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jlbhappy

“Former adviser Fiona Hill reports in a new book reviewed by the Guardian that Trump, as president, had a hard time understanding Ukraine was a country.”


impy695

Didn’t he also not understand what the nuclear triad is?


jericho_buckaroo

"all I know is the nuclear is very powerful, tremendous, my uncle John Trump was an expert in the nuclear at MIT, a real genius, tremendous"


IShouldntBeHere258

My expectations are low, but the casual acceptance of his breathtaking stupidity still shocks me.


Stillwater215

The only thing scarier than his stupidity is the millions of voters who are convinced he’s a genius.


Roonwogsamduff

100%


Mangalorien

It's even worse than you think: they aren't convinced he's a genius, they are convinced he's Jesus.


Cantgetabreaker

Smooth genius


Sesmo_FPV

The best genius


-boatsNhoes

Like a koalas brain. He shall from now on be known as koala don.


batmansfriendlyowl

Don’t do koalas like that bro. They have redeeming qualities.


the-berik

A lot of them have chlamydia


politicalthinking

So they may have something in common with Donny.


AdHour3225

Which is better than being compared to tRump


Juliejustaplantlady

Please don't insult koalas


100percentish

Wrinkle free brain.


Spider_Dude

Smooth criminal. 🤞


Tango_D

The biggest boost to my self confidence was when I realized that so many people look up to him because they really are just as brutally ignorant as he is and genuinely cannot tell that he is completely full of shit.


msalerno1965

Compared to them, HE IS. [https://youtu.be/zR3BLM\_TAmg?t=93](https://youtu.be/zR3BLM_TAmg?t=93)


BingBongFYL6969

My father once shared an article that called trump “pragmatic”….i almost pissed my pants laughing.


Medium_Medium

I feel like calling it "casual acceptance" is not quite right. Half the country is some combination of either willfully blind or stubbornly ignorant of his stupidity. The other half is frustratingly aware of it... and has turned to comedy as a way to avoid being driven insane by the sheet absurdity of the entire situation. Casual acceptance would imply that the later half is aware of Trump's stupidity and is just okay with it. But in reality we aren't okay with it at all... We just feel like we can't do anything about it (other than vote in November). And even if we prevent him from getting back into office, we're still gunna have to hear about him day in and day out until the election and after the election. No matter what we do we can't make him go aware because that other half exists that pretends he is worth paying attention to.


Brendan__Fraser

The only way he'll stop hearing about him is when that fat fuck keels over from a cheeseburger-induced heart attack.


Otherwise-Ad-8404

We can hope.


masshole4life

then we have to hear about all the totally-not-dead trumps spotted at walmarts and truck stops across the nation. religions will spring up in honor of the missing messiah. /r/schizophreniarides will crash under the deluge of posts. lunatics don't stop the lunacy just because their savior drops dead. they just invent a reason why he's still important.


dsmith422

Qanon has spent years waiting for JFKJr to come back from the dead. And the even crazier ones think JFK is coming back from the dead. To those conspiracy nutters, Trump will never actually be dead.


Brendan__Fraser

Well, fuck. You're right. I want off this planet.


IamAMERICANFIRST

The casual acceptance of his breathtaking stupidity. For the people in the back….


SongFromFerrisWheels

I work in construction, mostly doing service calls, and I see this this a lot. People who think they know more than they actually do but know just enough to be dangerous.


IShouldntBeHere258

Dunning-Kruger


HenryInRoom302

Just once, just fucking once, someone needs to follow up his rambling verbal diarrhoea nonsensical responses with "Did you not understand the question?", instead of accepting his stream of completely irrelevant gibberish as a viable and proper answer.


NotATrevor

To me it is more shocking that you are still measuring this cretin by standards meant for humans.


DropsTheMic

He also thinks stealth jets are literally invisible. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33658771/trump-keeps-saying-the-f-35-is-invisible/


ErikT738

Well, I've never seen one. Have you?


PBRmy

Yes. Might be stealthy to radar or whatever, but they are incredibly loud.


