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Originally Posted by GrussGott
However smart Trump was then, those times are long past because now he doesn't know most basic facts about things he's supposedly making great deals on.
He's just regurgitating misrepresentations he hears on Fox News, which is why his base is so strong: that's also where they get their facts. We have 30%-40% of our country living in alternate Fox News reality.
* "The money is pouring into NATO coffers" - not how NATO works
* "immigrants are streaming across borders like never before" - 46 year low
* "Trade deal are killing the American economy" - profits have never been higher
* The Swedish terror attack that didn't exist
* The caravan story that was completely wrong
* The Bowling Green massacre
The list is pretty infinite. And his modern solution to border crossings is a massively expensive medieval structure similar to the French Maginot line (which, btw, would be bookended by oceans)
So however smart he was then, he's now a clueless fool.
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I don't think that's a list of examples of him being an idiot. He is basically selling everyone within his reach what they want. For example if I was to do the same here I'd post a meme of a dog running around a golf course with an expensive earphones while his master is parking a BMW badly. Done, I'd get so many likes I'd be popular!
Now, reading a room and being able to actually be factual while negotiating a deal with long term implications to peoole is hard as we saw with the tpp and the Syrian refugees in Europe. A politician that can actually appeal to voters enough to get them to work with them for a better future is something we haven't had in a while.
"ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." I'm not sure I translated that correctly but some redhead who didn't get much love from Texas said that.