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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 02:28 PM Dec 2019

MAGAt's are promoting a bizarre website that claims the president's IQ is 156 'at the minimum'

One of President Donald Trump’s favorite insults is to label someone as “low IQ,” even though the president himself has never released his own IQ score.

However, a bizarre website that’s being cited by some Trump supporters claims that the president’s IQ score is 156 “at the minimum.”

The website in question was flagged this week by the Twitter user @Halalcoholism, who says that they learned about it by following the conversations of pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theorists who were trying to convince skeptics that the president really is a very stable genius.

“Mr Trump was a student at Wharton when it was possible to derive and accurate IQ test scores from known SAT scores,” the website claims. “Given the usual requirements for admission to a top school like Wharton. I estimate that Mr. Trump has a 156 IQ at the minimum.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-supporters-are-promoting-a-bizarre-website-that-claims-the-presidents-iq-is-156-at-the-minimum/


George Conway responds: "maybe they are on some kind of metric system"
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MAGAt's are promoting a bizarre website that claims the president's IQ is 156 'at the minimum' (Original Post) DesertRat Dec 2019 OP
John Dean-Mistake, that is his average golf score for 18 holes. Gothmog Dec 2019 #1
Haha, I love it! DesertRat Dec 2019 #4
Fourth grade vocabulary with a 156? Lexee Dec 2019 #2
You know that that means: Obama's I.Q. must be 155 😂 TheBlackAdder Dec 2019 #33
Ah ha. Probably. Lexee Dec 2019 #39
Many people say it's 651. dalton99a Dec 2019 #3
Actually, 666. MH1 Dec 2019 #26
Oh, bull crap! 3catwoman3 Dec 2019 #5
Windmills cause cancer Cartoonist Dec 2019 #6
That's just silly. People with IQ scores that high always MineralMan Dec 2019 #7
I think that 105 is too generous DesertRat Dec 2019 #18
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt... MineralMan Dec 2019 #21
I doubt Dolt45 can even count that high. nt tblue37 Dec 2019 #8
Great syntax/grammar: "... when it was possible to derive and accurate IQ test scores..." CurtEastPoint Dec 2019 #9
Yeah, the editors must be on holiday break. nt DesertRat Dec 2019 #19
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king 0rganism Dec 2019 #10
The autocrat is the world's greatest thinker. Eugene Dec 2019 #11
156 is actually correct. Throck Dec 2019 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author bluedye33139 Dec 2019 #13
That's the collective number for their entire group, right? SeattleVet Dec 2019 #14
Let them masturbate. We can only control things that are under our control. Blue_true Dec 2019 #15
Methinks someone dropped a decimal point someplace rurallib Dec 2019 #16
That would be his Idiot Quotient GeorgeGist Dec 2019 #17
He used a sharpie to put a 1 NewJeffCT Dec 2019 #20
People with a 156 IQ can close an umbrella. Patterson Dec 2019 #22
"People who boast about their IQ are losers" Dukkha Dec 2019 #23
It's true. IQ is what dumbfucks think represents intelligence. coti Dec 2019 #24
"Given the usual requirements for admission to a top school like Wharton" DBoon Dec 2019 #25
Not to mention it's not even the real Wharton, at least not in the common parlance ... mr_lebowski Dec 2019 #28
Trump did not attend Wharton graduate school. C_U_L8R Dec 2019 #27
Hard to know whether the people writing 'and' article like this even know the difference ... mr_lebowski Dec 2019 #29
Trump is not intelligent - he's mobster smart HumblePi Dec 2019 #30
156# over the 239# he claims he weighs. fierywoman Dec 2019 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author RestoreAmerica2020 Dec 2019 #32
Magats think trump is entirely a supreme creature of logic. Their emotions tell them so ! lunasun Dec 2019 #34
Unfortunately he rolled a 3 for Wisdom Johonny Dec 2019 #35
and a 8 for Constitution. Xolodno Dec 2019 #36
Even if it was true...I.Q. tests are bullshit. Xolodno Dec 2019 #37
Dotard was wise enough to refuse an IQ test. keithbvadu2 Dec 2019 #38
Waist size maybe Generic Other Dec 2019 #40
Let's see if I remember how to convert that. Subtract 32... NotASurfer Dec 2019 #41

MineralMan

(146,329 posts)
7. That's just silly. People with IQ scores that high always
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 02:33 PM
Dec 2019

have large vocabularies that they can use without even trying. Trump's vocabulary is that of a fourth-grader. My guess is that his IQ is about 105. It may have been a little higher than that when he was younger, but not much. One thing's certain: It's on its way down now.