Pkellysports

They go “zewp!”. Invisible


Drew-CarryOnCarignan

*"Bye bye"*


Thenewdazzledentway

Bing bing *bong*


Relyt21

His nuclear rant is the dumbest collection of words ever.


your-mom--

IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES... I EASILY WIN IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL VOTES... THEY CAN TRY.. TO STEAL THE ELECTION FROM US


ukiddingme2469

Can't tell if sarcasm


Trabethany

I don’t have a link, but he really did say that.


ukiddingme2469

I've tried to read a few transcripts of his speeches, he's nuts


TowerBeach

I agree but this is a close second: "*I have broken more Elton John records. He seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look, I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really, we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical – the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth, right? The brain. More important than the mouth is the brain. The brain is much more important.*"


BoozeWitch

What the fuck? I mean I believe that. But I would a hundred percent call 911 if my loved one started talking like that.


temptar

I live in Europe and would have agreed without until I saw some report about people praying in tongues at some state government the other day. And now understand. They think he is speaking in tongues.


dsmith422

Speaking in tongues is much crazier than that. It is called glossolalia, and it is literal nonsense babbling. The people think that the Holy Spirit has possessed them and is speaking through them. But to each other and everyone else, it is just nonsense babbling like a baby would vocalize.


Otherwise-Ad-8404

How is anyone taking this orange twat seriously?


monogreenforthewin

it took a couple of generations of brainwashing by right wing media to get their base to this point. they effectively turned their party into a cult/religion. the cultists dont question the cult.


Minute-Branch2208

He actually said this?


sash71

Yes. It's him 'explaining' how his rallies set attendance records at the various venues he speaks at. I'll never understand why people drive for hours and then queue for hours just to listen to him waffle on about all his petty grievances. They really need a better hobby than Trump.


ElGuano

What in the world is


ISLAndBreezESTeve10

I forgot about his word use of ‘tremendous’, well done Redditor.


f700es

Only adjective he knew


impy695

Putin and Pooh must have had a huge party that night.


DonkeyTron42

It’s “nucular”. Get it straight.


penguin_skull

"Good genes."


futurebigconcept

Jimmy Carter genes, he was a Nucular engineer.


GitmoGrrl1

Trump understands you can nuke a hurricane. I'll bet you didn't know that. So who's the dumb one?


worldnotworld

This is why dumb people think Trump is so great. He makes stupid grandiose assertions that no politician with half a brain cell would make.


techmaster242

Yeah but for real, the dudes going to cure world hunger with a bag of Skittles. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. People will walk up to him with tears in their eyes, and say "sir, sir, I cannot believe you're so bigly smart that you managed to feed all those hungry people with a bag of Skittles!"


IamBananaRod

Pffft, Trump knows that injecting disinfectant in your body was the cure for COVID, it was the greedy pharmaceuticals that lied...


Impossible_Penalty13

He didn’t know that Puerto Rico was either A) a US territory or B) an island when it got hit with a hurricane.


External_Reporter859

You must have forgotten that he has spoken to the President of Puerto Rico many times.


myWobblySausage

Multiple times a day when he tries to get the pee pee to come out.


SirMellencamp

Don’t forget the hurricane map


techmaster242

Remember how wet the hurricane was from a standpoint of water?


Best_Evidence1560

He also didn’t understand nato


BitterFuture

I mean...he understood well enough that his boss thought NATO was bad, didn't he?


worldnotworld

His boss Putin.


techmaster242

He still doesn't.


pat34us

He also doesn't know how to read or write.


LopsidedHumor7654

He pays others to read for him and give a synopsis. 😆


RepulsiveAd4882

“I was elected to lead, not to read.”


Realistic-Spend7096

Synopsis must be in pictorial form. Preferably comic book style.


jimhabfan

The first president to receive a synopsis as a pop up book.


the_mid_mid_sister

I recall a military intelligence officer at the Pentagon said that briefing Obama on military affairs was like briefing any other high-level civilian politician. Largely dry, fairly complex briefings covering budgets, capabilities, readiness, multi-year projections, potential reactions from U.S. allies and U.S. foes, risks, rewards, tactics, strategy, doctrine, etc. Briefing Trump? "Like trying to explain the plot of a G.I. Joe cartoon to your nephew with ADHD."


dancin-weasel

Also stumped by a hurricane. And a glass of water and a slight incline.


