Haaretz: Is Trump Really a 'Moron,' as Tillerson Said, or Just Racist and Obnoxious?

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Is Trump Really a 'Moron,' as Tillerson Said, or Just Racist and Obnoxious?

Columnist Chemi Shalev noted — like MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson — that in his Wednesday press conference, Tillerson declined to deny that he’d ever uttered the epithet to describe the president.

“Stupidity is one of the more easily accessible and widespread explanations for Trump’s behavior,” Shalev said. “It’s true that Trump has claimed in the past that his IQ is much higher than that of Obama or of comedian John Stewart, but in that case, he’s doing an excellent job of concealing his intelligence, as his visit this week to Puerto Rico showed.”

“(R)ather than trying to cheer up Puerto Ricans, as he did in Texas, or console them, as he would later do in Las Vegas,” wrote Shalev, “Trump insulted the island’s residents on their own home turf. He told them they should be grateful they weren’t hit with a ‘real catastrophe’ like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. He didn’t stop complaining about the drain of Puerto Rican recovery on the federal budget, which he didn’t even mention in Texas or Florida. And to cap it all off, Trump was filmed tossing out paper towels to his audience in a scene deemed by one broadcaster as ‘the least presidential ever.’”

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“Prejudice and racial stereotypes are such a prominent feature of his personality, they maintain, that he just can’t keep them under lock,” he wrote, then noted that the president has provided plenty of evidence to bolster those critics’ assessment.

“He has described himself as ‘the least racist person ever,’ but since he launched his presidential run by describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers,” he wrote, “Trump has described Puerto Ricans as lazy, Muslims as wannabe terrorists, African-Americans as thugs, Jews as proficient with money and women as inferior sexual objects. It’s only among neo-Nazis, apparently, that Trump has found ‘some fine people.’”

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“But even if we assume that Trump is far from stupid, and definitely not a ‘moron,’” Shalev concluded, “most people would agree that both his election and his presidency are an insult to America’s intelligence, as well as the world’s.”

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[Xipe Totec]

1. All of the above. Trump can multi-trash nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. One more time.

Trump knows absolutely nothing, at all, about business, hotels, golf courses or restaurants.

He knows absolutely nothing about America, history, language, science, NOTHING.

Ahh, Eliot really means trump is insufferable and a real asshole.

NO, I dont mean that, sure he is that also, but he knows nothing, AT ALL. He didnt go to school at least not college, he paid someone to do his studies for him and somehow it was arranged that he didnt have to take tests or someone else was allowed to do it for him.

Why? Because he is very stupid, illiterate, lazy, dumb, etc.

For real, folks.

[Chemisse]

8. His stupidity really cannot be overstated.

So much forethought and shrewdness is attributed to him and his actions, but the real answer is - as Rex Tillerson famously said - he is a fucking moron.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Why do people think he owes the russians so much money?

Which he obviously does, it is because he is a failure at business, always has to file bankruptcy and he ran out of places to borrow money.

[Solly Mack]

3. One can be all three.

[unblock]

4. he's a moron, that's why republicans are frustrated with him.

they are not bothered that he's a white nationalist,

they are only bothered by his incompetence as exhibited in his inability to pass their white nationalist agenda.

[GoCubsGo]

5. He is an obnoxious, racist moron.

None of them are mutually exclusive.

[samnsara]

6. no, he's a moron...

[ImpeachTheGOP]

7. He's not stupid but he's ignorant as fuck.

There is a difference.

[TonyPDX]

10. Yes

[smirkymonkey]

11. All of the above.

And more.