Trump : “I’m, like, a really smart person. .." Shouldn't Our POTUS Actually BE Smart?

@anniepa (27955)
United States
December 14, 2016 12:04am CST
He said since he's "...like, a really smart person. .." it's not necessary for him to receive daily intelligence briefings. Really? NOT getting the briefings is far from smart! Anyway, he said he's "like a smart person", not that he IS a smart person. Don't tell me that was just the way he speaks because a truly SMART person doesn't toss "like" in every sentence when they're speaking to the media or the public. I want my President to be an actual smart person and therefore want to know what's going on.
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• Calgary, Alberta
14 Dec 16
His daughter Ivanka is smart and articulate....His campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is smart and she is a good marketer.... I am not sure if I can say the same thing about him.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
14 Dec 16
I guess they're articulate, especially when compared to him, but I don't trust either of them as far as I could throw them. They're parrots. Kellyanne would sell her soul to the highest conservative politician bidder.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
14 Dec 16
I read that you could chat with Ivanka around a coffee for $50000, so you can control it. I think she is smart, as she did not registered to vote for her father.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
16 Dec 16
@topffer Excellent point about her not being registered. I'm sure she did for the general though, although I've heard she and her husband had both previously been registered Democrats and had donated to Democratic candidates. Still, it's all about money for her, she even marketed her convention dress.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
14 Dec 16
People have what they voted for, it is not mandatory to be smart to be a President, and "like smart" is better than "like dumb". Remember Ronald Reagan ?
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
16 Dec 16
Yep, I remember Reagan well. I didn't vote for him either time and I didn't support him on much but he was much better than Donald. At least I think he was a decent human being. Donald has no humanity.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
17 Dec 16
@TheHorse Like I said, I didn't vote for Reagan and I disagreed with him on pretty much every political issue. But I never feared for my life because of him.
@TheHorse (220116)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 16
I remember Reagan well. I remember being surprised that he won a second term. He was already senile. But I'm still here, and so is America. That's why I'm being a Pollyanna for now.
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@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
14 Dec 16
What is a smart person suppose to sound like? do they all talk the same way. Obama has only taken in about half of his briefings....does that mean that he is not smart, or that he does not know what is going on? Donald Trump also said that he will be available at a moments notice if their is a change in anything. He knows what is going on, and will know if anything changes.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
14 Dec 16
Of course they don't all sound alike but none of them sound like Donald. I mean, have you listened to his speeches? It's been said his grammar and speech style is slightly below a sixth grader's. For sure, smart people don't go around TELLING people they're smart. Where did you get the information that Obama has only taken in "about half" of his briefings? From Donald or one of his minions? He gets his briefings no matter where he is and so could Donald but he's more interested in tweeting about Alec Baldwin and showing off that Kanye West has come to call. He's shown time and time again that he has no clue what's going on. He's still attacking our intelligent agencies for reporting that Russia hacked our election. Unlike a smart person, he seemed to forget that it had been reported and discussed before the election, even by HIM in the debates, when he actually asked WHY it wasn't brought up before the election. I think he's lost it.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
18 Dec 16
@dlr297 Hillary hasn't "already done" anything that comes close to the fraud Trump has committed against the same ordinary working people he now claims to champion. Ask the owners of the Miami paint shop and the 22 other businesses just from that location alone who have filed suit against him for nonpayment for work done on his golf club. He's a pathological liar and I wouldn't trust him if he said the sky was blue. If they find the evidence I'm pretty sure is out there somewhere that he was in cahoots with Putin to try to influence our elections, that's treason. He's already been in discussions about business holdings in foreign countries with foreign leaders and his daughter has sat in on meetings. That's a clear conflict of interest. He's in debt to Russia, China and Germany to the tune of hundreds of billions. I sure see a huge problem with that.
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
19 Dec 16
@anniepa Everything that you talk of is Civil claims, and the courts will take care of that....That is all about money nothing criminal......You said treason and prison..what did he do...Their is no proof that Trump did anything with Putin...Their is also no proof that the election was influenced at all... He is a business man, and businesses have debt....Their is no proof that Russia holds any of his debt....China does we know that... What business meetings has he had with different countries that has been about his companies since he was elected.. All the talk that has been going on is nothing but speculation, and things like he could do this he could do that..If he does do anything against the law he should be held accountable, The united states of America is in debt With China, Germany and who know who else.China has been selling our debt we have with them to many different sources over the last month....Who really owns the USA......Does that mean we have a conflict of interest as a nation. When Obama took office our national debt was around 9 trillion it is now almost 20 trillion..... Hillary let our men die in Benghazi, Turned her back on them and then lied about it...Hillary was doing business as secretary of state on a unsecured server, and she put everybody in danger.....She cheated to win the Democratic nomination for President....
@TheHorse (220116)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Dec 16
We've had several Presidents who weren't that smart and we're still here. We deserve Trump. Almost half of us who voted voted for him.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
16 Dec 16
The majority of us who didn't vote for him don't deserve him!
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
18 Dec 16
@TheHorse Which helps make my point about him not being so smart. I'm not sure he DOES know less than half voted for him, he's still claiming he won in a historical landslide. He's also still saying there's no evidence the Russians hacked us, he's more on the side of Putin than our own CIA and FBI. I'm not sure if that's "smart" or "stupid" but I think it IS TREASON.
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@TheHorse (220116)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 16
@anniepa We may be the butt of many jokes, but I think we have been for years anyway. We will see whether his policies are actually damaging to us. He knows that less than half of us voted for him. And that the Russians may have helped put him in office.
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• United States
14 Dec 16
Just another silly rant against Trump. Being a successful businessman, he doesn't like activities that waste time if it's a simple repetition of the day before. He's there to get something done, unlike the present administration, maybe do something to help that horrific, tragic situation in Aleppo? That would be a good thing.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
16 Dec 16
It's not a repetition. If he were in office now he'd be right there with Putin killing those innocent civilians in Aleppo. If he doesn't like wasting time WHY does he spent hour after hour insulting and bullying people on Twitter?
• United States
19 Dec 16
@anniepa Saying Putin is Trump's idol is totally ridiculous. The liberal media is hyping this up, along with everything else, stretching the truth way beyond recognition to discredit Trump.