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Trump’s nephew insists former president is showing signs of ‘dementia’ like his grandfather
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I’ve been arguing this for years, and it’s insane the pushback I get when I suggest this. He’s very intelligent, he’s a narcissist. He’s an actor. He’s playing a dumbass and doing it well. It plays to the crowd he wants to play to amazingly.
You don’t get to where he is in life by being dumb. You get there by being manipulative.
You get where he is by starting with a massive pile of money. His father funneled hundreds of millions to him. He would be doing as good or better if he had just stuck it in an index fund and drawn his salary from it. Meanwhile the real estate market in his lifetime has exploded in value. If he was smart or any good at it he would be richer than he plays on TV.
His move from unsuccessful but still rich "developer" to celebrity then president is down to three things. The apprentice where he pretended to be richer and more successful than he actually is, a massive backlash against the first black president, and the fact that he faced off against Obama in the public eye and put himself forward.
He is basically the fucking avatar of ignorant, stupid, white privilege. A man who "succeeded" in terms of not losing the hundreds of millions of dollars given to him convincing himself and others that he hit a triple when he was born on third base and gabbed and postured his way into the head of a crowd with no higher aspiration than making America white again.
You can be dumb and manipulative.
If you think he’s dumb, you’ve bought into his lies.
His casinos lost 90% of their worth before they went bankrupt. Before you come in with the excuse that the economy drastically affected his ability to run a money-making machine, the other casinos in the area only doubled their worth in the same time. It was a difficult time, but you have to be pretty dumb to lose money in a business with the unofficial slogan of "the house always wins."
He's a fucking moron.
"Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal". --J. R. Bob Dobbs
Low cunning is not intelligence