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Trump is 'very intelligent.' Just ask him
http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-dreier-trump-intelligence-20171030-story.html?int=lat_digitaladshouse_bx-modal_acquisition-subscriber_ngux_display-ad-interstitial_bx-bonus-story_______ (Trump is 'very intelligent.' Just ask him)
During an impromptu news conference outside the White House last Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump whether he should be more civil.
"Well, I think the press makes me more uncivil than I am," the president said, and then quickly switched the topic from his manners to his mind.
"You know, people don't understand. I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person."
Throughout his career, Trump has repeatedly claimed that he's both well-educated and brainy. Each time, it isn't clear if he's trying to convince his interviewers or himself.
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Anyone who feels compelled to boast how smart he is clearly suffers from a profound insecurity about his intelligence and accomplishments. In Trump's case, he has good reason to have doubts.
A linguistic analysis by Politico found that Trump speaks at a third-grade level. Donald Trump Talks Like a Third-Grader
A study by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University compared last year's Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in terms of their vocabulary and grammar. Trump scored at a fifth-grade level, the lowest of all the candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/trumps-grammar-in-speeches-just-below-6th-grade-level-study-finds/?utm_term=.3a94e9956404 (Trump’s grammar in speeches ‘just below 6th grade level,’ study finds)
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According to the Post:
"Trump's father — whose name had been besmirched in New York real estate circles after investigations into windfall profits and other abuses in his real estate projects — was an essential silent partner in Trump's initiative. In effect, the son was the front man, relying on his father's connections and wealth, while his father stood silently in the background to avoid drawing attention to himself."
As a businessman, Trump is known for his bogus enterprises (like Trump University), his repeated rip-offs of suppliers, contractors and employees, and his wild exaggerations of the size of his wealth. At least six of Trump's businesses have gone bankrupt, but on April 18, 2015, he tweeted this falsehood: "For all of the haters and losers out there sorry, I never went Bankrupt."
Presidents don't have to be geniuses. But a successful president must recognize his own limitations and be willing to rely on others' expertise. He has to take constant criticism — from the media, political opponents and his own advisors — without taking it too personally. Most important, an effective president needs good judgment — to be able to hear different viewpoints, weigh evidence, think several steps in advance rather than act impulsively and be calm under intense pressure. Trump fails each of these tests.
Beneath Trump's public bravado is a deeply insecure, troubled man. This makes him unfit to be president, a danger to the country and the world.
http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-dreier-trump-intelligence-20171030-story.html?int=lat_digitaladshouse_bx-modal_acquisition-subscriber_ngux_display-ad-interstitial_bx-bonus-story_______ (Trump is 'very intelligent.' Just ask him)
During an impromptu news conference outside the White House last Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump whether he should be more civil.
"Well, I think the press makes me more uncivil than I am," the president said, and then quickly switched the topic from his manners to his mind.
"You know, people don't understand. I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person."
Throughout his career, Trump has repeatedly claimed that he's both well-educated and brainy. Each time, it isn't clear if he's trying to convince his interviewers or himself.
...
Anyone who feels compelled to boast how smart he is clearly suffers from a profound insecurity about his intelligence and accomplishments. In Trump's case, he has good reason to have doubts.
A linguistic analysis by Politico found that Trump speaks at a third-grade level. Donald Trump Talks Like a Third-Grader
A study by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University compared last year's Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in terms of their vocabulary and grammar. Trump scored at a fifth-grade level, the lowest of all the candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/18/trumps-grammar-in-speeches-just-below-6th-grade-level-study-finds/?utm_term=.3a94e9956404 (Trump’s grammar in speeches ‘just below 6th grade level,’ study finds)
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According to the Post:
"Trump's father — whose name had been besmirched in New York real estate circles after investigations into windfall profits and other abuses in his real estate projects — was an essential silent partner in Trump's initiative. In effect, the son was the front man, relying on his father's connections and wealth, while his father stood silently in the background to avoid drawing attention to himself."
As a businessman, Trump is known for his bogus enterprises (like Trump University), his repeated rip-offs of suppliers, contractors and employees, and his wild exaggerations of the size of his wealth. At least six of Trump's businesses have gone bankrupt, but on April 18, 2015, he tweeted this falsehood: "For all of the haters and losers out there sorry, I never went Bankrupt."
