The Trump administration: revenge of the anti-nerds

The douchebags and bullies are in charge

Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post wrote that Donald Trump might be our dimmest President ever. While I agree with her assessment, she also presented two possible explanations for his ignorance: either Trump doesn’t care about the facts, or he doesn’t understand them. I would argue that both views are actually correct.

Earlier I wrote that Brett Kavanaugh was a perfect specimen of a douchebag, a person of extreme privilege who believes he deserves everything he has. He believes he hit a triple when he really was just born on third base. Despite his character defects, Kavanaugh at least appears to be an intelligent human being who is an accomplished professional.

Not so with Donald Trump. He is nothing but a small time crook who got his fortune by defrauding the United States from the taxes he owed on his inheritance from his father. Despite this good fortune, he has filed Bankruptcy multiple times, and analysts believe he would have enjoyed greater appreciation on his inheritance had he simply taken that money and put it into an index fund. So much for a business genius.

Trump does have one talent, and that is self promotion. But his self promotion is based upon telling the crowd exactly what they want to hear…