• Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    That’s called being a narcissistic conman, and is not a sign of intelligence, only a sign of lack of empathy and morals.

    The fact he got taken in makes him an idiot.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      Well there were a table full of people saying ‘we know Trump can be slimy so we’ll protect ourselves’ and it wasn’t good enough. So I guess they’re all idiots.
      I think it’s fair to argue that if you know Trump has a reputation for screwing everybody over, the only non-idiotic move is to stay the fuck away from him. So that’s probably fair grounds for calling them idiots.

      That Trump chose to screw everybody over makes him a narcissistic conman without empathy or morals.
      The fact that he COULD do it, even to smart people who were expecting it and thought they’d prepared, is arguably a sign of intelligence.
      That he chooses to use whatever intelligence he has screwing everybody over rather than solving real problems-- that’s back to narcissistic conman without empathy or morals.

      You can be a narcissistic conman without empathy or morals, and still be smart.