Donald Trump Gets His Foreign Policy From TV Shows

Donald Trump, the Republican primary leader by a wide margin, seems to think this is a perfectly reasonable thing for a presidential candidate to say:

On foreign policy, Mr. Trump indicated that he was staking out most of his early positions without much outside counsel.

“I watch the shows,” Mr. Trump said when asked whom he talked to for military advice. “I mean, I really see a lot of great — you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows and you have the generals and you have certain people that you like.” He later added that he was a fan of former Ambassador John R. Bolton and retired Col. Jack Jacobs.

He's currently polling at 25 percent among likely Republican primary voters; his next closest rivals are Ben Carson at 12 percent and Ted Cruz at 10 percent.

Anyone want to bet this bit of idiocy won't harm his poll numbers in the least? Maybe it will even give them a boost.

What a perfect encapsulation he is of the Republican Party's worst features: ignorant, stubbornly opinionated, and oblivious to the fact that he looks to anyone outside of that base like a complete idiot.