Latest Presidential Sit-Down Interview (Once Again) Shows Trump’s Cartoonish Understanding of the World Around Him
During an interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday, President Trump offered often incomprehensible answers to questions ranging from climate change to the economy and his opinion of the Fed chair. The two Post reporters who conducted the sit-down described the exchange as a “discordant 20-minute interview”—and that’s putting it politely. The president offered up rambling, corkscrewing answers that often careened into complete and utter incoherence. When comprehensible, Trump’s responses were worrying: He doesn’t believe his administration’s warnings on climate change or the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; he’s mad at the Fed chair he selected, and it goes on and on.
Here’s an actual sentence uttered by the president: “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers.” That’s totally out of context, but still. And another: “They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/trump-interview-washington-post-fed-powell-khashoggi-mbs-putin-g20-ukraine.html
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