CNN’s Don Lemon believes Trump’s constant bragging masks deep insecurity, an idea expressed by by Dan McLaughlin:
Despite being born to wealth, he’s lived his whole life as the nouveau riche kid from Queens whose fame, fortune, Ivy League degree, fashion-model wives, TV shows, casinos, beauty pageants, football team, political largesse . . . none of it could get his old-money Manhattan society neighbors, the smart kids, the political movers and shakers to treat him as a peer, an equal, a man of consequence
Trump’s small active vocabulary and simple sentence structure may have caused elites to view him as dumb, and his ridiculous hair likely made them laugh at him. Jimmy Fallon claimed that when Trump appeared on Saturday Night Live, he didn’t realize people were laughing at him, not with him.
Adding insult to injury, cultural elites absolutely worship Obama, viewing him as the greatest writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln. “Your my hero” gushed literary superstar Jonathan Franzen when he was summoned to the White House to meet his God. British novelist Martin Amis is so fiercely protective of Obama’s legacy that he compares him to a family member.
Trump is HBD aware, so being considered so inferior to a near-black man may have been painful. The New York Time‘s Charles M. Blow argues:
Trump wants to be Obama — held in high esteem. But, alas, Trump is Trump, and that is now and has always been trashy. Trump accrued financial wealth, but he never accrued cultural capital, at least not among the people from whom he most wanted it.
Therefore, Trump is constantly whining about not being sufficiently applauded, commended, thanked, liked. His emotional injury is measured in his mind against Obama. How could Obama have been so celebrated while he is so reviled?
The whole world seemed to love Obama — and by extension, held America in high regard — but the world loathes Trump.
Obama was a phenomenon. He was elegant and cerebral. He was devoid of personal scandal and drenched in personal erudition. He was a walking, talking rebuttal to white supremacy and the myths of black pathology and inferiority. He was the personification of the possible — a possible future in which legacy power and advantages are redistributed more broadly to all with the gift of talent and the discipline to excel
It didn’t help matters when then President Obama decided to rub it in at the 2011 White House Correspondence Dinner. McKay Coppins writes:
On the night of the dinner, Trump took his seat at the center of the ballroom, perfectly situated so that all 2,500 lawmakers, movie stars, journalists, and politicos in attendance could see him….But as soon as the plates were cleared and the program began, it became agonizingly clear that Trump was not royalty in this room: He was the court jester. The president used his speech to pummel Trump with one punchline after another…When host Seth Meyers took the mic, he piled on with his own rat-a-tat of jokes, many of which seemed designed deliberately to inflame Trump’s outer-borough insecurities: “His whole life is models and gold leaf and marble columns, but he still sounds like a know-it-all down at the OTB.” The longer the night went on, the more conspicuous Trump’s glower became. He didn’t offer a self-deprecating chuckle, or wave warmly at the cameras, or smile with the practiced good humor of the aristocrats and A-listers who know they must never allow themselves to appear threatened by a joke at their expense.
Instead, Trump just sat there, stone-faced, stunned, simmering — Carrie at the prom covered in pig’s blood.
Legend has it that Trump was so humiliated that he took his revenge by succeeding Obama as President and undoing his signature achievements. It is a revenge he continues to seek as long as Obama reigns as the World’s most worshiped person.
Packing a strong dose of EGI, CNN’s Don Lemmon was having none of it. The anchor recently decided to use his power as a media figure to hit Trump where he felt it would hurt most. Staring straight into Trump’s face through the television camera, and telling him (in-front of millions of viewers) that Obama is smarter than him, more educated, better looking, far more self-made, has a more accomplished wife, and punked him over the birth certificate issue (a reference to the 2011 White House Correspondence dinner when Obama mocked Trump for falling for the conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya).
If Lemon was trying to get Trump to leave Obama alone, he may have had the exact opposite effect. A few days later Trump was accusing Obama of pushing the Russia-gate conspiracy as a way to undermine Trump’s presidency. Dubbed Obama-gate, Trump called it the Worst political crime in American history by far, and is now demanding that Obama testify before congress.
But with the coronavirus continuing to threaten Trump’s re-election, Obama may have the last laugh if his VP pick Joe Biden takes over as President in November, and Obama emerges as the power behind the throne.
Pumpkin Person 
wow. peepee makes it harder and harder to know she’s black.
this is picture of swank and me.
