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Big Brain:
President Donald Trump
has repeatedly dedicated moments of his presidency to informing the public about
his intelligence. A few weeks before he took office,
Trump announced he didn’t need daily intelligence briefings because “I’m,
like, a smart person.” In January, he reminded everyone on Twitter that his “two
greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” Now,
he’s telling reporters about his “very, very large brain.” But contrary to
longstanding claims, a bigger brain doesn’t mean a smarter man.
September 27, 2018
https://www.inverse.com/article/49368-brain-size-intelligence-donald-trump
Intelligence:
A mere 51 percent of voters believe
President Donald Trump is intelligent, a new low for a president currently
facing accusations of mismanagement and a lack of fitness to serve from damning
books and even people within his administration, according to a new poll
released Monday.
The 51 percent mark represented a significant drop when compared to results just
under two years ago, according to the
Quinnipiac University Poll. Forty-two percent of respondents answered they
did not believe Trump to be intelligent.
In November 2016, the same poll found 74 percent of voters believed Trump to be
intelligent, representing a stunning 23-point decline since the president’s
election victory. The poll from nearly two years ago was taken less than two
weeks after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.
Earlier this summer, Quinnipiac found 57 percent thought the president was
intelligent. That was an improvement compared to the 54, 53 and 52 percent
results from three polls in January and December.
Overall, the new poll indicated that most voters do not think much of the
president. Sixty-five percent, compared to 30, said Trump was not
“level-headed,” while only 48 percent said he was “mentally stable” and 55
percent said he was not “fit to serve as president.”
September 10, 2018
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-president-intelligent-poll-1114705
April 20: At the end of a lengthy exchange [about Judge Curiel], Tapper
asked: "If you are saying he cannot do his job because of his race, is that
not the definition of racism?"
October 10: President Donald Trump appeared
to challenge Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to “compare IQ tests” a few days
after news emerged that Tillerson
called Trump “a moron” this summer.
In an
interview published Tuesday by Forbes, Trump said that he didn’t believe
Tillerson called him a “moron,” before expressing confidence that he would have
a higher IQ score than the man he made the country’s top diplomat.
“I think it's fake news, but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ
tests. And I can tell you who is going to win,” Trump told Forbes reporter
Randall Lane. Trump also told Lane that he didn’t see a need to appoint the
hundreds of State Department positions that are currently unfilled.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/10/16452502/trump-tillerson-iq-really
January 6: Trump boasts that
he’s ‘like, really smart’ and a ‘very stable genius’ amid questions over his
mental fitness
And he 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.”
Trump's outburst came a day after the public release of the book by [New York
media writer Michael] Wolff, who said he spent time in the West Wing
interviewing top aides, as well as Trump.
January 6: In a series of tweets on Saturday
morning, Trump insisted that he is a "very stable genius" and that critics were
speculating about his mental health because claims that he had colluded with
Russia were “proven to be a total hoax.”
January 15: [Trump's ex-wife] Ivana Trump
told the ITV network's morning show that she didn't think Trump "is going to do
anything irrational," adding "he's a stable genius, definitely."
He has a cynical, innate intelligence for what his base wants to hear. It's like
a divining rod for division, prejudice and stereotyping. His relentless
rhetorical repetition ("No collusion, no collusion, no collusion") is
brilliantly designed to tell folks who are predisposed to like him what they
want to hear.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/opinions/donald-trump-is-not-an-idiot-begala/
July 18: Trump thinks you aren't smart
enough to understand what he was doing [with Putin]
Just hours removed from attempting to
clean up his disastrous performance beside Russian President Vladimir Putin
on Monday in Helsinki, President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning
to make a startling claim: Smart people recognized that the summit -- and the
press conference that followed it — was actually a massive win for him (and the
United States).
November 2:
Cohen told Vanity Fair the comment came during a conversation he had with
Trump following his return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle
November 28: FACT CHECK: Trump's Claims
About 'Record Clean' U.S. Air
Asked why he was skeptical of a federal report detailing the significant
consequences of climate change, Trump said: "One of the problems that a lot of
people like myself — we have very high levels of intelligence, but we're not
necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water, and it's right
now at a record clean."
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671521901/fact-check-trumps-claims-about-record-clean-u-s-air
November 28:
The Trump administration’s effort to delegitimize its own climate change report
continued Tuesday night, with President Trump declaring himself not a “believer”
of the 1,600-page National Climate Assessment,
which paints a dire picture of the coming effects of global warming.
In an
interview with the Washington Post, Trump cited his own “high
levels of intelligence” when asked why he was skeptical of the report, which was
prepared with the input of 13 different federal agencies and 300 scientists.
“One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — we have very high levels
of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said.
