I am very detail oriented and my job entails a lot of public speaking in front of crowds. Thinking that the US has 57 states can be a misstatement or it can be stupidity. To me it is of marginal importance except that Barack Obama was supposed to be the world’s smartest man, who never released any of his grades, and Hillary Clinton, who flunked the DC bar exam, the world’s smartest woman. But it is of more importance than remembering nearly two decades later just how many days the stock market did or did not close after 9/11. Sounds like inside baseball for the 25,000 or so who worked on Wall Street then and not very relevant to the 320 million of the rest of us.
I don’t work on Wall Street. Don’t work for a brokerage. Don’t live near NYC. Yet I remember the market being closed for a few days after the attack. Why? Can’t say. But when I heard him say it I knew he was wrong. You know, if this was a once in a while thing, I could pass it off as faulty memory or something misstated. It happens with regularity. He’s now doubled down and has claimed he has the best memory. So put him with Hill and Obummer.