According to Trump, Democrats can't find a 'Smocking Gun'

[Goonie]

Save his tailor time? Have you seen how poorly his suits fit? The only way to shave any more time off that process is to dress him in a muumuu.

I’m surprised nobody’s photoshopped him in a smock yet.

 

[whatbogsends]

Even stranger than an adult that can't spell smoking, what's with all the unnecessary capital letters?

Thank goodness 9/11 happened while Bush was president. Who could possibly read these tweets and sleep soundly at night knowing our country is under the watchful eye of a person who writes like English is a second language to him?

I continue to be disappointed by the sheer, unabashed stupidity we have settled for in a leader.

It's very odd for me to agree with the sentence "Thank goodness 9/11 happened while Bush was president", but relative to the current occupant of the White House, I concur.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

I’m surprised nobody’s photoshopped him in a smock yet.

I haven't seen anything yet. But I did find this...

 

[cow451]

It's very odd for me to agree with the sentence "Thank goodness 9/11 happened while Bush was president", but relative to the current occupant of the White House, I concur.

Had Mr. Trump been President at the time..... we may have heard something like this:

“The Saudis said they had no involvement in 9/11, so ..... I love the Saudis..., they need to buy more weapons from the US.”

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Had Mr. Trump been President at the time..... we may have heard something like this:

“The Saudis said they had no involvement in 9/11, so ..... I love the Saudis..., they need to buy more weapons from the US.”

I honestly did not know how deeply in debt to Saudi Arabia our President was. Hopefully they get their money’s worth unlike his former American investors.

 

[AllButNone]

Maybe someone with a higher level of education than Trump should proofread his tweets before he posts them. I have a question: Do other very stable genius people, with one of the greatest memories of all time, like Donald Trump have trouble with spelling too?

This may be giving Trump too much credit, but I've seen the idea tossed around that he deliberately makes errors like this to deflect attention away from his bigger scandals. Any time the media spends on smocking is less time it spends covering the big stories. Also, it might play well with his base in that to them this criticism might make his critics look small and petty. (Never mind that people should want an articulate president.)

Then again, what's that expression... never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

 

[cow451]

Then again, what's that expression... never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

In some cases it could be both.

 

[LostMarbels]

This is hilarious. King of trolls I tell ya. King of Trolls. What news cycle was he able to hijack this time I wonder....

 

[TLK Valentine]

This is hilarious. King of trolls I tell ya. King of Trolls. What news cycle was he able to hijack this time I wonder....

Funny, I was wondering who was going to come charging in to defend his hidden depths of genius.

Difference is, I'm not wondering anymore.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Funny, I was wondering who was going to come charging in to defend his hidden depths of genius.

Difference is, I'm not wondering anymore.

It did take awhile for a Trump supporter to come to his defense here in my thread. I'm surprised that it wasn't much sooner than now, but I did expect one of them would show up here eventually.

 

[LostMarbels]

Funny, I was wondering who was going to come charging in to defend his hidden depths of genius.

Difference is, I'm not wondering anymore.

That shocking. I would have figured you knew were not discussing embroidery by now. But you have all the answers and your correct.

Love it!.....

 

[jgarden]

According to Trump, Democrats can't find a 'Smocking Gun'

Can't this billionaire President, at the very least, invest in a computer with "Spell Check" - savong the nation from making it painfully obvious to the rest of the world that America has a semi-illiterate serving in the Oval Office?

 

[Shiloh Raven]

According to Trump, Democrats can't find a 'Smocking Gun'

Can this billionaire President not at the very least, invest in a computer with "Spell Check" and save the nation from making it painfully obvious to the rest of the world that America has a semi-illiterate serving in the Oval Office?

Sadly, Trump's inability to correctly spell words has been going on for a long time now.

What are you smocking? A brief guide to Trump's many misspellings.

Make America Spell Again? 25 of Donald Trump's Twitter Spelling Errors

From the President's Recent Call for 'Boarder Security' to 'Covfefe': Donald Trump's Worst Typos

 

[USincognito]

This is hilarious. King of trolls I tell ya. King of Trolls. What news cycle was he able to hijack this time I wonder....

Oh man. This 27 dimensional chess shtick never ceases to amuse me.

 

[LostMarbels]

Oh man. This 27 dimensional chess shtick never ceases to amuse me.

I like the one shtick poney shtick, that calls everything a shtick.

Who said chess? I said he was a troll. It's like a herd of cattle following sugar cubes.

 

[USincognito]

I like the one shtick poney shtick, that calls everything a shtick.

