Trump’s Intelligence

Ted Folkert

January 9, 2017

The words: Trump and intelligence should not appear in the same sentence. Those two words should be declared mutually exclusive. He has no intelligence. Yet he has the arrogant audacity to criticize our intelligence department – a department of trained employees who work diligently the world over to protect our country from harm – and not without an element of danger on their part, sometimes fatally dangerous.

What right does Trump have to question the country’s intelligence? He doesn’t even have an operable level of intelligence. His intelligence consists of insulting anyone who disagrees with him or exposes his lack of intelligence. Like a spoiled child who lacks discipline and runs to his mommy to put his face in her lap and throw a tantrum. He never grew up. He is not an adult. He is an unconscious adolescent, an ostrich with his head in the sand.

His intelligence was obvious when he was an average to below average college student with a rich dad. He had better things to do.

Then, later he became a cowardly draft-dodger. Like Dick Cheney, he had better things to do.

His intelligence was obvious when he was discovered to be a failing business man even though he started with enough wealth to last him forever.

He showed us his intelligence when he declared bankruptcy numerous times due to stupid business decisions, which he survived by conning his father into signing his multi-million dollar bank loans. Bank loans that he would eventually be unable to repay as agreed and then escape in bankruptcy, stiffing the bank that tried to help him in his business endeavors.

He showed his intelligence when he figured out how to con he US government by not paying income taxes, by deducting the losses of his investors in his business endeavors, not his losses, their losses. He says that makes him a smart guy.

His intelligence is exemplified every time he opens his mouth or sends out one of his childish tweets slandering someone or some organization that pointed out his childish and uneducated intelligence.

He shows his intelligence when he declares economic war on numerous US trading partners without even the elementary step of understanding the situation and considering the ultimate consequences of such action.

He shows his intelligence when he buddies up with one of the most vicious tyrants of our time, an international trouble maker who accumulates billions of dollars while ignoring the plight of the people he is supposed to be leading. Now he says he wants to work with Putin. How can you work with a venomous snake? If you try to shake hands with him, he bites you with poisonous fangs. Trump wants to work with him because he is invested in both Putin and Russia. Like Leonard Cohen sang: “Everybody knows.”

His intelligence is obvious when he cons career minded students into taking advantage of his brilliance by paying him enormous sums of money to learn how to be successful like him, and then delivering nothing of consequence in return. That isn’t intelligence. It is fraud. It is a pathetic result of avarice of the worst kind. It should be treated as criminal behavior. Intentional fraudulent activity of a lesser kind has been prosecuted many times with the perpetrators punished by fines and incarceration, but not The Donald. No, he gets a pass and is allowed to repay a portion of the money scammed from the victims and keep the balance in his pocket. Whoever said that crime doesn’t pay? It pays everyday with guys like him. He has proved it many times over.

And then our misinformed electorate decides he should be the leader of the free world. Go figure!

That is worse than shooting your-self in the foot. What can his voters have been thinking about? How could they have been so horribly misinformed? Many of the victims of his policies will be the previous supporters of his wrath against the proletariat. Buyer’s remorse will be rampant among us, but with no return policy.

How many times have we heard the phrase that he initiated among his supporters: “Build the Wall?” What a ridiculous statement, which is yet another example of his lack of intelligence. Of course, he was just feeding red meat to the pit bulls that provided his cheering section during his campaign. If you want to enter the US from Mexico you don’t have to climb over a wall. There are plenty of other ways to enter and plenty of smugglers willing to get you through the border.

If Trump wants to show some intelligence he should keep his mouth shut for a while. Every time he opens it, trash comes out. And he should reconsider the billionaires he has selected to make life better for the working class in this country. The rich are rich enough. They don’t need a tax break. They have been rewarded sufficiently by “we the people,” who have provided a healthy business environment and the educational, political, economic and transportation infrastructures necessary for them to accumulate their massive wealth. It is time for the rich to pay for rebuilding the infrastructure, not to accumulate more wealth that they could never spend.

We must hold his feet to the fire and not let up. Tenacity is the trait we must demonstrate to this would-be tyrant of our great country. It will drive him nuts and keep him from focusing on his quest to destroy our economy and our quest for equality of opportunity. We must interrupt his plan for an aristocratic society and total control by the rich and powerful.

Think about it!