Trump is so stupid.
"President Trump Speaks to Reporters in the Oval Office" (video)
https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-speaks-to-reporters-in-the-oval-office/655175
At one point early on he says he's not going to apply tariffs to oil. (About 4.45)
One of the journalists later asks him so you're not going to be applying the tariffs to oil and he responds saying he didn't say that. (About 10.30)
"I don't like the fact that the helicopter was at the exact same level as the airplane"
Uh
"The plane should have been stopped or the helicopter could have stopped, the plane can't be stopped but the plane is on a schedule ..."
Uh
"So I don't know. Do you blame it on the air traffic controller too? In addition to the pilots? Maybe the pilot's fault they should have seen it I would have thought they should have seen it because it was a plane it was loaded up with ... Lights And everybody uh you can see it from Kennedy center you can see it very easily"
"So all I want is the most competent people in our country to be Air traffic controllers. It's a very important position And other positions too, by the way we're not only talking about ... but air traffic controllers maybe In particular. They have to be brilliant with computers. Brilliant with graphics. Tthey have to be a psychologically really really smart. And uh there would be a lot of people who wouldn't be able to do that"
Brilliant with graphics??
Edit: does he mean radar screens?! 🤣
Honestly, there's no sense trying to parse what he's saying. That gives him too much respect, too much credit. Just say he vomited something new out today and move on.
@volkris I'm slightly mixed on this point. I think it's worth reproducing some of it because people don't tend to hear the quotes themselves and so they don't know how ludicrous he really is.
The newspapers don't reproduce it verbatim.
I think this is why what's his name released the Trump Tapes. So that people could see his actual words.
But I agree, there's no point doing verbatim transcripts of his garbage every day. That's for sure.
@jmcrookston Oh yeah I would point out how stupid and incoherent he is. I just wouldn't waste time trying to find meaning that probably doesn't exist, in part because that detracts from the lack of meaning.
It actually kind of helps him out. If he can't barf out coherent sentences, why should we pretend that his brain is functioning enough to do so?
Really that's what we're working with. He just ran a campaign saying that the other guy doesn't have a functional brain, let's not pretend that Trump does any better than that.
@volkris Oh yeah I don't look for meaning in his garbage. I just point out a few quotes so that people can see how ludicrous his verbal diarrhea is.