I just realized, Trump is actually stupider than the fictional president in Idiocracy!

[Towlie]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

[htuttle]

1. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was...

...smart enough to know that he should find a smart person to solve a problem.

[Aristus]

2. Yeah. President Hector Mountain Dew Camacho knew there was a problem.

And he knew it could only be solved by the smartest person in the country.

More to the point, he wanted it to be solved so people would stop suffering.

On edit: Oops! Got the name wrong - see above.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. I've lost count of how many times my husband and I have said that to one another.

After hearing about this we just looked at each other and mouthed "Idiocracy."

[Doodley]

4. The difference is Trump is too stupid to know that he is stupid. He thinks he's a genius.

[Towlie]

7. That's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[exboyfil]

5. You have to wonder about history books

In 50 years what the hell were they thinking (assuming their are history books 50 years from now - no guarantee).

[BootinUp]

6. Entertainment for the base. Distraction.

Stop taking him seriously.