It’s comments like these that make it so painfully obvious how envious Mugabe is of Swank.
in the virtue signalling olympics whites win all the gold medals.
as long as people are talking about race there’s racism.
just STFU. stop talking about it!
but all the magic negroes (((promoted))) talk about nothing except race…
i mean doesn’t every black person HATE don lemon and oprah and joy reed?
Oprah achieved her success long before the magic negro era and she climbed her way up through the ranks though grass roots support, not promotion by media elites. She launched her career when media control was divided into 70 or so different companies, not just six like we have today. Last scientific poll I saw showed over 80% of black Americans like her, but that was years ago. Although the core of her audience was white suburban soccer moms, her most loyal supporters were probably little old black ladies. As one black professor said “My Grandma will stab you over some Oprah”.
muggy…
is art tatum a genius?
i put tatum in the same category i put liberace.
If this blog was The Godfather:
RR=Michael
PP=Roth
Me= Santino (though I’d really just want to be Clemenza)
Swank=Vito
And obviously Mugabe=Fredo
It just fits so perfectly. The weak mindedness, the need to compensate for his inadequacies by ranting and raving, the fact that they both aren’t “real Italians.” It’s funny because at Least Fredo is actually Italian even if he doesn’t act like it.
Mugabe encapsulates “notice me Senpai”. He’s even LibLeft. Well so am I, but Mugabe is fake and gay, while i’m based.
You mean The Godfather part II
That too. I meant it as a general statement for the trilogy (though the 3rd one sucks ass) not the first movie in particular.
virtue signalling whites are the ultimate racists because, as zizek says, they don’t even allow black people to be evil.
i remember my dad saying, “nick van exel is an asshole.”
muggy is half right
but virtue signaling is faking it before the people makes it
this is what he misses
Most people don’t realize this, but Playboi Carti basically started the field of Cardiology. Did Monk or Tatum ever accomplish something like this? Of course not!
Hence why Carti is the superior musician in all aspects.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/W_HkhGVCb7t6yAAY2st988dTKSDYAIHY9vKtS6Nh3dU6LMHBTrIVVWAeiF75h_dV-AdQgEQn-BccUZHTXWMmu6SdcAhXYKojh2612AZlNRaggkWsSig
At the end of the day, people will associate don lemon and obama with affirmative action. But nobody will do that with Trump.
How can you say such incorrect things so “matter of factly”?
Like even if Obama and his bitch were only successful due to AA the vast majority of the world wouldn’t even have that opinion.
Reasons like this are why every comment you make just sounds so salty.
You just don’t get it Melo. If you aren’t a democrat voter and vote republican youre going to see Obama as yet another AA person. Even republicans think Clarence Thomas, a fellow republican, was an AA appointment to the bench.
Okay. But who cares what cuckservatives think.
Trump understands my people.
Anime is the funniest person here.
Melo do you also think Assad used poison gas on he rebels in Syria after obama said poison gas was his ‘red line’?
I don’t know, I was too young to have a real opinion about it at the time.
This is a left wing person by the way saying CNN is lying.
What!? A new network lying!?!?
Mind=Blown!
News
Melo do you think JFK was shot by Harvey Oswald?
Mandela effect
Was the limo Kennedy was in have 4 car seats or 6 seats.
History channel always showed 4 seats.
No. I think it was the Mafia. But nobody really knows. And probably never will.
It wasn’t the mafia idiot. If the mafia could take out a president then why would the Warren Commission cover for them? Why were the mafia dismantled in the 70s and 80s if they were so powerful? Like you say maybe youre too young to be talking about this grown up stuff with adults.
And Sirhan Sirhan was a lunatic that killed his brother?
Im just trying to get a sense of how low your social intelligence is relative to someone who actually has aspergers. I can tell you don’t have aspergers though.
Philo, no matter how much you want to project, just because I’m telling you simple facts doesn’t mean I have a low social intelligence.
For example when we were discussing the black jogger. Regardless of what CNN or any news outlet had to say on the matter, the situation was not legal, neither was it moral to the vast majority of the world.
Try not to be so credulous.
I don’t have an opinion on the jogger. I don’t know the facts. But it seems similar to that situation with Saint Trayvon where this hispanic guy went overboard.
