Our President is "Dumb As ****"

[Straight Shooter]

Doubtful Aides

Top Trump staffers expressed their doubts about his intelligence with colorful adjectives, Wolff said.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called Trump a “moron” last year.

“For (Treasury Secretary) Steve Mnuchin and (former Trump White House chief of staff) Reince Priebus, the president was an ‘idiot.’ For (former Goldman Sachs exec) Gary Cohn, he was ‘dumb as sh-t.’ For (National Security Adviser) H.R. McMaster he was a ‘dope.’ The list went on,” Wolff said.

Trump didn't expect to win the presidency

Trump's "ultimate goal” had never been to win the Oval Office, Wolff said. But he was excited about the exposure and opportunities to develop his brand.

With encouragement from his longtime pal and former Fox News head Roger Ailes, Trump even flirted with the idea of starting his own television network.

“Once he lost, Trump would be both insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary. His ******** Ivanka and ***-in-law Jared would be international ***********. Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn't become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching,” Wolff said.

The Constitution

“I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head,” former aide Sam Nunberg told Wolff about the time he was sent to explain the Constitution to Trump early in the campaign.

Infidelity

Trump had a trick he used when he wanted to pursue friend’s wives, according to Wolff.

“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed. In pursuing a friend’s wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought. Then he’d have his secretary ask the friend into his office; once the friend arrived, Trump would engage in what was, for him, more or less constant sexual banter. ‘Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better f--- than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o’clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise ...’ All the while, Trump would have his friend’s wife on the speakerphone, listening in,” Wolff wrote.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/juiciest-lines-michael-wolff-trump-book-article-1.3735541

I can't wait to read this masterpiece. I already pre-ordered the ebook

 

[Straight Shooter]

They moved up the release date of the book to tomorrow. Can't wait!!

 

[knowone]

I could have told people that 30 years ago.

 

[Supafly]

 

[smithus]

I think the book will be very interesting, for both sides, whether pro-Trump or against him

 

[Will E Worm]

Wolff is delusional and needs to leave America.

Did you see his article where he attacks Murdoch?

Article

 

[pool_hustler]

Did you see his article where he attacks Murdoch?

Just read it now. Seems to me like a very astute, logical appraisal of Murdoch.

Wolff is delusional and needs to leave America.

If being delusional is the barometer for leaving America, Trump and the rest of the birthers should be first in line to go.

 

[pool_hustler]

And regarding the OP, yes Trump is "dumb as ****" when it comes to a whole range of topics and issues. There's simply no arguing that fact at this point.

 

[Johan]

Trump is "a Moron"
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State

Trump is "an idiot"
Steve Mnuchin, Treasure Secretary

Trump is "Dumb as ****"
Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Advisor

Trump is "a hopeless idiot"
H.R. McMaster, National Security advisor

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”
William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania

Trump has “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.”
Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal"

Trump is "a fucking idiot"
Rupert Murdoch

 

[Will E Worm]

Just read it now. Seems to me like a very astute, logical appraisal of Murdoch.

Not at all. He called a jew an anti-semite. hat word is just created to ****** people and make them conform.

If being delusional is the barometer for leaving America, Trump and the rest of the birthers should be first in line to go

No, he needs to leave because he hates America.

 

[pool_hustler]

No, he needs to leave because he hates America.

He does?

Seems to me in this book situation the one who hates america, or at least america's founding document and principles, would be Trump...

According to legal experts and historians, threats of litigation by Trump as a sitting president against a book author and publisher were unprecedented, and challenged the freedom of speech protected by the U.S. First Amendment

Aren't you supposedly some kind of YUGE freedom of speech advocate?

 

[Jack Davenport]

He does?

Seems to me in this book situation the one who hates america, or at least america's founding document and principles, would be Trump...

According to legal experts and historians, threats of litigation by Trump as a sitting president against a book author and publisher were unprecedented, and challenged the freedom of speech protected by the U.S. First Amendment

Aren't you supposedly some kind of YUGE freedom of speech advocate?

The first amendment does not protect one from action against slander or libelous accusations. The damn book was about HIM, it’s not like he is seeking to ban The Grapes Of Wrath from school rooms.

Libs and their selective outrage and cherry picking of the constitution is always high hilarity. Maggie Haberman and Tony Blair have both called into question Wolff’s credibility. So far Trump has reacted to this about as well as he can. Especially exposing Sloppy Steve Bannon for the fraud he is.

If Trump is an idiot or “ dumb as ****”, we need more idiocy because the economy is chugging along at a nice clip now. A question, was there any areas where Obama was uninformed or failed to perform as president to liberals liking? Or was he the all knowing Master Of The Universe that never failed at anything? As for Trump’s ignorance on a wide range of issues, I know nothing about playing the bagpipes or MiG welding...everyone has a wide range of things they know absolutely nothing about.

 

[pool_hustler]

The first amendment does not protect one from action against slander or libelous accusations. The damn book was about HIM, it’s not like he is seeking to ban The Grapes Of Wrath from school rooms.

