His quote is stupid, however. Calling any U.S. President “the dumbest” is a bit like saying that Nellie Fox is the worst player in baseball’s Hall of Fame. All of our elected Presidents were remarkable, and if they weren’t, they wouldn’t have become President. All of them were above average intelligence too. We don’t know their IQs; we do know that the correlation between intelligence and leadership ability is tenuous at best in the White House. Some of our most intelligent Presidents ranged from mediocre to disastrous in office: John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Taft, Wilson, Kennedy, Carter, Obama. Several of the least intellectually gifted did remarkably well, notably Harry Truman.
Who were “the dumbest” Presidents? I’d say Zachary Taylor, our 12th President, showed few signs of intellectual acuity (he took an unusual long time to learn to read and write). Warren G. Harding had no apparent impressive intellectual skills: his greatest talent was making friends. George W. Bush would be in the bottom five, and Gerald Ford, who never was elected, probably belongs at the dead bottom of the ranking, with Joe Biden slightly ahead of him.
Calling Donald Trump “dumb” takes a lot of chutzpah from a Democrat. Trump has outmaneuvered that party at every turn, indeed broken it. They have tried to jail him, impeach him, get him killed, mark him as a traitor. Wow, the big dummy somehow keeps coming out on top, just like he succeeded in the competitive worlds of construction, hotels, casinos and reality TV… finally, politics. It is also ironic that in the process of calling Trump dumb, Jeffries went on to say he “failed on immigration enforcement.” How exactly would he define succeeding in immigration enforcement? Not enforcing the laws, like Trump’s predecessor?
Oh—Somebody please ask Rep. Jeffries about his fellow Somali-American Rep. Omar reading “World War II” as “World War Eleven.” That, I believe, is signature significance. Then ask Rep. Omar to recite the Presidents of the United States in order. I bet she can’t. I bet she can’t name a third of them.
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.