it was very interesting, I was watching the firemen, and they’re raking brush — you know the tumbleweed and brush, and all this stuff that’s growing underneath. It’s on fire, and they’re raking it, working so hard, and they’re raking all this stuff. If that was raked in the beginning, there’d be nothing to catch on fire. It’s very interesting to see. A lot of the trees, they took tremendous burn at the bottom, but they didn’t catch on fire. The bottom is all burned but they didn’t catch on fire because they sucked the water, they’re wet. You need forest management, and they don’t have it.
Translation: Gut-thinking reveals cause of forest fires as lack of raking. The water-sucking theory probably emanated from the bowels of Faux news. Blame Californians.
More on climate change -
if you go back and if you look at articles, they talked about global freezing, they talked about at some point the planets could have freeze to death, then it’s going to die of heat exhaustion. There is movement in the atmosphere. There’s no question. As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it — not nearly like it is.
Translation: Blah Blah. There is movement in the atmosphere, just like in my bowels. Science and brain-thinking are so unreliable compared to gut-thinking. Blame scientists.
On the economy —
I think the Fed is a much bigger problem than China.
Oh, I’m not blaming anybody. I’m not happy with the Fed. So far, I’m not even a little bit happy with my selection of Jay [Powell for Federal Reserve Board chair]. Not even a little bit.
Translation: Tariffs good. China friend. Fed enemy.
On Saudis -
I’m saying this: We have $52-a-barrel oil right now and I called them about three months ago, before this whole thing happened with Khashoggi, and I let him have it about oil. We were up to $82 — probably two and a half months ago — we were up to $82 a barrel, and it was going up to $100, and that would’ve been like a massive tax increase, and I didn’t want that. And I called them and they let the oil start flowing, and we’re at $52.
Translation: I am so powerful that a single phone call resulted in a 40% drop in oil prices. But the fed is to blame for the economy.
On Russian aggression -
I don't like that aggression. I don't like that aggression at all. Absolutely. And by the way, Europe shouldn't like that aggression. And Germany shouldn't like that aggression. You know they're paying 1 percent, and they're supposed to be paying much more than 1 percent.
Translation: blah blah. Blame Germany.
On a closing note, the following graphic by Paul Krugman is interesting. Gonad-thinking?
Some reactions —
The bigger question is why did trump do this interview? Even he should know that he would become the laughing stock of the world?
- Does he seriously gut-think that the world will be impressed with his gut-intelligence?
- Does he just want an opportunity to castigate the press for “fake news” when they report on his spoken words (there was no tape)?
- Is this all intended for the base, which does not care about facts, science or the truth, because their gut simply says — follow the leader and screw everyone else?
- Is he preparing talking points for the G20 summit this weekend?
- Does putin dictate the talking points?
What do you think?