{"id":66223,"date":"2025-05-11T13:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66223"},"modified":"2026-01-10T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:10:12","slug":"what-trump-admits-he-doesnt-know-13-examples-of-his-failing-mental-acuity-or-blatant-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66223","title":{"rendered":"What Trump Admits He Doesn&#8217;t Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity &#8211; or Blatant Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump often brags about his allegedly incomparable intellect. He has claimed that he knows more about medicine than doctors; more about the military than generals; more about economics than economists. The list of subjects that he says he knows more about than anyone else is almost as long as the list of his documented lies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=What Trump Admits He Doesn't Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity - or Blatant Lying%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66223\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=What Trump Admits He Doesn't Know: 13 Examples of His Failing Mental Acuity - or Blatant Lying%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66223\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fear-wtf.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump WTF\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43593\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump uses his gasbag boasts to favorably compare himself to President Biden, who he has relentlessly demeaned as incompetent and even unaware of what he&#8217;s doing or where he is. Meanwhile, Trump celebrates the results of simple cognitive exams as evidence that he&#8217;s a <em>&#8220;stable genius.&#8221;<\/em> And he is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66129\" target=\"_blank\">oblivious to the contempt in which he is held by most Americans<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65952\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is Already Downplaying Trump\u2019s Unreleased Health Report Because Trump\u2026Looks Great?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So while Trump frequently insists that he is the answer to all of mankind&#8217;s woes, and that only he can fix their problems, the Washington Post has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/10\/trump-second-term-unaware\/\" target=\"_blank\">compiled some examples<\/a><\/strong> of Trump exhibiting his ineptitude and desperation to evade responsibility for anything. The article began by noting that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the major themes of President Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign was the idea that Joe Biden had no idea what was happening around him. [&#8230;] But less than four months after taking over from Biden, it\u2019s Trump who, in his own telling, is often unaware of major events surrounding him and directly involving his administration.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What follows is a summary of the Post&#8217;s research of recent Trump attempts to separate himself from his multitude of failures.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On nominating Casey Means, a conspiracy crackpot with no medical license, as Surgeon General: <strong><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t know her, I listened to the recommendation of Bobby [Kennedy Jr].&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On GOP Sen. Thom Tillis coming out against Ed Martin, the now discarded Trump nominee for U.S. attorney for D.C.: <strong><em>&#8220;I didn\u2019t know that.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On firing staffers of a program that provides health care for 9\/11 first responders and survivors: <strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m not aware of anything that may have been brought up recently.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On whether he had been briefed about four U.S. soldiers who died in a training exercise in Lithuania: <strong><em>&#8220;No, I haven&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On the SignalGate scandal involving his top national security officials revealing sensitive data on a commercial chat app: <strong><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t know anything about it.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On his Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordering a halt to military aid shipments to Ukraine: <strong><em>&#8220;Trump was not aware of Hegseth&#8217;s order.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On reported plans to deport migrants to Libya: <strong><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know; you\u2019ll have to ask Homeland Security.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On the arrest and detention of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk: <strong><em>&#8220;I\u2019m not aware of the particular event.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On whether he could get Kilmar Abrego Garc\u00eda back from El Salvador: <strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don\u2019t want to do this.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On whether he signed the order to deport migrants under the Alien Enemies Act without due process: <strong><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t know when it was signed, because I didn\u2019t sign it. Other people handled it.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> (He did sign it)<\/li>\n<li>On decisions about deportations following a judicial ruling halting them: <strong><em>&#8220;I\u2019d have the Secretary of State handle it, because I\u2019m not really involved in that.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8212; And a few that the Post left out&#8230; &#8212;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On his 145% tariffs on China: <strong><em>&#8220;80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> [Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary].&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>On whether he agrees if citizens and non-citizens are covered by due process: <strong><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m not a lawyer.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66168\" target=\"_blank\">whether he is required to uphold the Constitution<\/a><\/strong>: <strong><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it. Trump in his own words. He repeatedly admits that he has had little to do with any of these critical events that all occurred in the first three months of his reoccupation of the White House. This is the same guy who has criticized Biden, falsely, for using an autopen to sign everything. And this is the same guy who clearly has no idea what he himself is signing in his ludicrous executive order ceremonies that are obviously staged in the reality TV style that he is so comfortable with.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3losndchigs2x\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigudfk3zljj44pj5zc4rw7rvfu3kgpgd3i52rqlmw7pl46imnk5uu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump is an utterly oblivious puppet president. They just put an executive order down in front of him and he signs it.He doesn&#39;t know what it does beyond the brief summary they give him. It could be an order to require all Americans to be vaccinated against the woke virus.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3losndchigs2x?ref_src=embed\">2025-05-10T09:36:50.543Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66192\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Watches MSNBC? Yep! And It\u2019s Driving Him Crazy. 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He has claimed that he knows more about medicine than doctors; more about the military than generals; more about economics than economists. 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