The Untruth Social thread focuses on the dishonesty of Trump and his administration, and the Trump and mental illness thread covers his psychopathology, but I think we also need a thread focusing on his stupidity.
No better place to start than with the 2018 Twitter quote that inspired the OP title:
Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star, to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
That quote is its own best refutation, because no one who was truly a stable genius would be stupid enough to say that he was “a very stable genius” and “like, really smart.” Trump is neither, and this thread will soon be full of examples proving it.
In the “Trump and mental illness” thread, I mentioned how Grandpa, right in the middle of his meeting with oil executives, got up and wandered over to the window to gaze at the site of his new ballroom. He said “Wow. What a view. This is the door to the ballroom.” As he was coming back, he said “Unusual time to look, but I figured we might as well do it.”
Then there was the moment that Marco Rubio slipped him a private note, and instead of reading it first, Grandpa just blurted out “Marco just gave me a note. ‘Go back to Chevron.They want to discuss something.'” The man is clueless.
Trump reads Marco Rubio’s private note out loud — Rubio can’t hide his shock
One of his many irritating qualities is his limited vocabulary. “Treated us very poorly”, “horrible, terrible, nasty” on rotation, “no-one’s ever seen anything like this” (no-one’s ever seen anything like this amount of hyperbole…).
I don’t think he’s stupid per se, but he sure says a lot of stupid things.