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In reply to the discussion: Here are Trump's exact words from yesterday....Just to keep it clear to all...CNN: [View all]localroger
(3,629 posts)You would be right if he knew he was spouting bullshit. But I don't think he knew that. I think he thought he was really dispensing some brilliant insight that these overeducated people were just too wrapped up in their ivory towers to see. He knows he has a problem; he doesn't understand medicine but he does understand popularity, and his habits in that direction go deep enough to be immune to whatever is shorting out his ability to process new information. But as the poster child for Dunning Kruger, he doesn't know he's spouting bullshit. For his entire life he has convinced himself that he is the smartest person in the room and the sharpest operator, because he's also spun every bad thing that ever happened to him into a sucess story (e.g. "bankruptcy is a briliant use of the financial laws as they exist." So in his mind he is really making daring connections that might lead to a miracle cure, which need to be pursued as quickly as possible to save his ass in November.
I am sure the horror in Dr. Brix's face came from the realization that while they thought they had the problem of Trump's flights of fancy contained they obvoiusly didn't, and there is no telling what crazy thing he will come up with next without even giving them a chance to talk him down.