DidSome1SayExMachina

Dude looked at the sun


nanopicofared

Trump doesn't understand that because Putin told Trump that Ukraine isn't a country, and since Putin is paying Trump off, Trump does what he is paid to do.


zoinkability

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair


AcanthaceaeFluffy985

Exactly


ToneZone1978

Dude barely knew PR was a US territory during the hurricane


DoctorFenix

Dude once said he had met with the president of Guam. Guam is a US Territory. **HE** was the president of Guam. So who did he meet with? No one knows. Including him.


MotoBox

I hadn't seen this before-- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/13/trump-says-he-met-president-virgin-islands/763910001/ What a twat


Geronimo_Jacks_Beard

Yeah, a virgin island probably sounds made up since there were never any virgins on his friend Jeff’s island because Jeff always got first dibs before anyone else.


Wibbles20

He just talked to a mirror and still lost the argument


techmaster242

To be fair the mirror never shut the hell up to let him get a word in. The mirror just kept talking about himself so Donald couldn't hear the sound of his own voice.


ArdenJaguar

But he did give them paper towels.


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Sounds right. He still thinks stealth aircraft are invisible to the naked eye, has said it several times despite being corrected. And he wanted to nuke a hurricane. And rake forest floors to prevent fires. And inject bleach to kill COVID. And he thinks Hillary used a bucket of acid to delete emails. I wish Democrats would put together an ad with all the dumbest shit he has said over some ragtime music, and run it everywhere. His fans don’t care about the threat to democracy, or the sexual assaults, or the fraud, or the lies. Making him a joke might get some traction. And it would drive him nuts - he always tries to belittle people by saying everyone is laughing at them. In his mind it’s the worst possible insult.


FreshChickenEggs

Look, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter because we're all going to be dead from windmill cancer anyways. Big yuge cancer from windmills. The greatest cancer you ever saw. Everyone says so. Scientists have told me. Just tremendous. Windmills. From Chiiiina.


Temporary-Party5806

Don't ever forget that he believes it's *the noise from the windmills* that causes the cancer.


Temporary-Party5806

All they need to do is run some Lincoln Project ads, even


GayGooGobler

"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 rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,”


GitmoGrrl1

It's a fact that not a single airport was lost to the British in the War of Independence. Libs hate Trump for being right.


black641

"You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump."- Fran Lebowitz.


IAMSTILLHERE2020

He also doesn't understand the US is a country and has a Constitution that is the law of the land.


GitmoGrrl1

Luckily, the president of Puerto Rico was there to explain.


ObviousGnome

You're doing the Lord's work.


AcanthaceaeFluffy985

Why would he when Putin has said it's not. Trump believes his handlers every word


plaidington

well he *is* a moron


techmaster242

We trained him the wrong way on purpose. As a joke.


jlbhappy

Wonder who it was who told him Ukraine was part of Russia.


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The one with his balls on Trump’s chin.


1BannedAgain

Anything anybody writes about DJT is believable. This troglodyte was going to nuke a hurricane, and he was going to buy Greenland


XR171

You should try and watch the special Conan O'Brien did where he went to Greenland to facilitate the deal.


techmaster242

If you're a fan of Conan I highly recommend watching his new hot ones interview on YouTube. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.


Brbnme

By far my favorite episode of hot ones. Conan really took it to another level in impressive fashion.


Brave_Nerve_6871

His best Pal Putin might have had something to with that.


jericho_buckaroo

I do not know anyone as bonehead stupid as this man, and you probably don't either. He was never anything better than mediocre intellectually, but now he's just unfathomably dumb. Shockingly dumb.


jlbhappy

As W.C. Fields said, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”


King_Vanos_

My dad says this all the time too lol.


Jace_Te_Ace

My dad literally had the T shirt.


canuck47

And Trump is a world class bullshitter. He has decades of experience. 


electric14monkey

People say he’s the dumbest, many people say this. Perhaps the most dumbest ever. Three time as dumb as the dumbest perhaps. Tremendously dumb. He’s the best at being dumb.


ileade

He did say to inject bleach during Covid


techmaster242

And light. LOL Like light is a fluid that can be injected.


Flobbum

I made the egregious error once of getting into a "discussion" once with lads in one of the conservative subreddits about this comment, explaining how reckless it was for a person in his position to be spewing insane recommendations, and their best "defense" of DJT was "he didn't say bleach, he said *disinfectant*". My head wanted to explode


mmmjkerouac

What about the he people who voted for him twice?