What I would say is that people are on red alert when young black men are in the neighbourhood. Look at the stats melo and come back to me when youre educated about crime.
I know about crime I’m an HBDer. The reason I’m not a racist piece of shit is because I also understand averages.
Similarly if I know a black man regularly jogs in a white middle class neighborhood then more than likely he’s not some thug that deserves to be suspect to any random crime. Those two retards did not have a coherent reason to go after that man regardless of crime statistics.
Crime: the social construct
Is that the title of your new book?
No, just stating a fact.
I didn’t say you were wrong lol.
Can you tell if I have aspergers (or not). That would be your litmus test.
How about the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
Is that something you think could have happened as the CNN said it did?
Joe Biden assaulted Tara Reade. Super obvious,
relevant
I see pill & musg’s comments
I don’t read
I see RR ‘s comments
I read and pray
What
This man is the smartest commenter to have entered the blogging realm RR. Treat him with respect for he knows not what he does but only listens to the commands of the Creator himself!
LOL
Basically I can’t see where CNN ends and Melo starts his opinions. Whats your opinion on Israel Melo? Do you agree with CNN that it should be supreme over the middle east via the US army?
Then you clearly have trouble reading. You simply only see what you want to see.
I don’t support Israel. No country “deserves” an ethnostate.
Like the actress that played Phoebe in friends said today – if Friends was cast today there would be a magic negro in the cast and it would completely spoil it. It would defeat the point of having a show that portrayed 90s middle class young people.
What people don’t get with affirmative action is that it never ends. We will eventually get to a point where blacks, who are the most vocal when they lose out on something, are going to ask for over-representation vis a vis other minorities who are even more populous or similar in numbers, not just whites. If we gave into every single demand, the jews would simply move on to agitating latinos or asian americans.
Constant disruption. War on society. Boiling point. And the jew will be the arbiter of fairness because people like Melo are too dumb to see the puppetmaster.
When we look at the history of liberal sympathising we see a clear line from Native Americans to blacks to ?
white women have benefited most from affirmative action. so Friends already that mined those ‘unbelievable’ ground.
/end scene philosopher proven a retard yet again
I genuinely believe if I was emperor of America or something race relations would be WAAAAAAAY better than they are now.
People like loaded and melo can’t grasp this. They see the constant agitation as the desired result instead.
Loaded is another puerile idiot. When hes not thrashing whites for not giving him enough money or ‘respect’ hes internally wishing he’ll never be deported to pakistan to live with co ethnics like he deserves to be.
People like Loaded and Melo are why america is failing. The country was fine before filipinos and pakistanis got in on the action. What have they contributed to their new country? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I’ve contributed more than you. And that’s just a fact. But go ahead keep getting fired and blaming it all your problems on Jews.
Youre such an idiot it has to end eventually. Have you realized that everything you say is incredibly simplistic??? Its like all the conspiracies you believe in are a-b scenarios. One action leading to grave consequences.
The world is a lot more complex than that you baffling idiot! Try thinking deeper!!!
So the stock market is quite high relative to what I assume future earnings will be. Unlike autistic economists who say this is a rational calculation it seems obvious that its the portfolio effect where people simply have nothing else to gain yields because of the Fed buying any and all debt.
I have no idea how anyone can be an intellectual neoliberal and also believe the Fed belongs there.
The Fed pushes the entire equation further towards central planning than towards true ‘free markets’. If the price of money and quantity of money is arbitrary and decided by Jerome Powell we basically have the peoples republic of china lite. Not free markets.
And we should embrace it and say it. ‘Im for central planning. I support the Fed dictating who will be rich and who will be poor’. Just like neoliberals complain the government does this with fiscal policy.
AT LEAST THE GOVERNMENT IS ELECTED
Modern economics as public policy is basically now about deciding who will be rich and who will be poor. They could have passed a minimum income and given everyone a 4 bedroom house with a swimming pool long ago. What Im saying is is that the poor in America at least are unnecessarily poor. Its like some kind of punishment or something but I can’t figure out what for.
A minimum income & free nice house would drive up the cost of labour because so many people would see no need to work & then they’d be home all day spreading conspiracy theories about elites on social media (like they’re doing now during the shutdown) & politically organizing. They’d also be less likely to commit crimes and prisoners are an important source of cheap labour.