How many of the same kind of books have been written about Obama or Clinton without either taking or even threatening legal action?
Trump has, on more than one occasion, also threatened the free press.

At the very least, the guy has the thinnest skin of any president in my lifetime, with nobody else even within shouting distance.

If Trump is an idiot or “ dumb as ****”, we need more idiocy because the economy is chugging along at a nice clip now.

Well at least you didn't use the term "skyrocketing", which so many conservatives currently are, and which is so out of line with reality.
Other than the stock market I'm not seeing all that much chugging going on. His job creation numbers are slightly behind Obamas. It appears he's going to come in at under 3.0 GDP in his first year, numbers that conservatives spit on when Obama was prez. Don't get me wrong - I really hope Trump does well in that arena. But for now it's almost funny watching so many righties swooning over numbers that are not swoon worthy. Or at least that certainly weren't considered so under Obama, despite the obvious impact the massive global recession had on many of them.

A question, was there any areas where Obama was uninformed or failed to perform as president to liberals liking?

Yep. He farmed out the ACA to his bean counters and they fucked up, which ended up being a *********** for him and made many believe he lied about it. I'm not surprised he delegated so much of its detail considering everybody [except our current genius of a president] was already aware of how complicated health care could be. But when he was preparing to roll it out he really needed to be sure he wasn't making any false promises, and in that he failed.
He was also naïve early on about just how oppositional republicans were going to be, and also about Russia.
He should never have said the police "acted stupidly" while arresting Gates. I can understand WHY he did but it was still wrong, and something he ended up regretting. Then again, with Trump we get ill-considered, inflammatory statements almost every day and never any indications of subsequent regret.
Personally I didn't like that he stayed in Afghanistan so long, but I can't say for sure at this point which of us was right about that.

As for Trump’s ignorance on a wide range of issues, I know nothing about playing the bagpipes or MiG welding...everyone has a wide range of things they know absolutely nothing about.

He didn't even know what the nuclear triad was. He wonders why nobody asks why we had a civil war He routinely spews incorrect information via his twitter account. One could go on and on with such examples. He has ONE specific area of expertise, and has failed at times even within that area. Other than that, he's not well read, or well spoken. FFS you and I both know far more about history and foreign relations than our current president. That was not the case with our last one.

 

[Jack Davenport]

How many of the same kind of books have been written about Obama or Clinton without either taking or even threatening legal action?
Trump has, on more than one occasion, also threatened the free press.

At the very least, the guy has the thinnest skin of any president in my lifetime, with nobody else even within shouting distance.

If Trump is an idiot or “ dumb as ****”, we need more idiocy because the economy is chugging along at a nice clip now.

Well at least you didn't use the term "skyrocketing", which so many conservatives currently are, and which is so out of line with reality.
Other than the stock market I'm not seeing all that much chugging going on. His job creation numbers are slightly behind Obamas. It appears he's going to come in at under 3.0 GDP in his first year, numbers that conservatives spit on when Obama was prez. Don't get me wrong - I really hope Trump does well in that arena. But for now it's almost funny watching so many righties swooning over numbers that are not swoon worthy. Or at least that certainly weren't considered so under Obama, despite the obvious impact the massive global recession had on many of them.

A question, was there any areas where Obama was uninformed or failed to perform as president to liberals liking?

Yep. He farmed out the ACA to his bean counters and they fucked up, which ended up being a *********** for him and made many believe he lied about it. I'm not surprised he delegated so much of its detail considering everybody [except our current genius of a president] was already aware of how complicated health care could be. But when he was preparing to roll it out he really needed to be sure he wasn't making any false promises, and in that he failed.
He was also naïve early on about just how oppositional republicans were going to be, and also about Russia.
He should never have said the police "acted stupidly" while arresting Gates. I can understand WHY he did but it was still wrong, and something he ended up regretting. Then again, with Trump we get ill-considered, inflammatory statements almost every day and never any indications of subsequent regret.
Personally I didn't like that he stayed in Afghanistan so long, but I can't say for sure at this point which of us was right about that.



He didn't even know what the nuclear triad was. He wonders why nobody asks why we had a civil war He routinely spews incorrect information via his twitter account. One could go on and on with such examples. He has ONE specific area of expertise, and has failed at times even within that area. Other than that, he's not well read, or well spoken. FFS you and I both know far more about history and foreign relations than our current president. That was not the case with our last one.

Let’s take Obama and the books written about him. Culture Of Corruption, The Case Against Barack Obama and Obama Nation all hit him at his ideology, temperament and vision as well as his influences. None were written by someone claiming to have inside access to aides and whose accounts were disputed by members of their own party. The “ masterpiece” written by Wolff makes claims that current staff members dispute and are supportive of legal action against fabricated firsthand accounts.

I may have to concede a point with Clinton, the Starr Report was unflattering.

If by knowing “foreign relations” you mean loading pallets with cold hard cash and sending it to Iran in the middle of the night or allowing “ Cash For Clunkers” cars to go to West Africa unimpeded loaded with contraband to fund Hezbollah then yeah, Trump doesn’t know much about things like that.