0rganism

(23,970 posts)
10. in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 02:36 PM
Dec 2019

his followers wouldn't know the difference between Trump and an actual genius.

Eugene

(61,945 posts)
11. The autocrat is the world's greatest thinker.
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 02:38 PM
Dec 2019

100% consistent with any cult of personality, including the one for this "stable genius."

Response to DesertRat (Original post)

SeattleVet

(5,479 posts)
14. That's the collective number for their entire group, right?
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 03:11 PM
Dec 2019

Either that or they're using a new and strange 1-1000 scale for IQ.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
15. Let them masturbate. We can only control things that are under our control.
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 03:12 PM
Dec 2019

We need to get more people registered to vote, and rollback republican voter suppression by getting people kicked off voting rolls re-registered.

Dukkha

(7,341 posts)
23. "People who boast about their IQ are losers"
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 04:47 PM
Dec 2019

In a 2004 interview with the New York Times, Professor Stephen Hawking was asked what his IQ was.
He said "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers."

coti

(4,612 posts)
24. It's true. IQ is what dumbfucks think represents intelligence.
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 04:51 PM
Dec 2019

That's not to say that "smart" people aren't "really smart"- they are. But its about much more than a number, and the types of people who immediately jump to IQ as the most meaningful intelligence measure aren't even on the same planet as those with actual high IQ's, intelligence-wise.

DBoon

(22,397 posts)
25. "Given the usual requirements for admission to a top school like Wharton"
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 04:59 PM
Dec 2019

Usual requirements are waived for the spawn of the wealthy

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
28. Not to mention it's not even the real Wharton, at least not in the common parlance ...
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 05:19 PM
Dec 2019

His saying he graduated Wharton is like saying you graduated Harvard Law cause you had a couple courses pertaining to legal stuff at Harvard ... while working on your BA there.

C_U_L8R

(45,020 posts)
27. Trump did not attend Wharton graduate school.
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 05:13 PM
Dec 2019

He has a Bachelors in Economics from UPenn via Wharton's undergrad program.
Trump certainly doesn't have an MBA from anywhere, especially not Wharton.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
29. Hard to know whether the people writing 'and' article like this even know the difference ...
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 05:22 PM
Dec 2019

Or if they do, and they're just completely full of shit.

Given that, as we know, everything surrounding IQ45's Cult of Personality is based on bullshit, divvied out to stupid people.

There likely not an undergrad program in this country where the average IQ of people in it ... is 156. Unless it's a tiny class, at a school doing something extremely specialized.

BTW, does anyone even KNOW Orange Anus' SAT scores? I've sure as hell never heard what they were.

HumblePi

(46 posts)
30. Trump is not intelligent - he's mobster smart
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 05:28 PM
Dec 2019

Trump criticized Obama's grades but Michael Cohen sent letters to his alma maters, threatening to take legal action if any of Trump’s own academic records were ever made public. Trump only got into the prestigious schools through the influence of his father Fred.

Donald Trump has a mobster intellect. He's street-savvy and book-dumb.

Response to DesertRat (Original post)

keithbvadu2

(36,906 posts)
38. Dotard was wise enough to refuse an IQ test.
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 08:08 PM
Dec 2019

Dotard was wise enough to refuse an IQ test.

MENSA offered to give him one after he ridiculed Rex Tillerson's intelligence.

NotASurfer

(2,154 posts)
41. Let's see if I remember how to convert that. Subtract 32...
Fri Dec 27, 2019, 12:18 AM
Dec 2019

then multiply by 5/9. Comes out to just about 69. That sounds more like where his standard IQ should measure

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