{"id":35863,"date":"2017-10-10T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35863"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:41:29","slug":"moron-trump-turns-out-to-be-a-chicken-backs-out-of-iq-challenge-with-sec-tillerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35863","title":{"rendered":"Moron Trump Turns Out to Be a Chicken, Backs Out of IQ Challenge With Sec. Tillerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/tillerson-s-fury-trump-required-intervention-pence-n806451\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News revealed<\/a><\/strong> that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had openly disparaged Donald Trump as a <em>&#8220;f*cking moron.&#8221;<\/em> The surprisingly accurate analysis came during a meeting at the Pentagon in July according to three sources. Tillerson later held an unprecedented press conference to refute the charge that his boss is frighteningly dumb. However, he forgot the actual refutation and never denied that he made the statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-chicken-don.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Chicken\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34408\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1898657706815682\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s notable that there was almost no one defending Trump&#8217;s alleged intelligence following Tillerson&#8217;s honest appraisal. However, Trump himself finally addressed it in an interview with Forbes Magazine, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s fake news, but if he did that, I guess we&#8217;ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would not exactly be an epic contest of wits. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he is woefully deprived in the smarts department. He has the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-talks-like-a-third-grader-121340\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vocabulary of a third grader<\/a><\/strong> and cannot seem to retain or comprehend simple facts. An IQ test would resolve this controversy in the <em>&#8220;reality show&#8221;<\/em> manner that Trump is accustomed to. And it would give Tillerson an opportunity to prove that Trump&#8217;s insult to his intelligence was fake news. Never mind that Trump has previously demeaned Tillerson by stating that his diplomatic efforts were a <em>&#8220;waste of time.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the big competition has already <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-rex-tillerson-moron-iq-test-243624\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been called off<\/a><\/strong>. Trump&#8217;s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked about the event at the White House press briefing. She advised that the President just <em>&#8220;made a joke, nothing more than that.&#8221;<\/em> He never intended to take on Tillerson. Which is a shame because the Mensa Institute had offered to sponsor the event.<\/p>\n<p>Had this match gone on it would have been another fiasco for Trump. He has recently been squabbling with the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker. Corker expressed concern that Trump&#8217;s White House was on the verge of chaos. Trump replied with a flurry of furious tweets. But Corker had the last word when he tweeted back saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBobCorker\/status\/917045348820049920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Corker elaborated in a statement to the New York Times. He said that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/corker-says-trump-could-set-u-s-on-path-to-world-war-iii\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s behavior<\/a><\/strong> <em>&#8220;concerned&#8221;<\/em> him and that he feared the President was putting the nation <em>&#8220;on the path to World War III.&#8221;<\/em> He also made note of Trump&#8217;s tendency to lie, saying <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why the president tweets out things that are not true.&#8221;<\/em> And he implied that he was not alone in harboring these concerns. <em>&#8220;I know for a fact,&#8221;<\/em> Corker said, <em>&#8220;that every single day at the White House, it&#8217;s a situation of trying to contain him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These comments should worry every American. If a conservative Republican is this nervous about a president from his own party, there is likely a fire raging under that smoke. It&#8217;s time for Corker and his GOP colleagues to stop complaining about the imminent danger Trump represents and do something about it. They don&#8217;t have to wait for special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s report to begin impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week NBC News revealed that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had openly disparaged Donald Trump as a &#8220;f*cking moron.&#8221; The surprisingly accurate analysis came during a meeting at the Pentagon in July according to three sources. Tillerson later held an unprecedented press conference to refute the charge that his boss is frighteningly dumb. 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