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Wait - so Trump is claiming to be smart because he has an uncle from Oxford/MIT? (Original Post) kpete Oct 2019 OP
Trump talks worse than a Palin tossed salad speech.. riversedge Oct 2019 #1
That's it! Palin has learned mind control and this is all her. She can see Russia. n/t 5X Oct 2019 #5
But, at least MyOwnPeace Oct 2019 #7
Trumps brain lives in a dead zone nt 42bambi Oct 2019 #2
I think I'm fairly intelligent .... CatMor Oct 2019 #3
That proves your intelligence Leith Oct 2019 #18
Thirty seconds online: grumpyduck Oct 2019 #4
John Kennedy, who studied at Oxford, is a Republican senator from Louisiana. Shrike47 Oct 2019 #6
My brother-in-law is a PhD, a naturalist and professor of ornithology. Croney Oct 2019 #8
The fact that the paragraph above was part of a speech by the president of the united states... tymorial Oct 2019 #9
45 is blathering about his uncle,John George Trump, who was an MIT PhD... VOX Oct 2019 #10
Well, you know, it proves that Trump has "smart genes." Jim__ Oct 2019 #11
That would be like me saying I have musical talent because I lived next door to Elvis. Initech Oct 2019 #12
Does the people that sit and listen to that asshole have Blue_true Oct 2019 #13
Good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart... dalton99a Oct 2019 #14
Can someone translate that pile of mincemeat for me? smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #15
OK, here goes: "John Kennedy is bright. You guys in the audience are too ignorant to know this muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #20
I heard that and damn near threw up...... a kennedy Oct 2019 #16
If he really liked well educated people, he'd be a Democrat voting for Warren or Buttigieg. milestogo Oct 2019 #17
And you're a major disappointment to him... czarjak Oct 2019 #19

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
3. I think I'm fairly intelligent ....
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:29 PM
Oct 2019

but I have to admit I don't understand a damn thing the idiot talks about at his rallies.

grumpyduck

(6,240 posts)
4. Thirty seconds online:
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:30 PM
Oct 2019

There's a John Kennedy who teaches at the MIT real estate school. He's been a lecturer (not a professor, although the two do get confused) since 1994 and has run programs in entrepreneurship.

I would venture to propose that T never took a class from the guy.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
6. John Kennedy, who studied at Oxford, is a Republican senator from Louisiana.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:34 PM
Oct 2019

It’s the Trump stream of consciousness speech style. Word salad.

Croney

(4,661 posts)
8. My brother-in-law is a PhD, a naturalist and professor of ornithology.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:36 PM
Oct 2019

So it stands to reason that I am a bird expert. I mean, really! I can look at a parrot and tell that it is not a crow.

tymorial

(3,433 posts)
9. The fact that the paragraph above was part of a speech by the president of the united states...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:43 PM
Oct 2019

Its shocking. Like and stuff? Are you kidding me with this?

VOX

(22,976 posts)
10. 45 is blathering about his uncle,John George Trump, who was an MIT PhD...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:46 PM
Oct 2019

Although the guy’s been dead for 34 years. Clearly, the gray matter was distributed quite unevenly among the Family Trump.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump

Jim__

(14,077 posts)
11. Well, you know, it proves that Trump has "smart genes."
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:49 PM
Oct 2019

So, you might not know what that means, but he knows that because, you know, he has "smart genes."

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. Does the people that sit and listen to that asshole have
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:10 PM
Oct 2019

spongy brains or something? Trump is incapable of putting together a clear sentence.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
15. Can someone translate that pile of mincemeat for me?
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:42 PM
Oct 2019

God, he is insufferable! "cause I'm a big, like student. I like academics, believe it or not."

Nope, don't believe it at all. You are stupid and borderline illiterate and have probably never read a book in your life. Why are you so afraid of having your school transcripts released if you are so brilliant? You are a fraud and a failure and you know it.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
20. OK, here goes: "John Kennedy is bright. You guys in the audience are too ignorant to know this
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 12:14 PM
Oct 2019

but I'm not, because my uncle taught at MIT, but John Kennedy went to Oxford, and that's the best university there is. He puts on a 'country' way of speaking".

That really is the translation of that excerpt. He was saying that since he's smarter than the audience thanks to his genes, he knows that Oxford is a top university, and now he's taught them something. As a bonus, he said that his Republican supporter just pretends to speak like his voters (he did go on to say "we know the country's smarter than the other guys anyway", when he realised he was actually insulting the people in front of him; which he did by insulting people who live in cities).

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
17. If he really liked well educated people, he'd be a Democrat voting for Warren or Buttigieg.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:56 PM
Oct 2019

The Clintons, Obamas, Kerry, Biden, Gore... all highly educated, intelligent people.

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