There’s no punishment. You’re reading way too much into things like the schiz you are. Open your eyes and read what you just wrote.
Why do you let a heavy schizophrenic comment here Pumpkin? Hes clearly a different breed of delusional.
Most of his comments are moderated
The fact that we spent $5 trillion on Iraq but can’t provide free housing is all you need to know.
Look at you saying smart things.
5 trillion for Israel’s lebensraum.
@pumpkinperson
“most”
IDK why but that almost doesn’t shock me.
Philosopher is such an entitled moron he thinks he deserves his status as some type of prophet or great man. This is the grandiosity of the schizo. Don’t let him fool you…none of his comments are to contribute to anyone but his deluded view of the self!
Nobody is too powerful in my opinion. It doesn’t take power to kill a man. At least not on the scale that you think it does. I think it was the mafia because the timelines just add up but again, I don’t really know and neither do you and it has very little to do with my age and more to do with the fact that it’s very difficult to find evidence for.
The mafia lost power in the 70s and 80’s because that’s when unions lost a lot of their power. They caused their own demise by being incredibly greedy and stealing too much shit they couldn’t cover from pension funds.
Not sure why this attached to Philo’s comment
This didn’t***
Yeah there was definitely something going on. The whole Jack Ruby thing sets off like fifty red flags.
Do you think Oswald shot him?
He probably did. You know I always had a sneaking suspicion though that there were multiple shooters and only Oswald got caught which would explain some of the conflicting eye witness reports and the controversy on the bullet trajectory. Though that’s all just speculation and unlike Philo I’m willing to admit as much.
They had the best motive. They basically got JFK elected and so when he back stabbed them with the whole Cuba thing and letting his brother crack down on them it makes sense that they would want to retaliate.
Have you seen The Irishman? I love that movie simply because it literally rolls all of these things together into a cohesive narrative instead of the bits and pieces that exist outside of it.
Read The Devils Chessboard. Explains everything.
I’m sure Obama is race aware too. More so than Trump.
Living in the South Side for 10 years would make anyone a hardcore race realist. Losing a Congressional race for not being black enough would also help.
Yes I agree Obamas is HBD aware.
Do you think that it’s possible to be intelligent, sane, and not believe in HBD?
Most intelligent people don’t believe in HBD.
You mean specially verbally intelligent people, isn’t? Seems the degree of acceptance and conformity to political correctness from the prog side at least in academia is only significant in the domains which require high verbal IQ. It’s mean in engineering, for example, no there such “overproportion” of progressists but pragmatic/selfish capitalists. Another problem is the empathy and sensitiveness levels among highly intelligent people, often higher. Hbd ideology is based on the basic confusion between truth and offense, that is the basic general confusion among conservative mindset. On other hand self declared social justice guardians and warriors, many them highly verbally intelligent, believes any sensitive information must be true.
For them as well for me, words have true emotional impact. Remember the enormous importance and usefulness words have to help us to navigate in this complex ocean of facts and perspectives.
Rationality is the perfect balance between prejudice (super analytical/negativity toward given subject) and fanaticism (super analytical/positivity toward given subject). Both groups failled to do so. Prejudice is part of our predatory instincts while fanaticism is part of our domesticated instincts. Rationality doesn’t look like super correlated with IQ tests because It’s not just cognitive but also related with personality types.
It’s amazing how hard the media spun Obama’s stand up act. It wasn’t even remotely funny. Fucking Bryan Caplan would’ve done a better job with the same material.
trump is smart in ways obama isn’t and in ways IQ tests don’t measure. obama is not adored by anyone except optics [redacted by pp, may 16, 2020] like jeffrey epstein.
The reason trump was successful is his stupidity. Which may seem counterintuitive but really it’s the only thing that makes sense. It’s too far gone to think all of this is Irony or simply trolling. The white trash wanted him because he is at a similar mental capacity of other white trash and hence he could relate to them and basically regurgitate all of their ignorant bitching and moaning back to them.
Trump isn’t dumb. At least definitely not in the social intelligence sense. If you are an autist you couldn’t even dream of handling yourself at a press conference as well as trump.
Tricking stupid people with rhetoric isn’t social intelligence. The people on this blog don’t know what social IQ is. He can’t fool neurotypicals.
He doesn’t handle himself well at press conferences. He looks like an uneducated moron.
