Andy Borowitz: DeVos Proves That Trump is Not a Moron

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1. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   October 6, 2017 at 5:59 pm

   What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

   Is Trump the dumb chicken or the dumber egg?

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   • GregB says:

     October 6, 2017 at 6:55 pm

     For Betsy, it’s the cells that form the egg.

     Dear Leader could care less, just as long as can slather either with ketchup.

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2. alphawolf1 (@alphawolf1) says:

   October 6, 2017 at 6:58 pm

   Then that proves he’s an idiot, one step down from a moron.

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3. Judi Flanders says:

   October 6, 2017 at 7:04 pm

   Trump is not a typical politician. I have inside info that he will be great!

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   • Lloyd Lofthouse says:

     October 6, 2017 at 7:20 pm

     LOL

     I’m sure that inside information came from “The Trump” as the source. No one is better at blowing his own __________ (fill in the blank) than him.

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4. alice says:

   October 6, 2017 at 8:18 pm

   Anyone hear the NPR interview with the CBS reporter who just returned from Puerto Rico?
   One thing he said is that people are hoping as infrastructure is rebuilt, it’ll be built better than pre-hurricane – including the schools. He reported that the Secretary of Education is excited for the opportunity to make PR’s schools really great.
   …And we know what that means…

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   • dianeravitch says:

     October 6, 2017 at 10:13 pm

     Watch out, Puerto Rico, here comes KIPP and Uncommon Schools and Achievement First and Academica and Charter Schools USA, etc.

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   • gitapik says:

     October 7, 2017 at 4:17 pm

     Yeah. I caught that one. Arne warmed over. It’s all scripted. Like nowadays’ unit and lesson plans.

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5. Zorba says:

   October 6, 2017 at 9:38 pm

   I have to say that Andy Borowitz, The Onion, Saturday Night Live, John Oliver, etc, etc, etc, may as well give it up.
   Satire is essentially dead, because this administration satirizes itself.

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   • gitapik says:

     October 7, 2017 at 4:26 pm

     Interesting you’d say that. We used to watch Oliver and Noah all the time but they’re getting less funny, now. It’s all too real and the stakes are too high.

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     • Zorba says:

       October 7, 2017 at 6:08 pm

       Yes, I agree, gitapik. 😦

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6. carolmalaysia says:

   October 7, 2017 at 7:07 pm

   Here’s a new book out. I don’t think I could stand the trauma of finding out just how horrible this person is. Trump is much more than a moron.
   ………
   From newyorker.com: Diagnosing Donald Trump, and His Voters

   In a new book, mental-health experts unpack the mortal danger of the President’s mind.

   …Herman, who has done pioneering research on trauma, has written most eloquently on the near-impossibility of speaking about the unimaginable—and now that Donald Trump is, unimaginably, President, she has been speaking out in favor of speaking up. Herman and Lifton have now written introductory articles to a collection called “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.” It is edited by Bandy X. Lee, a psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine who, earlier this year, convened a conference called Duty to Warn.

   Contributors to the book entertain the possibility of applying a variety of diagnoses and descriptions to the President. Philip Zimbardo, who is best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment, and his co-author, Rosemary Sword, propose that Trump is an “extreme present hedonist.” He may also be a sociopath, a malignant narcissist, borderline, on the bipolar spectrum, a hypomanic, suffering from delusional disorder, or cognitively impaired…

   https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/diagnosing-donald-trump

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   • Lloyd Lofthouse says:

     October 7, 2017 at 7:21 pm

     I keep reading others calling Trump a sociopath but he isn’t one. He is cleary a psychopath

     This piece in Psychology Today compares the two.

     “Sociopaths tend to be nervous and easily agitated. They are volatile and prone to emotional outbursts, including fits of rage. They are likely to be uneducated and live on the fringes of society, unable to hold down a steady job or stay in one place for very long. It is difficult but not impossible for sociopaths to form attachments with others. Many sociopaths are able to form an attachment to a particular individual or group, although they have no regard for society in general or its rules. In the eyes of others, sociopaths will appear to be very disturbed. Any crimes committed by a sociopath, including murder, will tend to be haphazard, disorganized and spontaneous rather than planned.

     “Psychopaths, on the other hand, are unable to form emotional attachments or feel real empathy with others, although they often have disarming or even charming personalities. Psychopaths are very manipulative and can easily gain people’s trust. They learn to mimic emotions, despite their inability to actually feel them, and will appear normal to unsuspecting people. Psychopaths are often well educated and hold steady jobs. Some are so good at manipulation and mimicry that they have families and other long-term relationships without those around them ever suspecting their true nature.”

     https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201401/how-tell-sociopath-psychopath

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     • Lloyd Lofthouse says:

       October 7, 2017 at 7:24 pm

       However, since Trump is also a malignant narcissist, maybe he is the first sociopath-psychopath in existence – a mutant who is so far from even extreme as a human, he is another species all by himself.

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