I am not at all sure that Trump is an ignoramus. He has enough self-awareness to stay off alcohol (an enormous achievement for someone who is half-Scottish). I have it on very good authority from someone who had a chance to see him up close frequently over a ten year period that he stayed away from drugs and drug-###### women, so he is not a sexual predator (the business partner of a friend worked in the modelling industry in Manhattan and had to chaperone/safeguard super models and this guy reported that Trump would show up at night clubs every night in the 80s and 90s, stay to get photographed or mentioned in the press, then go home as quickly as possible avoiding the party crowd as much as possible).
He plays up to his persona. He is a rich man, but he understands the social psychology of lower middle class and working class whites. A large part of Trump's appeal is the Long Island thing: he belongs to a certain type that is well-represented in all the white ethnic communities of the Tri-State area. The stick-up-their-ass types prefer euphemism and pretension. They confuse it with class. He is a blond-haired version of Rodney Dangerfield. The laugh is on his critics.
On second thought I want to give you one more insight. Specifically, I call him an ignoramus: it means a person who is wilfully ignorant. I think that’s part of his shtick and of course hilarious (he is Rodney Dangerfield).
When the syndicated conservative commentator George Will wrote a think piece that described the numerous ways in which Trump was wrong on some topic, Trump answered: “people only think he’s smart because he wears glasses.”
I am not at all sure that Trump is an ignoramus. He has enough self-awareness to stay off alcohol (an enormous achievement for someone who is half-Scottish). I have it on very good authority from someone who had a chance to see him up close frequently over a ten year period that he stayed away from drugs and drug-###### women, so he is not a sexual predator (the business partner of a friend worked in the modelling industry in Manhattan and had to chaperone/safeguard super models and this guy reported that Trump would show up at night clubs every night in the 80s and 90s, stay to get photographed or mentioned in the press, then go home as quickly as possible avoiding the party crowd as much as possible).
He plays up to his persona. He is a rich man, but he understands the social psychology of lower middle class and working class whites. A large part of Trump's appeal is the Long Island thing: he belongs to a certain type that is well-represented in all the white ethnic communities of the Tri-State area. The stick-up-their-ass types prefer euphemism and pretension. They confuse it with class. He is a blond-haired version of Rodney Dangerfield. The laugh is on his critics.
On second thought I want to give you one more insight. Specifically, I call him an ignoramus: it means a person who is wilfully ignorant. I think that’s part of his shtick and of course hilarious (he is Rodney Dangerfield).
When the syndicated conservative commentator George Will wrote a think piece that described the numerous ways in which Trump was wrong on some topic, Trump answered: “people only think he’s smart because he wears glasses.”
That makes me happy!
Food for thought!