From what I’ve seen trump is getting great ratings and wall to wall coverage verbally beating up globalist propagandists. Hes definitely #winning
But I have always said trump botched the actual handling of Corona. Hes not smart in the academic way. I bet trump was a terrible student.
But he’s not verbally beating up anyone. He only sounds good to retards.
The vast majority of people don’t like him. This kind of coverage only works on people that were already brainwashed.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. The trained hypnotist Scott Adams and other notable experts on persuasion think extremely highly of Trump’s skills. Even smart people are susceptible the to the influence of the tactics he employs. Trump is effectively a genius interpersonally. Very confident in that assessment
No, you don’t.
He literally is only able to fool retards and other psychopaths. His “tactics” are incredibly transparent and I’m not a genius of any kind. In fact there are millions of people who see through his tactics. Hence why he lost the popular vote during the election.
He just repeating ad verbatim the same old alt reich talking points that every uneducated idiot wanted to hear. It’s not complicated. He’s not intelligent. Deal with it.
Yeah, I agree with this to an extent. My view is the Donald Trump benefited not only from his current stupidity but also the pre-mental-deterioration intelligence that facilitated his climb to the top. Watch interviews of him from 20 years back – the relative eloquence is startling.
From there it’s his newfound stupidity that brought it home.
Interesting theory. The wealth he achieved when his IQ was high gave him credibility, but the speaking style and wacky opinions he expressed when his IQ dropped gave him relate-ability, and the combination of both was a winning formula because lower IQ whites saw someone who looked and sounded like them who had beat the elites at their own game. Of course pill argues that Trump dumbs his speaking style on purpose to get votes but I don’t buy that.
Of course IQ is age normed. Trump’s intelligence has certainly declined a lot in an absolute sense, but it’s not clear if he’s declined a lot relative to others his own age. WAIS IQ at age 50 correlates an incredible 0.9 with WAIS IQ at age 70:
Click to access 10.1080%4087565649109540548.pdf
You’d be surprised. Even very intelligent people act more on emotion than reason. Trump understands this. The guy has done objectively stupid stuff, and I didn’t even vote for him. However, I think when it comes to manipulating the media and getting people to like him on an intimate level, he is extremely high-functioning. It may just be that what you attribute to everyone else being stupid I attribute to his being smart/effective. The popular vote thing is a weird argument. The goal was to win the election, and his sense of humor, marketing talents, and rhetorical skills were so superior to Hillary’s that he managed to beat her with no experience and an incredibly damning admission to sexual assault weeks before votes were cast. If you or Hillary were as bright as him, you would be able to become President. Even 180+-IQ Chris Langan believes that Trump would easily qualify for Mensa.
Also he certainly modifies his speech to stand out. He said himself that he “has the best words,” but that ‘stupid’ is a more effective word to use than ‘incompetent.’ This implies that he intuitively understands that being repetitive and using visual, digestible words is advantageous if you’re trying to persuade people and that his diction belies his actual vocabulary. Having said that, he’s definitely somewhat senile.
Lamgam never said he’d qualify for Mensa, but he did say that he’d score at least as high as the average Harvard student but he was citing my article claiming Harvard students average IQs in the 120s.
He’s not manipulating the media. His base are low IQ conspiracy theorists so it’s easy for him to hand-wave anything the media says. The Media is just doing what it’s always done.
It’s not a weird argument. My point is he was only able to “fool” people who were uneducated proles that also happen to be the vast majority of people who live in swing states. The point is that that were more people than less who saw through his “master manipulation” so you can’t actually say these are great skills. It doesn’t take a genius to manipulate a crowd of morons.
“his sense of humor, marketing talents, and rhetorical skills”
Having a sense of humor and being a sociopath are two different things and none of those are his skills. Roger stone can be attributed to most of his success in marketing and rhetoric.
If being the president required Intelligence or skill then I could do it very easily. I’m not even being cocky. The reason why it’s easier for someone like Trump is because he has no empathy and is so stupid that he can relate to his base. Politics has become entertainment. Trump would have a better chance of being president than Einstein. And Chris Langan is not actually an intelligent person. So his opinion is irrelevant on this matter.
What’s funny though is that Trump is not even a good troll. He’s just never ran into a real one. I’m baffled at the amount of people that are absolutely terrified to make fun of him.
