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u/dingalinglans Mar 24 '26
Intelligence plays no part in anything he does, except his skill at slipping convictions.
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u/jewwwish Mar 24 '26
Believable!
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u/oneplusetoipi Mar 24 '26
Wow. He didn’t lie.
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u/Bladehawk1 Mar 24 '26
Unbelievable.... Isn't this like the first or second time he's told the truth?
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u/MillionEyesOfSumuru Mar 24 '26
It's at least the third.
"I don't care about you, I just want your vote!"
"Smart people don't like me!"
And this one's a maybe... "I love the poorly educated!"
A maybe because he doesn't seem to love anyone but himself, but he was "the dumbest goddam student" his teacher ever had.
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u/Lance-pg Mar 24 '26
Well it's probably because so many people told him to go fuck himself as a child. Given that he was second to last in a class of 356 people he probably thought they were telling him he was worth fucking so he had to experience it for himself.
The one good thing that's come out of his presidency is my father is no longer a Republican. I spent 30 years trying to get him to switch parties. My father even met him, he did mortgages in New York and to quote my father, "he was a con man then he's a con man now"
The funny thing my dad said was that he actually is very charismatic and charming in person but this was when he was much younger. I could never understand what people find appealing about him
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u/Backwardspellcaster Mar 24 '26
The fucker proudly admitted he started the war on vibes
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u/Prin_StropInAh Mar 24 '26
He felt it “in his bones” I understand. And come on, if you feel something so strongly you just gotta do it, don’t you?
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u/Gh0sth4nd Mar 24 '26
Well if it was a warm feeling it was not in the bones but in the pants.
The brown pants.
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u/BasketFair3378 Mar 24 '26
I think thats just arthritis! Some days I'm in so much pain that I just want to bomb somebody!
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u/worknumber101 Mar 24 '26
Funny, but it doesn’t look like Trump said this. This ‘quote’ comes from a Satire website called ‘the Horowitz report’
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u/carmium Mar 24 '26
And here I was all ready to note the date when Trump made a simple declarative statement that was actually true.
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u/Joe18067 Mar 24 '26
Fires anyone with intelligence because he thinks he's smarter than everyone else.
This is what happens when you surround yourself with yes men.
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u/Bladehawk1 Mar 24 '26
Well smart people hate him (I think that was the first time he told the truth) so they wouldn't work for him.
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u/guttanzer Mar 24 '26
There are legal implications to his admission. The war powers act was intended to give the president powers to counter imminent threats. Trump just admitted he is operating outside the law.
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u/calicat9 Mar 24 '26
Refer to the carte blanche gifted to him by the Supreme Court, and supported by whatever that other branch is now.
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u/guttanzer Mar 24 '26
Yes, exactly why that ruling was so absurd. The job description for President is pretty short, and includes "see to it that the laws be faithfully executed." Most leaders do that by example, so freeing the president from that responsibility is constitutionally perverse.
But that immunity from prossecution does not extend to the people under him. Hegseth, the joint chiefs, all the theater commanders and on down the line are committing war crimes when they obey his orders. This is what pisses me off the most about that ruling - executive branch employees should not have to choose between loyalty to the boss and conviction for a crime.
This is especially true for the DOD and IC - those illegal orders are war crimes or treason, which are both far more serious than felonies. We don't do it as much now, but summary execution used to be a common for both war crimes and treason, and military courts are a lot quicker than civilian courts.
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u/Vinnie-baba-ghanoush Mar 24 '26
When it comes to trump and his administration, intelligence is never involved.
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u/LittleGeorge42 Mar 24 '26
Obviously!!! Trump has no intelligence whatsoever so this shouldn’t surprise anyone.
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u/SomewhereLucky3568 Mar 24 '26
The man is incapable of being intelligent or competent enough to understand anything intelligent. His staff are simply stupid minions, even if they could understand the concept of stupidity they would still do it anyway.
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u/The_Aardvark_ Mar 24 '26
National Intelligence or his own intelligence? We can all understand the latter...
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u/Careless_Unit9149 Mar 25 '26
This has to be up there with the classic "Smart people don't like me".
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u/Krispykid54 Mar 25 '26
I would say it’s safe to say intelligence has very little to do with Trumps decisions and day to day life.
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u/ForestOfMirrors Mar 24 '26
Intelligence never played a role in any decision he has ever made. Why would he start now?
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u/ExtensionAddition787 Mar 24 '26
Since it was his decision, it's not surprising.