There is a bunch of overlooked idiocy in Trump's NYT interview

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So, it was tremendous media. And we took a picture of everybody, the wives and the leaders, and then the leaders, and, you know, numerous pictures outside on the river. Then everybody walked in to see the opera. Then the opera ended.
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They listened to Beethoven's 9th symphony. That is not an opera.

Well, Napoleon finished a little bit bad. But I asked that. So I asked the president, so what about Napoleon? He said: “No, no, no. What he did was incredible. He designed Paris.” [garbled] The street grid, the way they work, you know, the spokes. He did so many things even beyond. And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death. How many times has Russia been saved by the weather? [garbled]

[crosstalk/unintelligible]
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Napoleon I. was the emperor. He never designed Paris. That happened under Napoleon III, his heir, who also didn't design Paris. He ordered the re-design. The director of that was Georges-Eugene Haussmann. Oh yeah and the war in Russia went on 6 months, not one night. And the extracurricular activities are just nonsense.

TRUMP: We had dinner at the Eiffel Tower, and the bottom of the Eiffel Tower looked like they could have never had a bigger celebration ever in the history of the Eiffel Tower. I mean, there were thousands and thousands of people, ’cause they heard we were having dinner.

[crosstalk/garbled]
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They ate there the evening before the National Day. Take a wild guess why many people would be in the city.



NYT pointed out some other things:

He said news about Russia ‘wasn’t hot’ when his son met with a Russian lawyer in June 2016.

Mr. Trump has a point that the conversation around Russia did not center on potential connections between his campaign and the Kremlin, but discussion of Mr. Trump’s ties to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, and Moscow preceded Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting.

Mr. Trump routinely suggested improving relations with Russia during the Republican primary and earned praise from Mr. Putin in December 2015, prompting stories from many news outlets and criticism from political opponents and foreign policy experts.
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He incorrectly recounted the history of the F.B.I. and falsely said its director ‘really reports directly to the president of the United States.’

Mr. Trump said that the F.B.I. started reporting to the Justice Department “out of courtesy” after President Richard M. Nixon, but that “there was nothing official, there was nothing from Congress” to cement that relationship.

The F.B.I. was founded in 1908 by Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to conduct investigations for the Justice Department, according to the bureau’s website, and Congress expanded its jurisdiction through legislation in the next decade. It officially became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.

The director “has answered directly to the attorney general since the 1920s,” according to the F.B.I. website, and the Justice Department has guidelines instructing the bureau to communicate with the White House with the approval of the attorney general or other top officials at the Justice Department. Although the director J. Edgar Hoover had close, arguably unethical relationships with six presidents, his successors have tried to distance themselves from the president, according to Douglas M. Charles, a history professor at Pennsylvania State University.
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More here

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-factcheck.html

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The breadth and depth of his idiocy and complete lack of knowledge or awareness truly knows no bounds.

It's like those moments in a job interview where you get thrown a question you can't handle, rattle off some bullshit and a minute later have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.

But its like this. every. time. he. speaks.

If he just shut up. Simply just shut up. He would be 1,000 times more successful.
 
What strikes me is the level of general knowledge, education and basic understanding of the world. For a while I believed he could be just pretending for his base, but no, he is a full-grown bubble person who has been surrounded by sycophants all his life.
 
There's also the part where Trump seems to think the letter Comey sent to the FBI staff announcing his firing and wishing them well was a personal letter to Trump himself. And questions why Comey would say "the president has a right to fire me" in such a letter.

That part made me cringe with embarrassment.
 
Lautaro said:
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And then, went to France the following week, because it was the 100th year. [inaudible] The Paris Accord — I wasn’t going to get along with France for a little while, because people forget, because it is a very unfair agreement to us. China doesn’t get [garbled] until 2030. Russia goes back to 1994 as a standard — a much, much lower standard. India has things that are [garbled]. I want to do the same thing as everyone else. We can’t do that? We can’t do that? That’s O.K. Let me get out. Frankly, the people that like me, love that I got out.
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I think he knows he's bullshitting about the FBI. He's sowing the seeds of having an FBI director at his beck and call and Comey's refusal to swear loyalty as the real crime.

His dumb supporters will buy it.
 
Oersted said:
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I was gonna say you make a great Trump impression, even though a bit too dumbed down/nonsensical... but holy shit, that is an actual fucking quote...
Every time I think he won't be able to surprise me anymore, he one-ups himself.

On topic: I actually laughed my ass of in the car the other day, when the biggest french radio talked about this interview in the news, and proceeded to debunk and correct everything talking about France. MSM (at least in France) is usally pretty respectrfull, but they went out of their way to really underline how dumlb his claims were.
 
So, it was tremendous media. And we took a picture of everybody, the wives and the leaders, and then the leaders, and, you know, numerous pictures outside on the river. Then everybody walked in to see the opera. Then the opera ended.
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My 4 year old niece is more articulate, and I say this in complete seriousness.
 
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