Mentally Incompetent Trump Says Military Officials 'Dumbest People I've Ever Met'

During a campaign event in Iowa this week, Donald Trump proclaimed that military officials and leaders were "some of the dumbest people I've ever met." The mentally incompetent former President has repeatedly tried to attack people who disagree with him as either corrupt or stupid in an effort to make himself look better by comparison, but these attacks on the military are going too far during a time of international crises. Farron Cousins discusses Trump's statements.

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During a campaign event in Iowa this week, Donald Trump told a crowd of people that military officials were, quote, some of the dumbest people I've ever met. The man who the day before had become distracted by a fly, says that it's the military generals

That are just too darn stupid to be able to do their jobs. The man who looked directly at the eclipse a couple years ago, even though everybody said, make sure you don't do that, you could damage your eyes, but he still, he thinks that military officials are too stupid to do their jobs. The man who actually suggested injecting bleach or injecting light in order to fight C O V I D thinks that military officials are too dumps. Should I continue? Like, do you want me to give you more examples of how stupid Donald Trump is and how crazy it is for him to call other people stupid? Or do you get the idea? Here's what he said. I don't wanna tell you what I had to go through with these people. Some of the dumbest people I've ever met in my life, some of the dumbest people I've ever met in my life, he says, and in context, by the way, he was talking about, of course, general Mark Millie, who he now hates.

Uh, and Millie was telling him, Hey, it's actually cheaper if we leave some of this military equipment in Afghanistan, rather than trying to work out the logistics to bring it home and trump's like that. How can that be? You just put, just put gas in the plane and fight the plane back? Because Trump doesn't understand something called logistics. It's not as simple as like, all right, just gas up the jet, fly it on back. Here we go. Like, that's, that's not how that works at all. But of course, Donald Trump is not somebody who, whoever, you know, served in the military. So he doesn't understand logistics. I never served, but I still understand logistics. But Trump does not because he is in fact stupid.

But here's the reason Donald Trump does things like that. Trump always has to project that he is the best. He is the strongest, he is the smartest, he is the best looking. He has to do that for these crowds because that's part of the cult of personality, right? He is smarter than everyone else. It doesn't matter if you're a four star general in the military, your stupid compared to Donald Trump. You can't understand things the way that Donald Trump can understand things. It doesn't matter if you're a seasoned, you know, reporter who understands all of this, or a scientist or a doctor. No, Trump is smarter than you. And that, of course, is the image he projects that causes these, you know, dumb people, let's be honest, to gravitate towards him. That is why they worship him, because they view him as these things. He is wealthier, he is smarter, he is in better shape, he is better looking.

These are all things, by the way, that Donald Trump has brought up himself within the last month alone on the campaign trail. He actually said, you know, a week or so ago, he's in better shape than Biden. He said he could beat up Biden in a fight. I mean, you, you can literally look at the two men and see that one is out of shape and one is in shape regardless of age. But he projects this image. His cult followers eat it up because the, even though they can see the difference, you know, between the intellect, they can see the difference in the body type. They don't care if he says it. It's true. If he says it, I'll believe it because I want to believe it because I've now kind of based my whole personality on loving and admiring Donald Trump. Not a smart move, but we're not dealing with smart people. And when it comes to smart people, I don't think there's very many people in this country at all, that Donald Donald Trump is smarter than, in fact, the only people, he is smarter than are the people who blindly follow him. As for the military officials, I may not agree with every decision they make. They may be way too hawkish for my liking, but I'm willing to bet each and every one of them is a million times more intelligent than Donald J. Trump.