"Trump has the intellectual depth of a coat of paint"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

That devastating but clearly accurate description of the President is by Charles M. Blow in his column in today’s New York Times,  which has the title Trump's Degradation of Language.

Blow is on fire in this piece.

He begins

One of the more pernicious and insidious effects of the Donald Trump regime may well be the damage he does to language itself.

In the next paragraph Blow tells us

Trumpian language is a thing unto itself: some manner of sophistry peppered with superlatives. It is a way of speech that defies the Reed-Kellogg sentence diagram. It is a jumble of incomplete thoughts stitched together with arrogance and ignorance.

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[RKP5637]

1. One interesting thing about Trump is, he self-destructs all by himself. He's like spontaneous

combustion. He's so conflicted, he talks all he says into a muddle and unintelligible, and laughable, all by himself, until what he initially said becomes irrelevant.

[Rollo]

2. I prefer to think of Trump in terms of a stain...

[bora13]

3. intellectual depth of a coat of paint

more like the depth of a barnacle and algae covered coat of paint on a boat bottom.

[panader0]

4. He paid other kids to do his homework.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Where is credible evidence of your allegation? Or are you using DU to post "alt-facts"?

[panader0]

12. Relax already---it's a joke

Attention DU--it's a joke.

[WinkyDink]

13. You're kidding, right?!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. It's the kind of statement about tRump that is so very possible. Could be true. Maybe not. . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Here is the properly trimmed URL that doesn't point back to your email ID

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/1/1657780/--Trump-has-the-intellectual-depth-of-a-coat-of-paint

[lambchopp59]

7. It must be getting an incredibly difficult job for Sean Hannity

To keep whitewashing, misrepresenting and defending the Orange Buffoon. I killed my teevee way back in the RayGun days when I had a tendency to throw things at it and it has remained a non-entity in my household since. I'm curious to search clips of how he's defending Frump's cozying up to evil dictators, or if he even bothers to mention this.
But when I had the unfortunate task of placing my Fox-noise addicted late father in a nursing home a few years back, the stretches of anything resembling truth he accepted as gospel from both blowhards Bill-O and the Hannitary napkin were astounding.

[Demtexan]

8. His daddy paid for his grades.

Dump just went around bulling people.

[briv1016]

9. That's not yellow paint.

[burrowowl]

10. Click on Blow's Article

Good read, I like parataxis.

[L. Coyote]

11. The resignation is coming fast, I hope.

[Gothmog]

15. A very thin coat of paint