Trump boasts that he's 'like, really smart' and a 'very stable genius' amid questions over his...

[DonViejo]

Trump boasts that he’s ‘like, really smart’ and a ‘very stable genius’ amid questions over his mental fitness

By David Nakamura January 6 at 8:22 AM

President Trump continued to defend himself in the wake of a new book that suggests top White House aides feared he was unfit for the job.

In a tweetstorm Saturday morning, the president called himself a “very stable genius” and called being “really smart” one of his greatest assets. Trump cited his career in business and reality television and his victory in last year's election as evidence of his mental prowess. And he again lashed out at the ongoing special counsel investigation into his campaign's contacts with Russian operatives, calling suggestions that he colluded with Moscow a “total hoax on the American public.”

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Trump's outburst came a day after the public release of a new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, a New York media columnist who said he spent time in the West Wing interviewing top aides as well as Trump.

Wolff paints the picture of a president who is unfit for the job and aides who come to fear Trump is not capable of, or interested in, processing information and making important decisions. Late Friday, Trump blasted Wolff as a “total loser,” and the president mocked his former campaign chairman and White House adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, who was a key source for the book. Bannon criticized other aides and Trump's son, calling a meeting at Trump Tower last year between Donald Jr. and a Russian lawyer “treasonous.”

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[Danmel]

1. Like, really smart people don't need to tell everyone how smart they are

We are so fucked. And not in a good way.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Fredo was "like, really smart" too. nt

[IluvPitties]

4. Yeah, like the smartest people Trump hires.

[treestar]

3. When reading those tweets, I hear them in the

Stephen Colbert Trump Voice.

[dalton99a]

5. Good one

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[ginnyinWI]

6. No, Wolff is not a "total loser":

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist)

Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953)[1] is an American author, essayist, and journalist, and a regular columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ.[2] He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot.com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.

In early January 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published, containing unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.[3] Before its release on January 5, the book and e-book both reached number one on Amazon.com and the Apple iBooks Store.[4]

[C_U_L8R]

7. Sorry Donny, this is a Stable Genius

[lastlib]

8. "Show us the Mensa card!"

[anamnua]

9. Self-declared geniuses

I can only think of two other prominent examples:
1. Oscar Wilde at American customs: 'I have nothing to declare except my genius'. This was somewhat self-effacing and tongue-in-cheek.
2. John Lennon in a 1970 Rolling Stone interview: 'If there's such a thing I must be it'. A trifle arrogant but at least having some substance.