It’s time to accept that Donald Trump is never going to learn basic stuff about the world

It’s time to accept that Donald Trump is never going to learn basic stuff about the world
Updated by Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Aug 16, 2016, 8:50a

On Monday, Donald Trump gave a speech billed as a major address on terrorism policy. It was nonsense, meant literally: not merely wrong but actually incoherent; a mishmash of logical fallacies, lies, and contradictions.

Over the course of a single speech, Trump managed to: completely contradict many of his most important past positions on foreign policy; reject nation building even while endorsing an indefinite occupation of Iraq; and make embarrassing factual errors about a whole host of topics ranging from NATO to the rise of ISIS.

Trump has been running for president for more than a year, and his foreign policy vision still doesn’t cross the basic threshold of “being logically coherent and grounded in actual facts.” It’s time to accept that the GOP’s nominee won’t change — that he really will never learn the most fundamental stuff you’d expect a presidential candidate to have mastered before he began his campaign.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12489110/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-nonsense