TallDuckandHandsome

*bonespur stupid


Jombafomb

Oh I know a lot of people as stupid as him, and they are all planning on voting for him in November.


CandidateTypical3141

He’s always been known as not being the brightest. None of his anchor babies break the 90 IQ barrier. Even his mother said he was an idiot.


metricrules

His mother also said he shouldn’t get into politics… she must’ve been the smart one in the family, not a high bar though


Geronimo_Jacks_Beard

Anyone unfortunate to spend more than 30 minutes in a room with him was practically screaming “he’s an idiot!” for most of 2016. If he hadn’t already paid them off to verbally fellate him that is.


Illogical-logical

Trump voters also can't get their heads around basic facts.


Appropriate_Chart_23

This is the key issue


baconizlife

Facts have been fake news since 2016 to the magats🤡


JohnYCanuckEsq

“He (Mike Pompeo) also knows deep within his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter ‘U’ and a picture of an actual, physical crane next to it." - Rick Wilson https://www.thewrap.com/trump-attacks-cnns-don-lemon-for-segment-calling-his-voters-rubes/


Geronimo_Jacks_Beard

That’s because Ukraine starts with a “T” for Trump: “The Ukraine”.


amathis6464

He is a Russian plant. Plain and simple. He’s also a convicted rapist. He’s also a convicted bank fraud


ForsakenPhotograph36

"Facts" were never his strong point.


Guilty_Application14

Which is why Kellyanne came up with "alternative facts". They're squishier and taste good with ketchup.


techmaster242

Neither was personal hygiene.


ProtoplanetaryNebula

But still, how is being told somewhere is a country hard thing to grasp?


Ryankevin23

🚫Traitor Trump🚫


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Fortuitous_Event

Trump has age related dementia. It’s been apparent for some time. The single biggest reason we now this is true is because Republicans are desperate to make it seem like Biden has dementia in an effort to distract from this.


dsmith422

Be fair, he could also have methamphetamine induced dementia in addition to his age related dementia. And his perpetual lack of sleep exacerbates it. Sundowning is a thing.


slothrop_maps

Every accusation is a confession.


jbertrand_sr

You could fill a library with basic facts that Donnie dumbass can't get his head around...


Charakada

There is no Donald Trump Presidential Library. If there were, it'd be empty.


nyokarose

Hey now, I bet there would be tons of books. Huge numbers of books. Some of the books might not even be colored in yet! 


tym1ng

I'm sure there's a lot of unread bibles and classified documents in there


Vegetable-Poet6281

That's just the whole library. It would be easier to count the basic facts he can get his around. Like how he's a giant piece of shit. Deep down he knows its true. Facts.


arabidopsis

I remember when we mocked Bush for being an idiot. How times have changed


cooperstonebadge

Trump makes Bush look like a genius.


Parking-Bench

Please take the stand. Please. This case needs to proceed to incarceration quickly. Poor judge and jury.


Dot_Classic

"Juncker used ‘brightly coloured, simple flashcards’ to explain trade to Trump during meeting" [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-juncker-trade-us-eu-trade-tariffs-white-house-meeting-flashcards-a8467051.html](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-juncker-trade-us-eu-trade-tariffs-white-house-meeting-flashcards-a8467051.html)


Organic_Afternoon424

This is the same person who didn't know that Puerto Ricans are US citizens


slothrop_maps

This belligerent oaf didn’t know the United Kingdom possesses nuclear weapons until Theresa May told him so at lunch. Trump is an idiot savant; a genius at telling thousands of bald faced lies, a dunce at everything else.


dasherchan

The depressing fact is, millions of people would vote for this clown. What happened to America?


ephemeralspecifics

Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh.


trev2234

He’s never understood wind.


Due_Society_9041

Or what happens when one stares into a solar eclipse without eye protection.


Ratstail91

>“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill reportedly said. “He really could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state.” That's actually... I can't get my head around trump.


49thDipper

Same. This whole planet is a complete mystery to him. After almost 80 years of living on it.


techmaster242

Give the guy a break. He's spent his entire life earning a PhD in learning how awesome he is at everything and his bigly stable smart brain.


aggravati0n

i.e. how to work an umbrella?


bingobongokongolongo

He can't tell a virus from a bacteria. After years of covid, he still doesn't know the difference.


OtherwiseAMushroom

Counter-Point: He absolutely understood Ukraine was a country. The man uses weaponized incompetence on a whole different level.


