Posted on 08/13/2015 12:50:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As PJM’s D.C. Editor Bridget Johnson reports, Donald Trump once again hurled a personal insult at a rival for the nomination that questions the candidate’s intelligence.
He said that Jeb Bush was “not a smart person” and Marco Rubio was “foolish and stupid.” He called John McCain a “dummy.” He said that Rick Perry should “take an IQ test.”
Now he comes out and says Rand Paul is “a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain.”
What is it with these sandbox epithets? Five year olds shout “stupid” and “dummy” at one another, not grown men seeking the most powerful office in the world.
The obvious explanation is that Donald Trump has a massive insecurity when it comes to his own intelligence. He uses the insults to try to prove to himself that he is the equal of the mostly accomplished men and women who are running for the presidency. He also constantly refers to himself a “smart”or “a really smart person,” trying to convince himself of his own intellectual gifts.
He could prove it to us all — if he would only release his college transcripts.
As the Daily Caller pointed out in an article last month, Trump is oblivious to the hypocrisy of his refusal to release his college grades:
Calling President Barack Obama “the least transparent president in the history of this country” back in 2012, Trump offered to give $5 million to the charity of the president’s choosing if he released his college application and transcript.
“The check will be given within one hour after he releases all of the records,” Trump declared in a video.
But now that Trump himself is a candidate for president, he is not exactly volunteering the same transparency he once demanded of Obama. Asked by The Daily Caller if Trump was willing to release his college records before he officially entered the race for the White House, a spokesman for Trump said Team Trump would “pass” on the opportunity in April. Emails Tuesday and Wednesday to the Trump campaign to see if the candidate had reconsidered now that he is officially a candidate went unreturned.
Trump’s refusal to release his transcript is especially peculiar since he regularly touts his brilliance and phenomenal college success on the campaign trail.
“I went to the Wharton School of Business,” Trump routinely notes during campaign speeches. “I’m, like, a really smart person.”
He often adds, as he did in a recent speech in Las Vegas attended by TheDC, that Wharton is the best business school in the country and that he did great there.
And yet, for some reason, Trump doesn’t want to show the American people just how great he did.
Not all candidates release their college grades. But what happens when a candidate’s intelligence — or lack of it — becomes an issue? In the case of President Obama, his campaign was touting his “brilliance,” so requesting that he release his college grades was entirely reasonable, and indeed, expected.
The same could be fairly said of Donald Trump. By questioning the intelligence of his rivals, he is implying that he is smarter than they are. Very well, put your grades where you mouth is, Trump. Let us have a peek at how “great” you did at Wharton, and the other college you attended for two years, Fordham.
Trump’s infantile insults aside, he should also release his grades to show he isn’t a liar. I suspect it will hardly matter to the Trumpbots who mindlessly cheer this idiotic clown on.
When Hillary releases all her emails.
Standard Answer should be “as soon as Obama releases his”
That’s funny.
as soon as the kenyan does mr. moron.
Who has asked for them?
Who cares?????
He’s keeping a lot of idiots working, eh Rick?
And quite a few maroons too.
President Reagan was a middling student (a C student, but back when a C would be the equivalent of a B today) at a third tier college. It was not a reflection on either his intelligence nor his ability.
Frankly, if the dude can make billions of dollars, I’m
pretty much willing to accept the fact that he’s exceptionally
savvy without any college records.
At this rate they are going to run out of irrelevant crap to ask for.
When Obama releases his.
Still waiting for Dorkbama the Muslim’s grades.
If he even got grades.
If he was really there.
Etc/etc.
The only data more secret than Baraq’s LSATs is his golf scores.
The man’s not stupid, I don’t think many are questioning that. Outspoken to a perhaps uncomfortable degree yes, but stupid, no.
Interesting. They deride his insults, but they sure do offer plenty of theirs !
Only when Obama releases his real birth certificate.
Yep!
Humor me........
What IF....... there WERE no College Transcripts to release?..
Him attending college is a lie.. like everything else attached to him..
No birth certificate, no college, no social security number.. no anything else worth anything..
Thats why he is called ZERO... he’s nothing.. a spectre.. a ghost.. an invented life..
totally an act.. a persona.. a role he’s playing..
NO Evidence of anything.. thats why the liberals picked him..
Conservatives on a Wild Goose chase as they are getting GOOSED..
with some of them LIKING IT.. i.e. Boehner, McConnell..
yes you are right...the e-mails must be hammered daily and another thing. Mr. Trump, the next time your asked about specifics by a media brat simply reply...you elected this kenyan twice on “hope’n change and fundamentally transform”. never once asking him for any specifics. why now so interested in them? be smart like a fox Mr. Trump, keep your specifics to your chest till some of the others drop, leaving few to try and pick them apart. please Mr. Cruz for VP if you make it that far.
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