“This crazy tariff war … like, the fact that nobody is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me, right?" said Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tex., during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
“Like, the fact that they sat around, called Joe Biden ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ … at least you could sleep at night because you didn’t have to worry about your 401(k) disappearing overnight," Crockett told Hayes.
“You didn’t have to worry about the cost of food just skyrocketing or skyrocketing costs of all of your electronics,” she said.
“Like, this is crazy work. For no reason.”
Trump is not incompetent. Trump is not doing things by accident. Trump is not confused, or senile, or making mistakes.
Trump is destroying the United States KNOWINGLY, DELIBERATELY, AND ENTIRELY ON PURPOSE.
Rep. Crockett needs to quit naively giving him the benefit of the doubt, because the reality is way worse than she’s even contemplating.
Hey now we know Reagan was more or less senile by his second term and he was still very much a bastard. Multiple things can be true at the same time.
Reagan also didn’t successfully make himself a dictator. Quit underestimating Trump; that’s how you help him win.
I ain’t underestimating him, I don’t know why folks seem to assume that just cause I think he and his ilk are incompetent means they are incapable.
Actually, we have research on the quality of his speeches that shows his brain is not functioning the way it used to. There’s no doubt that old age is getting to him. Remember the scene when he was dancing? That’s not a man who is 100%.
But as you said, it sure looks like he’s trying to do a lot of the horrible things that he is successfully doing. Why are you giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming it’s only malice when it sure looks like both malice and incompetence?
Thank you for saying this. People are gradually sobering up that Trump and co. know what they are doing. For many years, people are insulting him as dumb. But would a dumb person not be elected twice into the world’s most powerful position? If he is dumb, who is the one wielding the power right now? Who is the one lording over us right now? There is the ongoing notion that the concept of intelligence means being smart in broad cognitive aspects. But academics are re-evaluating what intelligence means because we can clearly see that everyone being good at specific things, but not so with the others. Can we call a successful rich banker dumb for being bad at biology and vice versa? A demagogue may not know what “transgenic” means, but he certainly knows what levers to pull to incite the base emotions of voters into supporting him/her. That takes certain skills.
I would still laugh if someone tries to dismiss Trump as “dumb” even after these comments. The principles of Sun Tsu’s “Art of War” can still be conceptually applied into everyday life, and one of the key tenets is to never underestimate your opponent. Keep calling Trump dumb, but who is the one in charge right now? Sure, his government policies are irrational amd harm everyone else, but not to himself and his cronies. He just performed insider trading in last two days after all. That still takes certain skills that most of us can’t do.
Trump golfs on the weekends with his buddies. I bet he just does what his golf buddies tell him to. The fact that we don’t know who those people are is not good.
Is Trump calling the shots?
I’d say yes, but I’d like to analyse the source of his policies. Who really wanted to play the tariff game?
Hint: Владимир Путин