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Donald Trump keeps telling us he is the smartest man in human history . . . or words to that effect.<\/p>\n

He went to the “best schools,” he knows “the best words,” he has a “good brain,” he is the “best dealmaker” in the world.<\/p>\n

With that noggin full of high-powered gray matter, he says he depends on his “gut” to help him make decisions. His gut determines where to lead the country. Trump’s gut is his — and if you don’t mind my using this term from the recent past — “lodestar” in assessing how to decide key matters. Trump says he depends more on his gut than he does on anyone else’s brains.<\/p>\n

What is wrong with all of this?<\/p>\n

My belief all along has been that smart people do not brag about their smarts. They don’t feel a need<\/em> to tell the rest of us lower life forms about their brilliance. They are quietly confident in their knowledge, and in their ability to acquire<\/em> knowledge.<\/p>\n

I know this intimately. Not because I’m particularly smart. I know it because I have some members of my family as well as some good friends who fit that category.<\/p>\n

I’ll allude briefly to a family member. He is a retired economist. He is as deep and well-rounded on many matters as anyone I have encountered over my nearly 69 years on Earth. He is a Renaissance man of the first order, a major-league Brainiac. Has he ever bragged openly about his brain, his IQ, his hefty bag of knowledge? Not in my presence. Granted, I haven’t spent every waking hour of every day with this person, but I feel quite confident in asserting that he doesn’t need to tell anyone he knows how smart he is; they know it already.<\/p>\n

I want to mention all of this to remind us all that the president of the United States, who takes phony pride in his brilliance is, um, how shall I say it . . . lying!<\/em><\/p>\n

He is running from the reality of what he surely must know at some level, that he is in over his head, that he is whiffing daily on matters that — for someone as brilliant as he claims to be — should be easy to handle, to resolve.<\/p>\n

I also know some folks who are of considerable financial means. They don’t brag about their wealth, unlike Trump, who continually tells us that he is a self-made gazillionaire. But . . . is he? Really and truly?<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether he is as rich<\/em> as he says he is. My hunch is that he isn’t. I am more comfortable assessing whether he is as smart<\/em> as he claims to be.<\/p>\n

I feel confident in saying that his brain isn’t nearly as “good” as he suggests it is.\u00a0A cursory reading of the utterly mangled syntax in those Trump tweets tells me all I need to know to make that determination.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump keeps telling us he is the smartest man in human history . . . or words to that effect. He went to the “best schools,” he knows “the best words,” he has a “good brain,” he is the “best dealmaker” in the world. With that noggin full of high-powered gray matter, he says … Continue reading President ‘Best Words’ keeps on boasting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,8167,8166],"class_list":["post-33881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-iq","tag-trumps-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33889,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33881\/revisions\/33889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}