Echoing my verbiage back at me? How clever.

Who said chess?

I did. One of his talk radio sycophants said he was playing X dimensional chess while everyone else is playing checkers. I can't remember if that was before or after his cult members bent over so far to defend his covfefe Tweet that they were standing on their heads. The thing is we've seen enough of this sort of stuff to realize he's not being clever, he really is exactly what we're concluding he is from his Tweets.

 

[Tom 1]

Maybe someone with a higher level of education than Trump should proofread his tweets before he posts them. I have a question: Do other very stable genius people, with one of the greatest memories of all time, like Donald Trump have trouble with spelling too? Is he the only 'like really smart person' who has trouble spelling basic words? I only saw his tweet because J.K. Rowling responded to him with: "The world's in such a state, I almost feel like taking up smocking again." I must say that I love how she responds to him. I can see why Trump was analyzed as having a fourth-grade speaking level.
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'a simple private transaction'? That's the creepiest phrase in the tweet I think.

 

[Daniel C]

Maybe someone with a higher level of education than Trump should proofread his tweets before he posts them. I have a question: Do other very stable genius people, with one of the greatest memories of all time, like Donald Trump have trouble with spelling too? Is he the only 'like really smart person' who has trouble spelling basic words? I only saw his tweet because J.K. Rowling responded to him with: "The world's in such a state, I almost feel like taking up smocking again." I must say that I love how she responds to him. I can see why Trump was analyzed as having a fourth-grade speaking level.
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From my experience I would say intelligence leaves evidence.

A spelling mistake is just that: A grammatical error but is it proof of intelligence?

Trump was smart enough to win the presidency and become a billionaire. Pretty striking evidence.

 

[iluvatar5150]

From my experience I would say intelligence leaves evidence.

Indeed, it does.

A spelling mistake is just that: A grammatical error but is it proof of intelligence?

Not necessarily, but he makes them often enough that, at best, it suggests a carelessness and a willingness to be perceived as unintelligent. Most intelligent people I know would take the time to correct mistakes like that.

But to your point, I would argue that the content, rather than the spelling, of his comments is a much better indicator of his intelligence. And his content is arguably worse than his spelling.

Trump was smart enough to win the presidency and become a billionaire. Pretty striking evidence.

It's a lot easier to become a billionaire when your dad is worth hundreds of millions and hands you his successful business and decades worth of political connections.

And his campaign and part of his wealth were both fueled by his ability to market himself, which he's obviously good at. But self-aggrandizement of that kind only works when people can't effectively evaluate the merits of your claims and your ongoing job performance. We don't have the financials for his businesses, so we don't know how successful they really are, and we can't compare his performance running the Trump Organization to the performance of anybody else, because nobody else has ever done it. But now that he's president, doing a job that requires something more than branding and making things pretty, and where the results are on stark display every day and able to be compared to several predecessors, he's failing miserably. It's obvious that he's extremely limited in his ability to adapt to new situations and engage on subjects outside of those he already knows.

I do think that many folks are inclined to go too far in proclaiming how not smart or not successful he's been. But he's also far from the stable genius that he and his fans wish to believe him to be.

 

[Daniel C]

Indeed, it does.



Not necessarily, but he makes them often enough that, at best, it suggests a carelessness and a willingness to be perceived as unintelligent. Most intelligent people I know would take the time to correct mistakes like that.

But to your point, I would argue that the content, rather than the spelling, of his comments is a much better indicator of his intelligence. And his content is arguably worse than his spelling.



It's a lot easier to become a billionaire when your dad is worth hundreds of millions and hands you his successful business and decades worth of political connections.

And his campaign and part of his wealth were both fueled by his ability to market himself, which he's obviously good at. But self-aggrandizement of that kind only works when people can't effectively evaluate the merits of your claims and your ongoing job performance. We don't have the financials for his businesses, so we don't know how successful they really are, and we can't compare his performance running the Trump Organization to the performance of anybody else, because nobody else has ever done it. But now that he's president, doing a job that requires something more than branding and making things pretty, and where the results are on stark display every day and able to be compared to several predecessors, he's failing miserably. It's obvious that he's extremely limited in his ability to adapt to new situations and engage on subjects outside of those he already knows.

I do think that many folks are inclined to go too far in proclaiming how not smart or not successful he's been. But he's also far from the stable genius that he and his fans wish to believe him to be.

He was smart enough to put together a political campaign that won the presidency and become a billionaire. All the rest is commentary.