George Will: Trump has a dangerous disability

The Washington Post ^ | May 3, 2017 | George F. Will

[EveningStar]

It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.

In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.” Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possible and tempting to see this not as a historical howler about a man who died 122 years ago, but as just another of Trump’s verbal fender benders, this one involving verb tenses...

What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation’s history. As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something...

[Ancesthntr]

“Go while you still have an ounce of dignity.”

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Sorry, you’re too late.

[Dawgreg]

YES!!! I just hope he becomes more irrelevant as the days go by.......;)

[LeonardFMason]

Trumps knows THIS history:

George Will is a boring crybaby.

[headstamp 2]

Hey George, when you become president you can speak the way you want.

Until then take a hike.

[eyeamok]

When are we going to start Drug Testing All Journalists engaged in Commercial Speech??

[Will88]

After getting everything wrong about Trump through the long presidential campaign, Will now struggles to find some niche of relevancy.

[truth_seeker]

If Will had any experience in the military or in commerce, he would have met many top leaders that talked like Trump, not like university perfectionists.

I remember well early in my career, meeting oil industry engineers and geologists.

They sounded like hillbillies to me. Then I learned they held MS degrees in engineering and geology, were extremely well read, sophisticated, and lots of fun to be around.

Same thing in building and construction. My Dad was a builder, and taught me to respect people from the beginning.

On the day the builder needs ditches dug, the ditch digger is the most important ne, in his universe.

So goes real life.

George Will lives in a world of intellectual snobs, plain and simple.

The last election pretty much proved the population thinks more of common sense folks with accomplishments, than intellectual snobs and professor types.

[poconopundit]

How many skyscrapers has Georgie Will built?

Many moons ago, I wrote a vanity analyzing Will's modus operandi: telling a non-referenced historical tale to make people think he's smart, then pontificating on a subject so no one can understand him.

The average person comes away saying, "I don't understand what he said, but he sounds wicked smart." He's been play this con game since the days of David Brinkley -- the longest-running fake commentator in the MSM.

George Will is the only kind of "conservative" that WaPo can tolerate -- a bowtie odd fish that can be easily dismissed as a crackpot.

The Tower of Babble vs. the Tower of Trump

[sport]

Mark

[haircutter]

George Will just rolled over to 76 on May 4th...and is admitted ‘low voltage atheist. That explains a lot..

Was glad when Fox News did not renew his visits to the panel on Special Report...but since then I've left Special Report also...

[PapaBear3625]

WTF is up with these #NeverTRUMPers? WTF has TRUMP disappointed Conservatives on? From what I can tell, he's been very very good to Conservatives!!!

That's the whole thing. These pundits are not paid to be conservatives. They are paid to PRETEND to advocate conservatism, while working hard to torpedo real conservatives.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Freddie Douglass is a minor character, a side note. If it were not for his skin color you would have never heard of him.

[MuttTheHoople]

Mr. George the atheist, your one day closer to dying and going to hell.

[EveningStar]

It's at NR under a different title:

Trump Does Not Know What It Is to Know

I like Will but he is obsessive with Trump and that's causing him to lose credibility.

[minnesota_bound]

NBC/MSNBC job questionnaire that George Will was filling out:
Question: What do you think of Donald Trump?
George Will: Trump has a dangerous disability

NBC/MSNBC HR person: You’re HIRED!

[Intolerant in NJ]

George Will: Trump has a dangerous disability...I'm always amused when people like stilted, prissy, affected, condescending George Will complain about Trump's demeanor and attitude with such slurs as that he has a "dangerous disability" - they want a buttoned-down, suave, movie-star quality executive such as Henry Fonda to help them return to their Camelot glory days of good'ol JFK - they're the ones who complain that Trump has no originality and imagination, but they're also the ones who can't think outside the box themselves and understand that we're in a new age of government which can use new ways of approaching problems......

[Liz]

Amen.......guys like George cant see the forest for the trees.

[Yardstick]

When was the last time George Will wrote something this spiteful about a lib. Trump is up there fighting the good fight and Will uses his column inches to bite Trump’s ankles.

[Mr Rogers]

I’d tell George to stuff his bow tie up his butt, sideways, except I’m pretty sure George would enjoy it...

[PGalt]

Thanks for the posts;pings. Won’t read Will (haven’t in years). Irrelevant.