It may take a certain kind of genius to manipulate morons because none of the many other elite politicians (i.e. Jeb bush, ted Cruz, Hillary etc) running against him were able to manipulate the same group of morons anywhere near as effectively despite far more political experience
Though this was partly because trump didn’t care about looking racist while they did
No. You’re looking way too deep into this.
It didn’t take genius to see how effective his rhetoric would be. Trump is not a social genius because he was not able to socially manipulate the majority of people.
If one base has an IQ of 80 and another has an IQ of 100. It will take less IQ to manipulate the former. Politicians actually believe most of the shit they say whether you want to accept that or not. If not then every president would all try to run republican. So unless I have a higher social IQ than every other person that was against Trump they can’t all be simply trying to manipulate. So Hillary not trying to appeal to cuckservatives is no mystery.
Furthermore. I find it hilarious that people think the (((media))) is being manipulated by Trump when it’s completely the opposite. He’s a Jewish shill and the media gives him attention on purpose just like they purposefully ignored Bernie.
You know what maybe I do have a higher social IQ. Because that point above literally flies over every single person’s head.
Politicians actually believe most of the shit they say whether you want to accept that or not. If not then every president would all try to run republican
Why would they do that when half the country are democrats?
Because the people that give you the most votes are conservative. America is majority conservative. The most states with the most electoral votes also tend to be Republican, except Cali and NY obviously.
But democrats are a plurality of registered voters:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485255-there-are-fewer-registered-republicans-than-independents-for-the-first-time?amp
https://news.gallup.com/poll/275792/remained-center-right-ideologically-2019.aspx
This is what I was taking about^
Registered voters also doesn’t translate 1:1 with the amount of people actually voting. In my opinion if everyone in America who was legally able to vote, voted America would be mostly liberal. But this isn’t the case so the best bet is to run republican if you’re trying to get elected. However, Thur best way to test this would be if a liberal Trump decided to run against the actual Trump.
Where’s Mugabe at?
Plus Independents probably have a lot of librights in their ranks which are more likely going to vote for trump because they see him as the “lesser evil”.
My point is if two people are both trying to figure out how to get some morons to vote for them, and one person comes up with a more effective & better executed strategy than another, then that person is objectively smarter at manipulating that particular group of morons. That doesn’t mean they’re smarter overall or even socially smarter overall. but it does mean they’re smarter at a certain kind of social skill.
Now you can argue that trump wasn’t consciously trying to manipulate anyone; he was just being himself & he appealed to morons because he was one himself. I think the truth is somewhere in between.
Don’t know where mug of pee is
The thing is though. Hillary manipulated more morons despite her groups of morons being less moronic than Trump’s group of morons. The latter’s morons were just in the right places.
The goal wasn’t to manipulate morons. It was to become president.
All we need to do is get Mugabe to call Trump a fake and gay black lesbian a few times and we can test this theory.
Trump is uninhibited and intuitive.
Intuitive is where he just lets the answer come to him.
uninhibited is simply smooth functioning.
(Animekity is crippled inside, contorted)
Trump follows this personality prototype:
https://www.16personalities.com/entj-personality
Animekitty is this prototype.
https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality
Trump promised to get jobs back to those who had lost to Globalism.
Globalism is why Trump won, because rednecks want Americans to win.
To defeat Globalism Trump made a hat. Americans are winners.
I betcha my cat is cuter than you.
=^.^=
Langan actually did say that about Mensa in one of his other Quora posts about Trump. I can try to find a screenshot of it and send it to you, but his original posts and account have been terminated because he’s a disagreeable right-winger. He’s definitely freakishly intelligent; unfortunately, he was badly abused as a kid and had multiple negative experiences with academics in his formative years. This probably influenced him to contradict the prevailing opinions of liberal elites, who he claims didn’t care about his family’s plight growing up because they were ‘white trash.’ Anyway yes he is actually intelligent but very biased and a bit disturbed.
Scott Adams, himself coincidentally a Mensan and not historically right-leaning, thinks Trump has an exceptional “talent stack” and predicted his victory very early on. I’m not saying Trump is otherwise the most intelligent guy – and not all of his antics are by design – but he trounced most of his experienced competitors because he posses mental skills that they do not. He’s arguably the funniest Western politician since Churchill and routinely got out of disadvantageous debate situations by being witty. He is outstanding at marketing; Hillary is so inept at it that she put his name in her slogan. He has a track record of being very well-liked by most everyone he felt like charming (ranging from Chuck Schumer to Dennis Rodman) before becoming a politician. You should watch some videos by ‘Charisma on Command’ and of Scott Adams talking about it. It’s simply not true that only stupid people get conned or that he didn’t use the media to his advantage by being strategically controversial and boastful.