All of the things about Trump’s ignorance are coming from those not sympathetic to him, where are McMaster or Tillerson’s statements admitting to calling him a moron? Is there documentation other than a awkward debate answer that he didn’t know what the Nuclear Triad is? Carly Fiorina gave an answer that made her seem to know more about naval ****** than Elmo Zumwalt. I am sure she wasn’t coached at all. Even if he didn’t know the terminology for our defense system he certainly knew the components individually.

But anyway, yeah we get it, Trump is a simpleton, so was Reagan the actor and pretty much any conservative.

 

[Johan]

Let’s take Obama and the books written about him. Culture Of Corruption, The Case Against Barack Obama and Obama Nation all hit him at his ideology, temperament and vision as well as his influences. None were written by someone claiming to have inside access to aides and whose accounts were disputed by members of their own party. The “ masterpiece” written by Wolff makes claims that current staff members dispute and are supportive of legal action against fabricated firsthand accounts.

Then, if Wolff's book is made of fabricated testimonies, why doesn't Steve Bannon denied what Woff claims he said ? Because he did made these quoptes and he knows Woff can prove it.
Why did Trump immediately wen to Twitter claiming Bannon had lost his mind ? Because he knows Bannon did made these quotes and he's furious about it

Michael Wolff Says Trump’s Legal Response ‘Proves the Point of the Book’

WASHINGTON — Michael Wolff defended his newly released book on the Trump White House in the face of attacks from the president, White House staff, and his legal team.

In his first interview on “Today” regarding “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Wolff was asked about a cease and desist letter sent on Thursday by Trump’s lawyer, an effort to stop the publication of the tome. His response? “Where do I send the box of chocolates?”
“Not only is he helping me sell books, but he is helping me prove the point of the book,” Wolff said. “This is extraordinary that the president of the United States would try to stop the publication of a book. This doesn’t happen, has not happened from other presidents, would not even happen from a CEO of a mid-sized company.”

As excerpts from the book have been published and details have been ******, the fly-on-the-wall quotes and assertions have been a sensation in Washington and the media world, and are likely to be picked apart for days, if not weeks.

Trump himself weighed in late on Thursday, sending a tweet in which he said he “never spoke to him for the book.”
“Full of lies, misrepresentations, and sources that don’t exist,” Trump wrote.

In the interview, Wolff said he did talk to Trump, and “whether he realized it was an interview or not, I don’t know. But it certainly was not off the record.”
“My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who have ever walked on earth at this point,” Wolff said.

His publisher, Henry Holt & Co., moved up the release date to Friday, despite the legal threat.
“One of the things that we have to count on is that Donald Trump will ******,” Wolff said. “He will send lawyers’ letters. This is a 35-year history of how he approaches everything.”

The book portrays Trump as woefully unfit for office. Wolff said “100% of the people around him “question his ability to do the job.”
“I will tell you the one description that everyone gave; they all say he is like a *****,” Wolff said.

He also said he has material to back up his claims in the book.
“I work like every journalist works, so I have recordings, I have notes. I am certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything I have reported in this book,” he said.

http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-today-interview-trump-1202654212/


The fact that the publisher reated to the legal action by releasing it early is particulary relevant : it shows bothy the publisher and M. Wolff are 100% comfortable, they know they can back what's written in the book, they know it's just bullying from Trump, they know they have nothing to fear...

 

[Jack Davenport]

Then, if Wolff's book is made of fabricated testimonies, why doesn't Steve Bannon denied what Woff claims he said ? Because he did made these quoptes and he knows Woff can prove it.
Why did Trump immediately wen to Twitter claiming Bannon had lost his mind ? Because he knows Bannon did made these quotes and he's furious about it


http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-today-interview-trump-1202654212/


The fact that the publisher reated to the legal action by releasing it early is particulary relevant : it shows bothy the publisher and M. Wolff are 100% comfortable, they know they can back what's written in the book, they know it's just bullying from Trump, they know they have nothing to fear...

Because Bannon is a fraud. He released the book early for increased sales, he’s going to need the extra money to pay his legal team. He is also waffling about what he has on tape.

 

[Johan]

He is also waffling about what he has on tape.

I guess you can back this with facts, otherwise you woudn't make such claims. Would you ?

 

[Jack Davenport]

I guess you can back this with facts, otherwise you woudn't make such claims. Would you ?

It is in his interview with Savannah Guthrie, documented interview. Google it.

 

[Rey C.]

I think the book will be very interesting, for both sides, whether pro-Trump or against him

I agree with this.

As a person who was solidly against Hillary and also did not support Trump, I'm in the peanut gallery... praying for the nation, while observing these odd and curious goings on.

 

[Supafly]

Good thing for all of us:

Either way, the issue with this crazy presidency will play out in more or less short time. Things escalate, and so, we should not make the mistgake and get carried away over something we have very little leverage in.

I am with my mate Rey C. here:

Sit back, and watch the dump truck burn down.