Trump secretly believes he's stupid — and is scared you'll find out: biographer
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President Donald Trump has a deep, dark fear, according to a journalist who has spent years studying the man — and it is that people will discover he is quite literally stupid.
"Trump’s fear of this is so great, Michael Wolff tells the Inside Trump’s Head Podcast that the president’s college transcripts may very well be what Russian President Vladimir Putin holds over him," reported The Daily Beast's Sarah-Jane Collins on Sunday . "Wolff says the theory is not just his, adding that former Trump adviser Steve Bannon raised the same possibility."
During the podcast, Wolff observed that “Steve Bannon and I were talking about what Putin might have on Trump, and Bannon went through all the things dismissing them. He said, what I think he has on him are his college transcripts.”
Wolff's co-host, Joanna Coles, pointed out that despite numerous efforts from journalists, the public has yet to see either Trump's high school transcripts or his college transcripts.
“We haven’t seen his high school transcripts. We haven’t seen either of his college transcripts,” Coles told Wolff. “They have been so successful in locking that stuff down. And, you know, if they were good, he would have floated them out there immediately.”
Wolff continued, “I think top of his list, top of the things that plagues him is being seen as stupid, for one reason: Because he is stupid.”
Coles added that the purpose of this speculation is to understand Trump, not to shame him for his potential intellectual deficiencies.
“We should say that the point of going through these fears is to understand why he is as he is, because actually, he’s a man that’s been created through his fears,” Coles said.
Trump has often fixated on his supposed intelligence as a way of boasting to voters. In September , when Trump was criticized for not supporting AI regulations, he pointed to his brain as a reason why voters did not need to worry.
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, “and the USA has that, in spades!”
Also in September , Wolff said that Trump's intellectual insecurities explain why he repeatedly hires incompetent people to staff his administration — namely, so that he won't feel inferior to them.
"Speaking on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast, Trump biographer Michael Wolff said, 'This is not a secret,'" reported The Daily Beast's Erkki Forster at the time, noting of Trump's Secretary of Defense that “Pete Hegseth is a... blithering incompetent... yes-man, a suck-up, a man who... knows nothing, and no logic would say he would know enough to run the military-industrial complex."
Wolff added that Hegseth's "primary qualification is that he was... a weekend television co-host. So what in the name of God would he know about running... the United States military... at a moment... in which we are in the middle of a, basically, a revolution in terms of munitions, logistics, and supply.”
He continued, “Pete Hegseth is in this job because Donald Trump is intimidated by competence. It’s not just that he doesn’t want to be bossed around by people; it’s that he can’t deal with people who know things because—for the obvious reason—because he doesn’t know things.”
In August Wolff also said that “he’s filled the administration of the second term with unqualified people, morons of one variety or another, because he can’t have people who are clearly smarter than he is.”
When AlterNet reached out to the White House in May regarding a letter signed by three dozen health professionals alleging that Trump is mentally incompetent, a spokesperson attacked the credibility of the signatories.
“If it quacks like a duck, it may actually just be a Democrat hack doctor,” Davis Ingle told AlterNet. “President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in American history and any so-called medical professionals engaging in armchair diagnosis or false speculation for political purposes are clearly breaking the Hippocratic Oath they’ve sworn to.”
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I have never seen any evidence or indication that Trump is above average intelligence, and there is considerable evidence he is not. Among the first and and foremost evidence he is "slow" is his abysmal vocabulary. He seems to only know a few hundred words, among them "no ones ever seen anything like it" and "very strongly".
He can conjugate well, though...
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undisputed king of the morons ...
Wait, does this mean he's not as stupid as he appears to be? Obviously this is still a record low bar to set but it also means that he's afraid we'll find out that he's not as stupid as all indicators show. That in itself is a pretty stupid stance.
Forest Trump:
Stupid is as I stewpiddly over dew
I'm gonna need hard evidence for this statement
He is pathetically stupid, totally and openly corrupt and as evil as they come. MAGA!
Red Green is so funny. We used to watch The Red Green Show on PBS all the time.
"Yeah. All right, Harold..."
a late friend fashioned his adult life after the character, and usually achieved the same results ...
With a whole lot of duct tape.
He is the King of the bigots, er MAGAites...
Am I special because I recognized him as an ignoramus the first time I saw him ever? I don’t know how anyone could miss that.
There are some who genuinely don't realize it, but only because they are also ignoramuses. They see nothing wrong with a sad old lying sack of shit that's desperately trying to keep anyone from knowing the truth about themselves even though EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN already knows the truth about them. It's like we're all forced to watch some sick 'Truman Show' where the main characters have absolutely no clue what the real universe around them is like, they live in an insular little world of their own deluded making.
It’s funny - I have a relative in the FBI, and I said that my instincts strongly point to DJT not just being friends with Epstein but being in collusion with him in an underage prostitution business. We were in full agreement on that, and this relative also worked on Trump’s impeachment investigations, adding much credibility to my instincts. Mind you, when you’re in the FBI you work on investigations that are assigned to you, not what you request to participate in.
He has money.
...and there are plenty of scum willing to sell their souls for just a chance to ride a rich dicks coattails.
I have noticed that a large number of people presume that a wealthy person is ipso facto brilliant. A very dangerous false belief.
Too stupid to know that people have known for years that he is stupid.