Stupid Is As Stupid Does

 “I’m putting out an order. I’m going to sign an executive order. When we build aircraft carriers, it’s steam for the catapults, and it’s hydraulic for the elevators." This was just part of the meandering babble the Orange Menace spewed at U.S. Naval personnel aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier, George Washington this past week. 

It would be simple enough to jump on the "cognitive decline" bandwagon and say that this seventy-nine year old bloated husk of a man was having trouble keeping his thoughts in order. Perhaps his little trolley has jumped the track, but it seems quite likely that he was never that bright in the first place. On a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, he started babbling about steam. “The problem [with electric] is when it breaks, you have to send up to MIT to get the most brilliant people in the world. Fly them out—it’s ridiculous. The steam—they said they can fix it with a hammer and blowtorch, and it works just as well, if not better, and I love the sight of that beautiful steam pouring off that deck. With the electric, you don’t have that.” 

And that whole magnet problem he continues to have. Back in January he was babbling on about how unreliable they are. “Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. Why didn’t they use John Deere? Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere.” For the record, John Deere does use magnets as promotional tools as well as hitches for their equipment. 

The United States Navy uses nuclear power and magnets. We are one quarter of the way through the twenty-first century. If you haven't been able to keep up with the advancements made beyond the smartphone, you should keep your mouth shut when grownups are talking. If it were up to me, I wouldn't let the convicted felon have access to the TV remote because it's a near certainty that he would find a way to make it stop working. 

Not because of some perceived "decline." He was never that bright to start with. He bankrupted his own casinos. He can't pronounce acetaminophen. 

He's stupid. He deserves bad things to happen to him because of it. Because smart people learn to ask for help when they don't know something. 

He doesn't know how magnets work. 

He hasn't read the Constitution. 

He hasn't read anything. 

He is stupid. And you can't fix that.