Presidents don't have to be geniuses. But a successful president must recognize his own limitations and be willing to rely on others' expertise. He has to take constant criticism — from the media, political opponents and his own advisors — without taking it too personally. Most important, an effective president needs good judgment — to be able to hear different viewpoints, weigh evidence, think several steps in advance rather than act impulsively and be calm under intense pressure. Trump fails each of these tests.
Beneath Trump's public bravado is a deeply insecure, troubled man. This makes him unfit to be president, a danger to the country and the world.
Commentary: Donald Trump is done
Donald Trump is done
[Trump] sits at that ridiculous little desk in the Oval Office and signs a presidential proclamation as if he's Kim Jong Un or something and he holds it up like a kid holding up his school project that his mama wrote for him. The man can barely read, that's why he hates TelePrompter. Total lightweight.
He is NOT A NICE PERSON and so the name Trump is as popular as herpes these days. Trumpet players have taken up the cornet. Card players refer to the lead suit as the jump suit. Tramps prefer to be called hoboes, town dumps are now refuse heaps, and girls named Dawn are becoming Cheryls. To residents of his crummy building on Fifth Avenue, it's now known as Chump Tower because it's caused so much grief and tragedy for people. It wasn't constructed — it was fabricated. FABRICATED. Plywood modules shipped down from Canada and installed by minimum-wage temps from Hoboken. I can prove this. I have documentation. The wind whistles through the tower at night, roaches the size of rats. Ask anybody.
People who voted for him are humiliated. So his ratings have tanked. The same people who admire him tend to drive Dodge Darts and wear sweatshirts from schools they didn't attend. Nobody stays in his hotels except foreign CEOs and their tootsies. He is weak. Weak on #s, weak on 1st Amendment, worst president in history. Failed @ real estate and now @ politics. His record = BAD. First president in my lifetime who DOES NOT KNOW the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner." The lips are not even moving.
He quit holding rallies in stadiums because nobody wants to go hear a loser brag about his manliness for an hour, you can hear that in any barroom. Only places he can draw a crowd are rural areas where billboards are riddled with bullet holes, shot by men angry because they can't read. He is so over. Totally irrelevant, exhausted, flamed out. The sleepytime eyes and la-di-da hair and the tweet-tweet-tweet say it all. Real men don't tweet. Ask anybody. We bark, we protest, we thunder, condemn, denounce, we give 'em hell, sometimes we post. Wimps tweet. And now the perps are going to start walking and talking. And the fat lady is waiting in the wings.
Donald Trump is done
[Trump] sits at that ridiculous little desk in the Oval Office and signs a presidential proclamation as if he's Kim Jong Un or something and he holds it up like a kid holding up his school project that his mama wrote for him. The man can barely read, that's why he hates TelePrompter. Total lightweight.
He is NOT A NICE PERSON and so the name Trump is as popular as herpes these days. Trumpet players have taken up the cornet. Card players refer to the lead suit as the jump suit. Tramps prefer to be called hoboes, town dumps are now refuse heaps, and girls named Dawn are becoming Cheryls. To residents of his crummy building on Fifth Avenue, it's now known as Chump Tower because it's caused so much grief and tragedy for people. It wasn't constructed — it was fabricated. FABRICATED. Plywood modules shipped down from Canada and installed by minimum-wage temps from Hoboken. I can prove this. I have documentation. The wind whistles through the tower at night, roaches the size of rats. Ask anybody.
People who voted for him are humiliated. So his ratings have tanked. The same people who admire him tend to drive Dodge Darts and wear sweatshirts from schools they didn't attend. Nobody stays in his hotels except foreign CEOs and their tootsies. He is weak. Weak on #s, weak on 1st Amendment, worst president in history. Failed @ real estate and now @ politics. His record = BAD. First president in my lifetime who DOES NOT KNOW the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner." The lips are not even moving.
He quit holding rallies in stadiums because nobody wants to go hear a loser brag about his manliness for an hour, you can hear that in any barroom. Only places he can draw a crowd are rural areas where billboards are riddled with bullet holes, shot by men angry because they can't read. He is so over. Totally irrelevant, exhausted, flamed out. The sleepytime eyes and la-di-da hair and the tweet-tweet-tweet say it all. Real men don't tweet. Ask anybody. We bark, we protest, we thunder, condemn, denounce, we give 'em hell, sometimes we post. Wimps tweet. And now the perps are going to start walking and talking. And the fat lady is waiting in the wings.
