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Summary

A new book, A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reveals Donald Trump's ignorance on key historical and geopolitical issues.

During a 2017 visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, Trump reportedly asked, "What's this all about?" showing a lack of understanding of Pearl Harbor.

The book also details Trump's confusion over India's border with China, his eagerness to meet Vladimir Putin before taking office, and his frustration with anti-bribery laws.

The authors claim their findings are based on extensive interviews and documents.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Intelligence on par with the Americans that voted for him, twice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Billionaires are mostly all idiots who never had to actually educate themselves. Out of the 760 of them in the USA 12-15 of them are probably in the 130+ iq range and the rest are barely above or below the 100 median range. Even with their expensive private education most of them likely paid others to do their school work like george bush was rumored to have at yale. Then with nixon and reagan severely cutting education standards at the direction of their mutual consultant roger freeman saying that we were en route for a highly educated proletariat which was a threat to them and would result in mass unemployment (since people who are intelligent enough can easily understand capitalism is exploitative and many of the wages offered are not worth the effort input) now we are in a full fledged fascist hellscape. They are so emboldened they dont even attempt to hide it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 18 hours ago

The guy looked straight into the sun. There is no ending to "Trump doesn't understand... " that would surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

This loser has had a silver spoon shoved up his ass his entire life. Hey, weren't conservatives supposed to be against that kind of thing? Oh wait, conservatives don't actually have standards. Trump hasn't been forced to learn or grow because of that silver spoon. That's why he's an 80 year old man that acts like a 5 year old child and is about as intelligent as one. Does anyone, other than idiots, expect him to know anything about American history?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

"When Mr Trump early in his tenure agreed to feature in an HBO documentary in which all living presidents read from the constitution, Mr Trump blamed others in the room when he struggled to read the text.

"It's like a foreign language,” he allegedly complained."

People are often saying "hurr durr Trump can't read," but even that is not really a joke - the man truly is barely literate.

What have you done America, what the hell have you done...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Was that regular type, or the original cursive?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Look, if you invited me for a film where random lemmy-users read constitutions, I would fucking memorize that shit so that I could do it with my eyes closed. Old cursive sucks to read, and I definitely can't read it as fast as I can talk... but come on.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago

What have you done America, what the hell have you done…

Apparently nothing much in terms of general education.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

What have you done America, what the hell have you done…

Sided with an anti-intellectual felon rapist traitor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Book came out in 2020, why are they talking about it like it's new?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I agree and don't understand either.

The first thing I noticed when looking for it is that it is from after his last term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I see. 👍

[–] [email protected] 72 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

During a meeting with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister’s “eyes bulged out in surprise”, the Washington Post reporters claim, when Mr Trump told him: “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.” China and India in fact share more than 2,000 miles of common border.

Mr Modi’s expression “shifted from shock and concern to resignation”

Modi is all of us. Shocked at the stupidity, concerned for our well being then resigned to the fact Trump doesn't even care about either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

He appears to be unaware that Russia is a neighbour to the US.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket's red glare it had nothing but victory.

Trump speaking about the Revolutionary War. I'm supposed to be surprised he doesn't "get" Pearl Harbour?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

We dominated the air in the revolutionary war for sure, but it was mainly because Britain didn’t have any airports.

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