Trump did not understand Pearl Harbor, new book reveals: 'What's this all about?'
Trump did not understand Pearl Harbor, new book reveals: 'What's this all about?'
A Very Stable Genius reveals a US president ignorant of geography who struggled to read constitution
Summary
A new book, A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reveals Donald Trump's ignorance on key historical and geopolitical issues.
During a 2017 visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, Trump reportedly asked, "What's this all about?" showing a lack of understanding of Pearl Harbor.
The book also details Trump's confusion over India's border with China, his eagerness to meet Vladimir Putin before taking office, and his frustration with anti-bribery laws.
The authors claim their findings are based on extensive interviews and documents.
Intelligence on par with the Americans that voted for him, twice.
Trump does not understand
Pearl Harboranything.Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.
The USA is the worst fucking society because it's allowed these pricks that know nothing but think they know it all to fail upward their whole fucking lives. Musk is another prick exactly like this. These coddled fucking baby bitches who are going to tear down all the things that allowed them to amass such wealth. They literally think they're above it all and think things like "stability" or "respect on the international stage" are jokes.
It's the wealthy managers, supporters and organizers in the background that have all the intelligence to run this circus. They get people like Turnip and Muskrat to lead the show. These are just dumb figureheads that will take the fall when the show is over.
The show is run for as long and as far as possible so that the wealthy owners can get what they want (which is everything)
And if it all works, these owners can all celebrate in the shadows with all their wealth.
And if it all fails, they'll be the first to leave, hide and say that they never had a hand in any of it.
The thing is though, that so much of that wealth is tied up in valuation of the USD, the US stock market, and the USD position as a reserve currency.
Sure, its clear they want to strip mine the US and bring US living standards down to match places like Afghanistan... But that really shows how little they understand how our own economic dominance was built on trust and stability.
Once we have lost those things, all bets are off on their wealth actually staying stable, too.
It's not just born rich losers like Trump failing upward. It's across our entire society. I personally know typical Americans who have been allowed to fail upwards their whole lives. Not intelligent people who are in roles they shouldn't be in. It's across the board. Our society is built to allow stupid people to fail upwards. There simply aren't enough barriers to keep them from positions they shouldn't be in.
I couldn't agree more vigorously.
So I guess this Professor Kelley failed him in whatever course they teach... Right?
As a college instructor, it's difficult sometimes. The dumbest goddamn students I've ever had still manage to pass sometimes due to being friends with the right people or getting lucky when cheating in a way that I can't necessarily prove. I can be 100% certain that someone cheated, but if I can't objectively prove it, it's really, really dangerous (to my career) to fail that student, especially when they are as connected and narcissistic as Trump.
Plus, lots of people take advantage of more inclusive accommodations and more forgiving grading or attendance policies to the point that sometimes they do pass despite knowing a tiny fraction of the material. I could eliminate a lot of that by making the tests harder and removing a lot of academic support services I offer to make the class more "sink or swim," but then I'm mostly punishing the people that need my help the most. I just have to remind myself that it's better to pass a student that doesn't deserve it than it is to misjudge the situation and fail a student who legitimately just needed some additional understanding or academic support.
One would hope...
"When Mr Trump early in his tenure agreed to feature in an HBO documentary in which all living presidents read from the constitution, Mr Trump blamed others in the room when he struggled to read the text.
"It's like a foreign language,” he allegedly complained."
People are often saying "hurr durr Trump can't read," but even that is not really a joke - the man truly is barely literate.
What have you done America, what the hell have you done...
What have you done America, what the hell have you done…
Apparently nothing much in terms of general education.
What have you done America, what the hell have you done…
Sided with an anti-intellectual felon rapist traitor.
Was that regular type, or the original cursive?
Look, if you invited me for a film where random lemmy-users read constitutions, I would fucking memorize that shit so that I could do it with my eyes closed. Old cursive sucks to read, and I definitely can't read it as fast as I can talk... but come on.
Billionaires are mostly all idiots who never had to actually educate themselves. Out of the 760 of them in the USA 12-15 of them are probably in the 130+ iq range and the rest are barely above or below the 100 median range. Even with their expensive private education most of them likely paid others to do their school work like george bush was rumored to have at yale. Then with nixon and reagan severely cutting education standards at the direction of their mutual consultant roger freeman saying that we were en route for a highly educated proletariat which was a threat to them and would result in mass unemployment (since people who are intelligent enough can easily understand capitalism is exploitative and many of the wages offered are not worth the effort input) now we are in a full fledged fascist hellscape. They are so emboldened they dont even attempt to hide it anymore.
The guy looked straight into the sun. There is no ending to "Trump doesn't understand... " that would surprise me.
During a meeting with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister’s “eyes bulged out in surprise”, the Washington Post reporters claim, when Mr Trump told him: “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.” China and India in fact share more than 2,000 miles of common border.
Mr Modi’s expression “shifted from shock and concern to resignation”
Modi is all of us. Shocked at the stupidity, concerned for our well being then resigned to the fact Trump doesn't even care about either.
The article is not a long read, and recounts a number of other horrifyingly stupid things.
"It's not like you have China at your border"
Ugh
“I have had a two-hour meeting with Putin. That's all I need to know ... I've sized it all up. I've got it.”
The common thread is his default assumption that he already knows everything important there is to know. This is the sign of someone not only profoundly ignorant but also profoundly stupid, who has never noticed how this assumption is always wrong.
Well his hero was in the European theater and died by suicide in a bunker in Berlin so it kind of makes sense he doesn't know about the Pacific theater.
Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket's red glare it had nothing but victory.
Trump speaking about the Revolutionary War. I'm supposed to be surprised he doesn't "get" Pearl Harbour?
We dominated the air in the revolutionary war for sure, but it was mainly because Britain didn’t have any airports.
This loser has had a silver spoon shoved up his ass his entire life. Hey, weren't conservatives supposed to be against that kind of thing? Oh wait, conservatives don't actually have standards. Trump hasn't been forced to learn or grow because of that silver spoon. That's why he's an 80 year old man that acts like a 5 year old child and is about as intelligent as one. Does anyone, other than idiots, expect him to know anything about American history?
We should be thankful he doesn’t get Pearl Harbor, fucktard would probably try to attack Japan.
I don't know, he seems to have pretty positive views for the axis side of WW2. He'd probably be thinking "what if we had smart loyal pilots like the japanese, but with nukes". and would begin pushing for a supprise nuclear kamakazi strike against a nation that wouldn't see it coming. (maybe canada).
In fairness, harbour is a pretty long word for someone with the reading comprehension of a toddler
To be fair, Pearl Harbors significance is vastly overstated. It was just a random fucking air raid like any other. All the stuff that led to it is much more important.
The random air raid that pushed US to war by narrowly avoiding catastrophic navy loss? Yeah, no biggie.
Edit: are->air
It was just a random fucking air raid like any other.
It was abundantly and absolutely not. It was the first raid on the US by Japan that was intended to show the US why they shouldn't enter the war and spectacularly backfired as it became the rally point for them to enter.
Yeah fuck those dead people!
Huge /s