Donald Trump, in his delusional, massively insecure mind, believes himself to be an expert in a startling array of fields. A waddling, bloated example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action, Trump has boasted of his “expertise” in a number of areas. I’ve assembled a selection of videos that reveal the truly astounding range of areas about which Trump fancies himself an “expert”.
As I said, astounding. To me, the most appalling statement along these lines was this one, reported by The Washington Post:
...Trump likes to say that he fell into politics almost by accident, and on Friday, as he sought to calm a nation gripped with fears over coronavirus, he suggested he would have thrived in another profession — medical expert.
“I like this stuff. I really get it,” Trump boasted to reporters during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where he met with actual doctors and scientists who are feverishly scrambling to contain and combat the deadly illness. Citing a “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at MIT, Trump professed that it must run in the family genes.
“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”
At the time Trump said this, there were about 300 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Now there are more than 5,000,000.
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