'He knew nothing about so many things': Trump White House staffers were 'startled' by his ignorance

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-ignorance/

While promoting their book "The Divider" on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday morning, journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser revealed anecdotes about Donald Trump's absolute ignorance about world affairs and even geography when he was president that stunned aides.

Speaking with co-host Jonathan Lemire, the two authors were asked about Trump's issues dealing with former leaders and they revealed a story about the former president offering to give away the West Bank.

"There is so much about his meetings with Putin in Helsinki, his efforts to walk out of NATO," host Lemire began. "This headline, which took my breath away when I read it over the weekend, that he nearly gave away the West Bank -- tell us how that could have happened."

[brush]

1. Had no business every being anywhere near the WH.

The republican party keeps scrapping the bottom of the barrel for candidates...see Walker, Boebert, Greene, Abbott, DeSantis.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I think it was obvious to anyone with more than two brain cells

Just from hearing him speak, how ignorant he is about so many things a President should know about. He should never have been in the White House.

[czarjak]

3. Sad!

[peppertree]

4. The only thing that one wanted to know, was 'can I get away with it?'

And even then - if he couldn't, he didn't want to know.

That, I suspect, is what his mouth-breathers like the best about him.

[slightlv]

5. For as long as I can remember,

the phrase "Anyone can grow up to be President" has been uttered over and over and over. I think we discovered that phrase answered to it's ultimate conclusion in Trump.

No... not just "anyone" can grow up to be President. Imagine Bang Bang as President. Imagine MTG as Prez. My god, we thought we were screwed with Palin a heartbeat away. We are so much worse off today. Any one of these Magats "growing up" today has heard this phrase since childhood and has been raised not only believing it, but being indoctrinated in it - especially as far as the theocracy is concerned. We -must- be more careful with our words and phrases, such that good sounding phrases are not taken out of context, and that the good they are meant to convey come with the sense of responsibility they should carry. Just my opinion. YMMV, of course!

[Walleye]

9. As a girl I never thought anyone could drive to be president, and I was right

[KS Toronado]

6. Was he going to trade the West Bank for a real Bank?

And he got all the money?

[Grammy23]

7. He was confident he could fake it. He has gotten by his whole life

by fakery and just pretending to know what he should know. He is such a bully and blowhard that no one seems to have balls to stand up to him. Because he has no filter, he says the meanest, lowest thing he can think of if anyone attempts to try to one up him. I remember at the debates with Hillary Clinton, he seemed to have a bunch of ready snark to throw back at her. He was so disgusting and showed me that I really could hate someone more than I thought I could. I know when he dies, there will be celebrations across the world. Like the world has never seen.

[babylonsister]

8. Kick. nt

[MissMillie]

10. And these were the folks running the country

They were surprised????

Seriously, there were A LOT of us who knew about his ignorance. Hell, he put it on display with every tweet and every time he opened his mouth.

[RussBLib]

11. How much worse can the GOP get?

And we thought Shrubya was "the worst president ever."

[Harker]

13. And we were right for quite a while there.

I really don't want to predict the next step if another one gets elected.

[Corgigal]

12. Did the staffers vote for him?

Cause if they did, then they should be startled by their own personal stupidity.

[chriscan64]

14. The number one thing he was ignorant about

was the limitations on presidents. He often conflated "I'm the president" with "I can do whatever I want."

Edit: Case in point, the ability to declassify documents by decree and/or psychic will.

[shrike3]

15. Just like his supporters.

I can count on Trump supporters knowing little to nothing about anything, and being proud of their ignorance.