{"id":32177,"date":"2016-07-28T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32177"},"modified":"2016-09-20T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:28:42","slug":"8-reasons-donald-trump-is-a-huge-hypocrite-for-calling-obama-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32177","title":{"rendered":"8 Reasons Donald Trump Is A HUGE Hypocrite For Calling Obama ‘Ignorant’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the same day that President Obama delivered one of the most powerful and well received convention speeches since a younger Obama spoke at a convention in 2004, Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to steal the news cycle from the Democrats’ festivities in Philadelphia. And it wasn’t just his dangerous solicitation of hostile foreign nations to commit cyber-crimes against America<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

In the same press conference where Trump invited Russia to illegally interfere in U.S. politics by hacking his political opponent, he had the audacity to malign Obama as “the most ignorant president in our history.”<\/em> Never mind that Obama graduated from Columbia University before getting his law degree from Harvard (magna cum laude), where he was editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, went on to teach constitutional law, got elected to the Senate, and became the President of the friggin’ United States.<\/p>\n

What really makes Trump’s typically childish insult so absurd is that he himself has repeatedly demonstrated an affinity for idiocy that is unmatched in modern times. This may explain why he said in February that he “loves the poorly educated.”<\/em> And while it’s tempting to smugly imply that they would be the only ones who would buy into his vacuous campaign, that would be unfair. After all, “poorly educated”<\/em> doesn’t mean stupid.<\/p>\n

What follows are just a few examples of the embarrassingly daft comments that have discharged from The Donald’s prodigious dispensary of dimwitticisms(™) in just the past few weeks on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

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  1. Trump was asked<\/a><\/strong> in a debate about his priorities with regard to America’s “Nuclear Triad”<\/em> And his answer revealed that he had no idea what it is.<\/li>\n
  2. Prior to Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Trump couldn’t answer<\/a><\/strong> a question about Brexit until the interviewer gave him an explanation.<\/li>\n
  3. When asked whether he would defend<\/a><\/strong> Article One of the Constitution, Trump responded that he’d defend all the articles up to the twelfth. But there are only seven articles in the Constitution.<\/li>\n
  4. Attempting to criticize<\/a><\/strong> Democratic VP candidate Tim Kaine, Trump said that he “did a terrible job in New Jersey.”<\/em> The only problem is that Kaine is the former governor, and current senator, from Virginia.<\/li>\n
  5. Trump was so upset that the man who shot Ronald Reagan was being released from the custody of a mental institution that he complained<\/a><\/strong> that “David Hinckley should not have been freed.”<\/em> Hinckley’s first name is “John.”<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. After being pummeled for not repudiating white supremacist David Duke, Trump asserted<\/a><\/strong> that he “didn’t know anything”<\/em> about him. Which was not only an admission of ignorance, it was a lie.<\/li>\n
  7. Pretending to be a devout Christian, Trump bungled the quotation<\/a><\/strong> he sought to recite from the bible in a way that brought laughter from a Christian university audience.<\/li>\n
  8. Trump earned one of his many “Pants-On-Fire”<\/em> lie designations from PolitiFact when he claimed<\/a><\/strong> that the Trans-Pacific Partnership “was designed for China”<\/em> to “totally take advantage of everyone.”<\/em> Except that China is not a part of the TPP.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To be sure, there are many other incidences of Trump’s flagrant ignorance, but these few paint a sorrowful picture of a willful aversion to the sort of knowledge and incentive to learn that is required of a national leader (or a CPA, or a pet groomer, or any citizen).<\/p>\n

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    How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
    \n    Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
    \nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    And yet Trump regards himself as the foremost authority on – well, everything. When MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski asked him who he consults with<\/a><\/strong> he responded “I\u2019m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I\u2019ve said a lot of things.”<\/em> That’s when he isn’t consulting his other primary source of information<\/a><\/strong> that he identified when he said “All I know is what’s on the internet.”<\/em> And if that doesn’t send shivers down the spine of America’s voters, they better see a neurologist stat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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