I don't think he's a moron at all

Yeah, definitely.

His awful decision-making is mostly based on lack of understanding and knowledge

rather than pure stupidity.

He shows signs of real mental decline too

But he’s an old man- that he has a massive@l lack of understanding and knowledge is what makes him a moron

Well, depends on how you define it.

To me there's a difference between an unintelligent person and an uneducated person.

I am far from the idea that he's a 200-IQ genius, but he's also not stupid.

“He’s not stupid, he’s just willfully ignorant”

Just uneducated on most political topics.

That too.

Sometimes he plays dumb.

There’s no meaningful distinction when you’re talking about how that affects the actions you take

Being unable to understand something, and being ignorant of something, lead to the same conclusion and practice in the real world.

Well, if you frame it like that, sure, of course.

I also do worry about Biden's age now that we're at it.

I'm a tin foil hat wearer, so I think Trump's role was to help along America's role as 'THE Bad Guy' for the next major global confict of good versus evil

Trump will be fine but his base will not be trusted ever again, especially if they do something silly during the Senate Impeachment Trial, which seems likely

It seems as though trump has difficulty processing abstract concepts

To be fair, that's not average American's strong suite either. In that respect, he's just 'normal' for here

America is a 'sensor' country

Haha

I think he is below average in that regard

Certainly for college graduates

A whole mini publishing industry was built up around this idea, Edward De Bono, etc

And I think the brain atrophies after having no intellectual pursuits for so long

helping Americans regain abstract thinking

Bush was someone with very little intellectual curiosity but who was not “stupid”

I truly think trump is both intellectual incurious and stupid

Not sure how I would compare BUsh and Trump. I think Bush's major advantage was having a smaller ego

The ease with which he is manipulated and unable to generate theories of mind about other people shows this

Yeah I would agree with that

Bush was more personable too

Sometimes when I look at what Trump's dad did to help him out financially, I wonder if Don was an experiment and the subject of some odd form of abuse

I met and had a 15min convo wtih Ivanka once, she struck me as pretty cool at the time, long time ago though now

I don't think she knew Kushner then, I'm pretty sure she was single etc, was doing the fashion model thing while negotiating some of their deals with saudi arabia(that was subject of talk she gave)

They married in 09 hmmmm I don't think it was much earlier than that

Huh cool

Yeah, she and Jared aren’t idiots as far as I can tell

Trump is the best president we've had in 27 years. Prove me wrong