First Trump’s…
Now Jeffries….
“Well, it’s an extraordinary insult, but he continues to repeat it. And what’s so ironic is that Donald Trump is clearly the dumbest person ever to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…”
Jeffries was talking to the execrable Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNOW so of course there was no push-back. Such a classy exchange between a President and a Congressional leader! “You’re stupid!” “Oh yeah? Well you’re stupider!” I can just imaging Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun talking to each other like that.
Actually I can’t. Those career-long adversaries has respect for the positions they held, our institutions, and, yes, each other. They also understood the importance of civility.
Donald Trump’s penchant for stooping to ad hominem attacks is another one of his obnoxious and self-destructive habits. I wish someone would explain to him that “IQ” does not mean “intelligence” and that it is ignorant, indeed stupid, to think so. I’d bet at some point Trump’s IQ was tested, probably as a kid, registered in the relatively high range, and his parents or teachers told him it meant something. (My father told me that what proved one’s intelligence was what you did, not how you scored on a test.) The President has always been obsessed with ratings, scores and numbers (“Subscriptions way down!). Heck, if I used that to measure the value of my life, I would have killed this blog years ago. Maybe myself too.
You could excuse Trump a bit, especially given his “tit for tat” reflex, for resorting to ad hominem since his political foes constantly use the practice. Trump is fat, he’s orange, his hair is weird, he’s nuts, he’s demented, he’s stupid. It’s still no excuse for him returning fire in kind. Furthermore, it is extremely unlikely that Hakeem Jeffries is “low IQ.” He had an impressive academic record, he was a law review editor in law school and graduated at the top of his class, clerked for a judge and was a corporate litigator before entering politics.
Bravo and Bravo! No, Trump is not the dumbest President we’ve ever had and some of our smartest have let the office defeat them.
“It is also ironic that in the process of calling Trump dumb, Jeffries went on to say he “failed on immigration enforcement.”
That takes a lot of chutzpah! It’s right up there with the Democratic Talking Point of “It isn’t what it is”. For Jeffries to even make such a claim, knowing full well that his party and its deranged followers refuse to assist, intervene, dox, assault and try to kill I.C.E officers regularly in order to prevent enforcement of our immigration laws.
“For Jeffries to even make such a claim, knowing full well that his party and its deranged followers refuse to assist, intervene, dox, assault and try to kill I.C.E officers regularly in order to prevent enforcement of our immigration laws…”
should finish with….shows how little he fears being called on it.
Trump succeeded brilliantly on closing the border, one of the key mandates of his election.
He has not done so well on dealing with the illegal immigrants already here. I think careless and sloppy work has led to many pr problems. To be sure, Democrats have been resisting the hell out of deporting anyone. They’d probably rally behind Ted Bundy if he were an illegal facing deportation.
With one hand, Trump can do great things. With the other hand, Trump can do stupid things. Which hand will Americans vote for next month?