I don't understand how anyone could think trump is smart

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Just can't give credit to somebody being smart. Well is it dumb to have people run your business?
no, not necesarily. There are dumb people who have others run their businesses, there are smart people who do it. Delegating on it's own is not a sign of intelligence. My original point is that he didn't succeed because he is smart. He succeeded due to nepotism, his rich daddy's money, luck and other people (much smarter than him) doing the hard work for him. 

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On Fox News in 2023, Bret Baier said to Trump, "Your former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said he's not supporting you."
"You mentioned National Security Advisor John Bolton. He's not supporting you, either. You mentioned Attorney General Bill Barr. Says you shouldn't be president again. Calls you 'the consummate narcissist' and 'troubled man.' You recently called Barr a 'gutless pig.'
"Your second defense secretary is not supporting you. Called you irresponsible. This week, you called your White House chief of staff John Kelly 'weak and ineffective' and 'born with a very small brain.' You called your acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney a 'born loser.' You called your first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, 'dumb as a rock,' and your first defense secretary, James Mattis, 'the world's most overrated general.' You called your White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany 'milquetoast.'

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He hires the best people
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RFK is about to join Maga.
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RFK is about to join Maga.
The nuts joining the nuts

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"Retards talk about people

Normies talk about events

Based mega Chad's talk about ideals"

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Loser
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He has more money than you and all your family members combined. 

So, he is smarter than you. 
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He has more money than you and all your family members combined. 
So, he is smarter than you. 
I have way more money than you. So…
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He has more money than you and all your family members combined. 

So, he is smarter than you. 
Wow, I didn't realize there was an intelligence requirement on receiving an inheritance.
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So you can be dumb being a successful business person. So much for all these people paying money to go to school.

I can just tell them to save their money because a lack of intelligence is enough.

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So you can be dumb being a successful business person. So much for all these people paying money to go to school.
Just because one moron became a billionaire doesn't mean that every billionaire is a moron, nor does it mean that intelligence doesn't matter. That's common sense.

What's notable about the Trump example is setting aside that he inherited $400 million from his dad and his net worth would likely have been bigger if he just trough it in the stock market... Is that as far as I can tell the man hasn't offered anything to society. All of his business ventures where he was actually selling a product (Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump university) have failed. Even his casinos failed. The only thing the man has ever been good at is coning people into thinking he was some successful business genius. When we think of the Trump Org. what is it that he's selling? Himself? That's it?

The man is literally a poor man's version of a rich man.
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Maybe that's why the poor like him. You can be a fuckup and still do OK.
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In 2022, when Forbes locked in its estimates for its annual list America’s richest people, Trump’s net worth stood at an estimated $2.5 billion, which, for the first time in 25 years, left him short of the cutoff for The Forbes 400. If Trump had instead lived a simple life and invested in the S&P 500 for decades, he would have been worth an estimated $3 billion, enough to rank No. 377. Instead, he had decided to go his own way, providing him with years as a high-stakes businessman, decades as a famous name and one term as the president of the United States—but eventually costing him hundreds of millions.
Remember that Trump's professor said Trump was the dumbest student he ever had.
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Maybe that's why the poor like him. You can be a fuckup and still do OK.
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Isn't your Trump University degree worthless now?
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Many degrees from any university are worthless.

There are several studies and reports that cite high percentages of college graduates working in jobs that do not necessarily require a degree. Here are a few notable examples:

  1. **Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (2019)
    • Statistic: According to a report by Georgetown University, approximately 47% of college graduates are employed in jobs that do not require a degree.
    • Source: Georgetown CEW Report
  2. **Economic Policy Institute (2020)
    • Statistic: The Economic Policy Institute reports that around 43% of recent college graduates are working in jobs that do not typically require a degree.
    • Source: Economic Policy Institute Report
  3. **Pew Research Center (2014)
    • Statistic: Pew Research Center found that about 46% of college graduates were employed in jobs that did not require a college degree.
    • Source: Pew Research Report
  4. **The Hamilton Project (2016)
    • Statistic: A study by The Hamilton Project reported that approximately 40% of college graduates work in jobs that do not require a degree.
    • Source: The Hamilton Project Report
  5. **U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2020)
    • Statistic: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data has indicated that around 41% of college graduates were in jobs that did not require a degree.
    • Source: BLS Data
These studies highlight the broader issue of the alignment between higher education and job market requirements, indicating that a significant proportion of college graduates will find themselves in positions where a degree was not a necessity and that they wasted their time and money on a scam.


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Maybe that's why the poor like him. You can be a fuckup and still do OK.
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Maybe that's why the poor like him. You can be a fuckup and still do OK.
What does the fact that fuck ups can still be ok have to do with Trump?
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Hey if it takes being stupid to have a lot money, maintaining it ,I've been going the wrong direction seeking education .
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Hey if it takes being stupid to have a lot money, maintaining it ,I've been going the wrong direction seeking education .
No one claimed or insinuated that his stupidity made him rich.
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Oh ok. I thought somebody said he was stupid. You can't be stupid making all that money.
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@Mall
They did say he was stupid. Why is this so difficult for you?

Correlation =/= causation. The fact that someone can be stupid and still make a ton of money does not mean that making a ton of money is a result of being stupid. Do you understand that?
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Ok so that person was in error then.