Trump Claims To Know More Than Experts ‘In Many Cases’ After Clashes With Officials

President Donald asserted that he often knows more about issues than his own government experts on Friday afternoon, after publicly pushing undermining FBI Director Christopher Wray and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Director (CDC) Robert Redford’s testimonies on Russian election interference and the COVID-19 vaccine, respectively.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332921
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The blurry background image of Mitch makes that pic a little more terrifying. And it’s already scary enough, since it’s clear Trump is speaking out loud.

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ETA: this company is not related to the Trump Org, but someone in Australia.


He knows a lot about escorts, for sure. These morons don’t even know how to remove stuff from the webarchive.

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A pox on him and his entire family.

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Well now the reporters should ask him to show his work. Can’t get credit or acknowledgement without showing your proof, otherwise your just have an opinion and an asshole, no more no less.

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President Donald asserted that he often knows more about issues than his own government experts on Friday afternoon,

Shocking :expressionless:

First time he’s ever said anything like this. :roll_eyes:

Not many people know this…(r)

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Trump the pimp?

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I’m imagining two futures for this dumbass. Life in prison or life patrolling one his golf courses.

He needs to be removed from office.

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No one should be shocked by statements like this. His followers think they know more than anyone else. Nothing more than playing to his base. I deal with friends any family members who believe they are practically doctors and dentists because they went to appointments once. I’m sure most here deal with attitudes like this often.

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"Only false prophets claim to have all of the answers."

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You know who else knew more than his experts?

[Hint: That’s how he lost WW II.]

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In the sense that authoritarians can issue orders which are job-ending to disobey, Trump knows more than anyone.

Then comes the Reality Altering part…and that’s where the Trump Cult comes in, which is prepred to believe what he says, no matter what.

Trump alters reality until it no longer serves him and then he calls out the lawyers to clean up the mess and he moves on.

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President Donald asserted that he often knows more about issues than his own government experts

Who could ask for better proof that this guy is a stable genius.

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That’s news to him. Don’t think he ever played a virologist either.

“Director (CDC) Robert Redford’s testimonies…”

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For someone whose screen name is “skeptical” . . .

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Stable colbert

Who can forget our stable genius?

  • His “gut” tells him more than “anybody else’s brain” could ever tell him.

  • He assumes he knows more about the military than his generals, more about climate science than his administration’s climate scientists, and more about everything. .

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It was a fake.

The fact that he’s the smartest guy in the room and only listens to people who reassure him that his impulses are correct is the one thing that’s kept this country from utter destruction.

A more competent wanna-be dictator would actually have listened to the experts around him on how to fully dismantle and destroy our institutions and government.

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A couple of years back here in Wichita, we had a several-weeks-long stretch of temperatures over 100 degrees. At one point I told my wife, “I’ve run out of ways to say, ‘Hoo boy, it’s hot.’”

Just because I didn’t comment on it, though, didn’t mean it was any less hot.

The same goes for figuring out what to say about Trump saying stuff like this. Well, actually I do know something: since Congress won’t impeach him again and, even if it did, the Senate won’t convict, the only thing I know to say is, “Be sure you vote!”

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Asking to see his USGA Handicap card crosses a line, it goes far too far :golf::golfing_man:

So unfair (r)

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