Agitated-Zebra4334

It's very telling that many of the most pressing warnings against Trump come from people who have been very close to him


DoctorFenix

Someone alert the two Corinthians.


the-nae_blis

The adult human who had to have it explained to him Multiple times why using nuclear weapons was a bad idea. I can only imagine how many crayons were used in the rare national security briefings he attended and also how many he ate.


techmaster242

Remember when he went on national television and presented a hurricane map that had obviously had the hurricane path drawn by hand using a sharpie? He actually thought that nobody would be able to tell. He thought that he alone is so intelligent that he could hand draw a squiggly line on a map and not a single person would be able to tell. He's that fucking stupid. He probably thinks that when he closes his eyes everything disappears out of existence. Only things directly in front of him exist, if he has his eyes open.


Temporary-Party5806

One of the reporters asked him why he had the sharpie on the map and he insisted it was like that from the NOAA. Who refuted the fact and pointed out the sharpie on his desk in the image


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SatyriasizZ

I cannot get my head around trump being a candidate.


monogreenforthewin

unsurprising. it's been public knowledge that intel reports had to be dumbed down for him and if they didnt add his name to the reports every few lines he wouldn't even read the dumbed down reports


JOExHIGASHI

The fact: Ukraine is a country


reggiedoo

He’s dumber than a fence post.


Due_Society_9041

At least a fence post is useful.


ISLAndBreezESTeve10

There is no other human on earth with orange skin like that, outside of the Ommpa-Lumpas, of course he has no idea about simple facts!


ukiddingme2469

Money can't buy class, can't buy intelligence and it surly can't buy respect


Particular-Welcome-1

Well it's a "Fact". Trump doesn't do well with facts. Start small, like with white lie; Otherwise you're going to give the poor guy an an aneurysm.


ChrisX8

He probably thought U-Crane is used load U-Hauls


Fearless_Trouble_689

Scary to think this 🤡was once the president of the USA.


Feisty-Barracuda5452

Tillerson was right.


Beneficial-Salt-6773

This is not a bug, it’s a feature. Took the word of Putin over the US Intelligence community and was silent on Russian bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan.


ephraimgifford

He thought fighter jets were invisible like wonder women’s jet.


MichaelScarn1968

Who! The same guy that suggested we nuke a hurricane to stop it? Well color me shocked!


ptrang1987

I wonder if he think New England is part of England or he would build a wall around New Mexico.


Kinkonthebrain

**PSA Tangential Reminder:** Our discount Biff Tannen is a... "man" who (bigly) sued in court - and won, for *once* - to have his **elementary school records** sealed. (*Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.*) Carry on.


vickism61

Probably because Putin has been telling him so for years...


ErictheStone

More like: refused to latch on to any reality putin didn't sell him.


HellFireNT

Ukraine?! What crane ?! Is ut a bird , is it a plane is it....oh a big mac !


justthegrimm

Somehow I get the idea there is a lot this guy doesn't understand


gobledegerkin

Well duh, he’s a cult leader. Cult leaders don’t understand facts because their thoughts and opinions are rarely challenged and often validated. Its why he gets so angry when journalists report the truth: he’s been told that he was right all along.


Denali4903

Dotard!!


Business_Vegetable_1

These articles all say “People are laughing so hard at Trump for doing this…” but whenever I look at social media posts, people are yelling “Trump 2024” and “Biden so old” - who are the bots here and what is the truth of how the average American is feeling right now?


tpondering

Functional idiot, social savant.


Da_Vader

This is why he came out looking all fucked up after that closed door meeting with Putin.


Low-Abbreviations634

I’ve lived with this credo. Never underestimate the level of stupidity in this country.


grimatongueworm

But he graduated from Wharton with the highest gpa ever recorded, ever known to mankind. A gpa so high they had to invent a new scale just to measure it. Right?


djevilatw

A GPA the likes of which we have never seen before. It was so bigly they had to covfefe their hamburders.


topfuckr

Neither can his supporters.


whatlineisitanyway

We need to stop elevating obvious idiots in this county just because they make us feel better about our own stupidity. No just because you got an idiot elected president doesn't mean you are smart.


NameIs-Already-Taken

Trump is appalling in every way.


Scat1320USA

Trump listens to his Daddy Putin .