You just don’t
Anyway it’s true. It’s weirdly bizarrely shamingly true. I don’t know anyone as blatantly obviously shamelessly as stupid as Trump. It’s possible that I know some people who are approximately that stupid but if so they don’t flaunt it the way he does…which means they are less stupid than he is.
You can object that this unsurpassed stupidity of his got him elected president, but on the other hand it made billions of people aware of how profoundly stupid he is when they otherwise would have had no idea.
Anyway I really don’t know any other people who get up in public and babble like angry toddlers all day long. He really is uniquely thick in the head. It’s very shaming.
Oof, I shouldn’t have watched that. See how he plays his invisible accordion for that monkey brain of his. Now, it wouldn’t be so bad if he was just stupid, but he’s also an asshole. An intolerable combination.
“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
–Edith Sitwell
I’m not sure. One guy I read about (was it here??) quoted as thinking Trump is a “working class guy” like him is not the brightest bulb in the world.
I wish I thought he was the only one I’d met. I haven’t known any who had near the platform of Trump, but they were equally ignorant, equally loud, and equally proud. At least one of them was in my immediate family; I grew up with Trump.
While Trump is indeed stupid and his rambling “explanation” was painful to watch, I don’t think his remarks really should be interpreted as “the Medal of Freedom is a better award than the Medal of Honor.” You have to take Trump’s self-absorbed perspective into account and treat it like a parlor game.
“Given a choice, would you rather have a life where you get the Purple Heart award — or one where you win a free ice cream cone?”
Soldiers who have gotten the Purple Heart would probably have changed their life so they zigged instead of zagged and only won the free ice cream cone. Their widows and loved ones would agree. I think this was what Trump was getting at.
But what a stupid point to make at the time he was making it. And how stupid to not recognize it is easily misconstrued.
Congratulations Sastra, you’ve finally led me to a point of empathy with Trump, something I thought was impossible.