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On 4/21/2025 9:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

April 18, 2025
Donald Trump branded 'dumbest President ever' after six-word comment about Congo

Donald Trump has been labelled the "dumbest President ever" after his six- word comment about the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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A post to X caught Trump commenting on the deal, which led to some agreeing he was the "dumbest President ever".

The post to X reads: "WTF. In an unbelievable showing of stupidity, Donald Trump admits he doesnt know where the Congo in Africa is: 'many people come from the Congo. I dont know what that is. ' He is the dumbest president we ever had. "

He is far and away the most stump-stupid president ever. The irony is, I don't think he is entirely unintelligent, or at least he wasn't in the past. But "intelligent" and "smart" are not the same thing.

Intelligence is the *capacity* to learn, and to learn and understand faster than
less intelligent people making the same effort. Being smart, or knowledgeable, is *having* learned useful information. But Trump is a lazy, cheating, chiseling
fat fuck who *never* applied whatever intelligence he had, except to finding novel ways to swindle people. He never worked hard academically in his life, which is why he had to pay someone to take the SAT for him, and why all of his professors say he is the stupidest fucking student any of them ever had.

I have two friends who illustrate this dichotomy perfectly. One, RW, is in the top five of the most intelligent people I know, but he's utterly intellectually lazy — and wouldn't you just know he is the *only* dedicated Trumpswab among all
my friends (I have a few other friends who are a bit Trumpy, but not like this guy). The other friend, SH, never seemed to me to be particularly intelligent —
not a dullard, just not really bright — but he studied hard and worked his ass
off and became a medical doctor, specializing in emergency medicine. He had to go to med school in two foreign countries, Mexico and some Caribbean nation, because of the near impossibility of getting into med school in the USA in the late 1970s (I have two other friends who had to go to Mexico as well).

Trump is willfully and aggressively stupid, and based on his obvious cognitive decline, appears decidedly unintelligent to go with his stupidity. Trump illustrates perfectly the common understanding, which is actually a misunderstanding, of the Dunning-Kruger effect. That understanding is that stupid people are too stupid to know just how stupid they are. Trump's hilarious
boasting about how much he knows ("I know more about _______ than anyone!") is the proof that he is stupid — and he's too fucking stupid to know that the boasting *is* the proof of how stupid he is. Here's a great collection of all the things Trump has bragged about knowing "better than anyone", and *every one*
of the 23 lie/boasts is sourced:

https://www.axios.com/2019/01/05/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody

Some of those are things about which Trump probably does — or did, before dementia — know something, but he doesn't know "more than anyone" about *any* of
them.

Some were not surprised by Trump's lack of knowledge on the Congo, with one writing: "I'm not surprised. " Another fumed: "Trumps cluelessness about
the Congo is a new low, geography matters when youre leading a nation.

"This isnt just ignorance; its a dangerous blind spot for someone who once held the nuclear codes. We deserve better than a president who cant find Africa on a map. "

As I have shown, Trump isn't just stupid (ignorant) — he is *willfully* and *aggressively* stupid.

Another tried to defend Trump, adding: "Hes not even saying that he doesnt know where it is. Hes saying he doesnt know 'what' that is. "

Others, however, were more forgiving of the US president and heralded his honesty. They wrote: "He's the most honest President we've ever had. "

Trump's comments on the Congo come as Erik Prince, a supporter of the President, says he has agreed to help the Democratic Republic of Congo with its plan to secure and tax its mineral wealth.

Though plans are in the works for the US and the Congo to work together on securing the minerals, it has not been made clear how the Trump administration will help.

Mr Boulos, who is Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, suggested US firms could
be involved in the deal and would be part of the "path forward" for developing the minerals.

He said: "You have heard about a minerals agreement. We have reviewed the Congo's proposal. I am happy to announce that the president and I have
agreed on a path forward for its development. Rest assured, American companies are operating transparently and will stimulate local economies. "

Congolese lawmakers have since said it is "essential" for the Congo and United States to work together when it comes to bringing about peace
efforts.

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