Teflec your description of Trump reminds me of my self. Except Middle Eastern and Turk.
Teffec P.
I have been arguing that Trump is a lot smarter than people give him credit for, for quite some time now. I personally am not terribly keen on his personality(being more of an empath I prefer a more sophisticated social approach) however there is one thing I do like about him and that is his ability to be honest with things that virtually no politician on earth would ever dare be honest about. It’s a kind of truth to power attitude that no politician so far has been able to accomplish and survive long enough in politics to talk about it. He’s essentially single handedly taking on the News Media establishment something that was long overdue in the US. He’s been right about a lot of things and was brave in calling them out. As for his megalomania and tendency to use hyperbolic speech well no one is perfect, once you learn how to extract the meaning out of what he is saying and not get bogged down in the details it won’t be as bothersome.
Yes he is a megalomaniac but possibly one of the most benign megalomaniacs in history and it may well turn out to be his strong point in the long run. You see he seems quite patriotic(but not remotely the racist he is made out to be) and coupled with the fact that he has no need for the establishment’s money this means that he is in prime position to do great things for the US. I think he genuinely wants to do what’s best for his country and wants to leave a legacy behind, i personally see nothing wrong with that and I’m not even american. An added bonus is that he is averse to war which may just be the quality that tips the balance in his favor in my book(as opposed to Hillary).
So more specifically about his intelligence, I think he is(or was) clearly above the Mensa threshold, not genius level but I reckon 140 – 145. Of course with age he has probably had significant cognitive deterioration and has possibly blown out part of his verbal center, but he is fairing a lot better than other people were at his age(namely Biden). Trump’s episodic memory is still quite exceptional, his executive functioning seems solid enough however it seems his verbal ability has taken the biggest hit. As they often say with age people tend to break at their weakest point so it may well be that his verbal ability was never that great in the first place. Possibly at his peak around 120 but certainly lower than average for a US president, particularly compared to Clinton and Obama. His performance IQ I think is still very very high and his social intelligence has probably been refined optimized and catered towards the business world which is why he comes off as odd and awkward to most people but in fact he likely has a very high social intelligence too. Perhaps with age he might have dipped below 130 overall but like I said he is fairing a lot better than others his age given how much pressure he is currently under and how fiercely he is being fought by the media, establishment and Democrats.
To reiterate I am not necessarily a fan of his but I have to say given the alternative in my view he is the lesser of two evils. The Dems have lost the plot entirely and from the looks of it will likely take at least a few more years before they get their act together. They may not manage it in 2024 even, so possible 2028 before they manage to sort themselves out. Pelosi is by far the biggest thing dragging them down while these far left so called progressives everyone seems to be infatuated with as of late will have to be sidelined before they can join the rest of the adults at the table. I say this as a lifelong(up until recently) supporter of the Dems and on the whole a left of center individual(definitely temperamentally so).
During the 2016 election, Michael Moore was on MSNBC with a panel of News Hosts and they were talking about Flint Michigan. Obama drank some of the contaminated water and said it was good to drink. The entire panel agreed it was a rotten thing to do and that the country has fallen in its leadership. Michael Moore said Obama was likable but is deceptive. Michael Moore does not like Trump.
Obama is smug
Trump is bold
Those are two kinds of smart.
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in a society where blacks talk like everyone else. listen to the same music. and…
in a society where OBJECTIVE measures are used for admissions, hiring, and preferment…
there’s ZERO racism.
but under late global capitalism capital wants subjective measures preserved in order to reproduce itself in bourdieu’s sense. and…
it wants to maintain cultural differences in order to divide the proletariat.
By the way all this stuff trump is saying about obama stitching him up is half true. The deep state did in fact they to stitch up trump with the russia ‘hoax’ as he calls it. It wasnt really obama although obama may have tacitly supported it once it became clear what was happening.
Melo still doesn’t get why russia was thrown at trump. You should read steve sailer melon. It will blow your mind how the world actually works.
