It's astonishing to me that-- even extemporaneously-- our new president cannot form cogent thoughts and sentences. Anyone else find this troubling?
Asked by Morning Joe who he talks with consistently about foreign policy, Trump responded, "I'm talking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things."
Trump at the Iowa rally: "People don't know how great you are. People don't know how smart you are. These are the smart people. These are the smart people. These are really the smart people. And they never like to say it. But I say it. And I'm a smart person. These are the smart. We have the smartest people. We have the smartest people. And they know it. And some say it. But they hate to say it. But we have the smartest people."
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@RootinTootin Of course, Rootin, as a person who values intelligence and articulate argument, Trump's incoherence is troubling.........however, this is not really the point is it?
If there's anything we can learn from this election is that Americans are not looking at cogent arguments and consistent and reasonable grasp of issues. The voters were not concerned about the flood of Trump lies....and the cheap and banal character he represents...they loved that he was something different from the status quo represented by Hillary Clinton.
Trump is a lesson in the use of hyperbole and iconic ideas, no matter their invalidity, no matter that they are lies easily debunked......what these ideas represent is a grasp of the emotion of a people willing to tolerate the most fatuous nonsense for a message that resonates with their basic needs and their discontents.
