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Let’s start with the undeniable fact that Donald J Trump is not very smart. Not only is his native IQ ridiculously low, but he is not very educated–correction, not very educable. Add to this the fact that he has neither humility nor self-awareness. When you encounter an individual who is the least intelligent person in the room and also the person who is certain that he is the smartest one in the room, you’d better hope that that that man never gets into a position requiring intelligence or expertise. In particular, make sure that he is never put in charge of fixing your car or unclogging your toilet—no less running your country. And for certain, see to it that he has no control of a massive army or a nuclear arsenal.
This is a man who is stupid enough to brag how well he did on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which is not a test of intelligence but a screening tool for dementia. And for once I agree with our Pres. We need a person in the oval office who can count backward by 7’s. This is the man who recommended taking a swig of Lysol to ward off COVID—and he actually offered the idea that if it worked on external surfaces, it might be considered to work internally.
This is the man who thought it would be a great idea to invade Iran. No matter that history has shown with absolute consistency what a mistake it would be to fool around in the Middle East. No matter that this man told us that he would keep us out of foreign entanglements.
Did he have a clue of what his goals were? Did he have an inkling that this wouldn’t be a quick in-and-out affair? Did he have a plan as to what might be his exit strategy? And look, things have worked perfectly. As desired, we have regime change. We killed the old Ayatollah, who was promptly replaced by the young Ayatollah. Never mind that Junior is more extreme than old Dad. Never mind that the Iranians, however outgunned, could still aim at a range of targets in the Middle East. Never mind that they could close down the shipping of oil throughout the world.
Okay, so none of this is startling news to my informed readers. But I heard something the other night that somehow puts this in a whole new light, or at least throws light on the limited intellectual abilities of this frump Trump. This overly concrete man hasn’t the ability to appreciate anything that is at all abstract. Everything comes down to “the deal,” and every deal comes out to making a financial profit.
Recall that as the Israelis were taking their revenge on Gaza and reducing whole neighborhoods and cities to rubble, all Trump could see was a great real estate opportunity. Once the war stopped, what a great opportunity to rebuild and attract luxury tourists. Back in February of 2025, his vision of Gaza was that it could be, in his words, the Riviera of the Middle East. Forget about lives lost. Forget about homes destroyed, families displaced, and famine all around. All the head honcho could think about was luxury hotels, the five-star Trump Gaza rising up from the ashes, bringing in many shekels.
So if you listened to him bluster on about Iran, you would know that the leader of the Free World now has a solution for Iran outlined in the only sense he is capable, in the form of another money maker. Iran would drop its nuclear program and forget about funding violent groups throughout the Middle East for a simple exchange that would be a boon for all. The US and Iran would agree to make the Strait of Hormuz into the equivalent of a toll road, and everyone in power would walk away with their pockets loaded. The Trump solution: Make the Strait the premier pathway for all world shipping—at a significant price for every vessel passing through—giving Iran ten cents on the dollar, which would still be a lot of cash. Although not a penny of this would fund education in the US or, God forbid, poverty programs, that money could richly support Pete Hegseth at al and allow us to engage in lots more wars.
Actually, by the way, the Trumpster never calls them wars. Describing the military activity in Iran, he has referred to this as an “excursion.” Even for Trump, I thought that is a strange way to describe what his army is doing, until the following was pointed out to me: Quite certainly his advisors have told him not to refer to his invasion of Iran using the harsh term “war.” Rather, they have recommended that he use the far more benign term “incursion.” But this mentally challenged man either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about the difference between incursion and excursion—or far more likely, he meant one when he said the other.
The schmuck.
