Trump is every student ever who didn't read the book & is trying to wing it when the teacher asks...

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/milesjreed/status/685868341467176960/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[busterbrown]

1. Absolutely.. Might be innately smart but..

really has no interest in anything else but himself.. Thus his lack of of knowledge about anything except woman and his businesses..

[passiveporcupine]

11. I don't see him as smart at all

just blustery

[Jim__]

2. Hewitt: "What's your priority among our nuclear triad?"

Trump's response (as noted in Rolling Stone):

...

"Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible, who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important."

...

"And one of the things that I'm frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you're going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important."

...

"But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ballgame. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out – if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can't just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn't care. It was hand-to-hand combat."

...

"The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he's saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear – nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That's in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now."

...

Definitely supports the assertion.

[Fumesucker]

3. And every last one of them is going to vote for him

Because he sounds just like them.

[kestrel91316]

4. Yep. Pretty much.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Or, to go one further . . . .

. . . Trump (and, to some extent, his idiot supporters) is the guy who thinks he IS the teacher despite having never gone to school for it.

[MisterP]

6. it's pretty terrifying seeing his gibberish in print--that it's something that's influential

only because people are hearing it in-person or broadcast without bothering to check whether it was the usual politicese gibberish

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/31/oliver_sacks_brilliant_essential_lesson_what_the_legendary_science_writer_taught_us_about_politics_the_human_mind/
www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1334103

[world wide wally]

7. GIBBERISH is exactly the word to describe Trump's solutions to anything

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. And he has has plenty time to come up with an answer to these questions

[SheilaT]

9. He's beginning to sound a lot like

Caribou Barbie, which is a bit scary.

[passiveporcupine]

10. He will never be President

Nobody can make a statement like that, in response to a direct question, and end up President of this country. He is a laughing stock.

[Wounded Bear]

12. I'm sorry, but I won't underestimate the idiocy of some American voters

There are people that think that kind of word salad actually means something.

I have yet to hear an actual valid policy proposal from Trump that in any way has anything behind it besides this kind of gibberish.

[passiveporcupine]

13. I guarantee there would be a lot of idiots who would vote for him

But not enough to elect him.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

18. The black guy stomped their asses, times two. There's not enough of them to...

...overwhelm Hillary, or Bernie for that matter.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. George W. Bush. nt

[passiveporcupine]

19. Bush is no Trump

He's an idiot, but not like Trump. Trump is an idiot, and a racist, bigoted, homophobic and misogynistic blustering idiot at that.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. And the more he acts like a racist, bigoted, etc

they higher his number keep going. Trump is scary, but what is scarier is the amount of people that are getting behind him. We take him lightly at our own peril.

[ms liberty]

14. Word salad.

[passiveporcupine]

20. I love that term

[ms liberty]

21. Me too! So very descriptive!

[laundry_queen]

15. I disagree

Trump is that popular new kid (who is a total fucking liar) that shows up at your school at tells all your friends exactly what they want to hear even when it's not true and it's total bullshit and then they follow him around for the rest of the year thinking he's the coolest thing ever. It's going to take some time for that excitement to wear off and for everyone who was taken with the bullshit to 1) see his true colors and 2) admit they were stupid enough to be taken with the bullshit.

Trump is a sociopath and therefore is pretty good at knowing what people are looking for. He knows what to say to make people think they are getting what they want, without actually giving them what they want. What did he say in that quote? The magic word: jobs. And he told them they were going to get the American Dream back. That is ALL those people need to hear.

I've said it since day 1 and I'll say it again: Trumps bluster is simply a reflection of what a lot of Americans want to hear. Underestimate him and make fun of him at your own risk. There is a large population of people who are thinking exactly what he is saying. Not sure how to counteract it, and it seems to me Democrats have been treating him as a joke, which is exactly what they should not be doing.

[mfcorey1]

16. Excellent, on point description of Trump!