Even if it was thrown at trump for nefarious reasons due to a deep state conspiracy it wouldn’t mean the accusations were false.
Russiagate it real.
You read Steve sailer? That explains a lot.
Oh boy….
Denial is a river in magic negro land.
Denial?
Buddy, you have yet to address the enormous amount of evidence I pointed out to you on the other post.
All that fake news you’re reading on Sailer’s blog is worsening your schizophrenia.
Ifmelo actually wasnt ignorant and knew as much as me he would agree with everything I say.
Lmao. I hope this is satire.
Loaded you are a mangina. You know what that is – a grievance monkey.
Arabs enslaved blacks too. Why dont you ask them to give blacks reparations and Oscar’s. See what they say
No Pill, you actually HAVE a mangina! I always wonder why youre such a diva and a gamma male…now it makes sense!
Anyways its not about reparations its about a schizo who happens to profit off society more than people who can contribute to it regardless of race. Thats what this is about you dumb mangina gamma male diva…
Offtopic:
what do you think of Dr. Edward Duttons biography on Philippe Rushton? Exposing him as a narcissistic fraud who manipulated his data:
I haven’t read it but Dutton makes really weird arguments like East Asians can’t be that K because they don’t have oral sex. WTF?
“Dutton has a degree in Theology from Durham University and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Aberdeen”
If you were smart you wouldn’t read a book by a guy that dedicated a decade of his life to theology.
If you were smart you wouldn’t read a book by a guy that’s the editor in chief of Salon.
Ouch! Burn.
I think it’s a good book—I liked the new tidbits I wouldn’t have known otherwise, like Rushton’s illegitimate kid and his relationship with a black woman. (Also corroborating Hillaird’s claim that Rushton was racially motivated, too.)
I give it 3/5.
“Also corroborating Hillaird’s claim that Rushton was racially motivated, too”
Also corroborating Hillaird’s claim that Rushton was not racially motivated *
You must misunderstood politics to worship for politicians as a silly fan (fanatical). Pseudo politized people act in that way. They are very interested in politics but they just self project their selfish interests and primitive mindset into the chosen “leader” and calling it as “seeking the truth”. Majority of any people included “aryans” act in such stupid ways. The true politized knows politicians are chosen supposedly to serve us specially in democratic regime.
Trump is not dumb but genius???
Just because he was the first partially “politically incorrect” president of U$ since a long time doesn’t mean he is a genius. It’s your cognitive and emocional biases working to create this impression. So you think he is “corageous”, “honest ” and funny when It’s always a matter of self projection. Do you think just “liberals” who fool themselves??
Trumpers often have
Bad taste on humor
And to follow leaders and “celebrities”
Only partially correct point of Trump campaign in 2016 was about immigration and i said partially. About environmental, social, cultural and international politics It’s just pure garbage.
Because he is white, “succesful”, rich , married a younger woman, pragnatically conservative and now president you think he is a genius.
Imterestingly much less people worshipped for him when he was just a disgusting “celebrity”. I bet lot of actual trumpers believed he was a useless parasite.
A true political genius would reunite all nation, even their enemies by their extremely sophisticated persuasion skills and general knowledge.
I even can’t said Merkel as a genius, neither Trump.
About the problem of IQ as a direct correspondence to intelligence.
It’s clear right now insensitive people are irrational as overly sensitive ones, i mean, those who can’t control themselves, their feelings.
Even if Trump scored higher on IQ tests, It’s not all high IQ people who are above in true intelligence. Personality is very important too.
Trump minimal scientific and geographical knowledge seems at the same level as a avg teenager. And his intelectual humility to learn with the mistakes seems very lower.
Thanks for hbd, Pumpkin and IQ cultists many people believe all highly intelligent people must score higher on IQ tests. Lacking rationality and creativity here. And many high IQ people have none of both, really!
So IQ scores are at the some point good to analyse intelligence but rationality, the capacity to differentiate what is true and what is not It’s its core, fundamental. Rationality is far more relevant to IQ if you want to know about smart people regardless their background.
Trump is comparable to Obama.
Many people think Obama is a genius because he was the first black president of KKK nation. But not.. this is circunstantially extraordinary, It’s undebatable, but Obama didn’t prove his alleged political geniality during his mandate.
Is this Santo?
Obviously