It seems to just pour out of his mouth. Or, perhaps can't think... or won't think. But the promise is that he will think because thinking naturally comes with the job.
When running for president, the candidates attempt to impress upon the voting public their ability to think about the issues and to make informed decisions. The candidate must offer thinking as an attribute at which they excel. Otherwise, how does one get elected? One can't advertise non-thinking as a reason to receive votes.
But, in fact, Donald Trump actually ran his campaign on a non-thinking platform. He pillaged those thinking individuals who pressed forward with ideas and ridiculed thinking as something evil, something done by arrogant intellectuals who are out of touch with the real world.
It is informative to read Washington Post article "Donald Trump isn’t an intellectual. And he’s very proud of that." by Chris Cillizza.
I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. That I can tell you.”
According to George Will, "It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence...he has instructed us that Andrew Jackson was angry about the Civil War that began 16 years after Jackson’s death.
The United States is rightly worried that a strange and callow leader controls North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. North Korea should reciprocate this worry. Yes, a 70-year-old can be callow if he speaks as sophomorically as Trump did when explaining his solution to Middle Eastern terrorism: “I would bomb the s--- out of them. . . . I’d blow up the pipes, I’d blow up the refineries, I’d blow up every single inch, there would be nothing left.”
Will summarizes nicely, "... the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something."
His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
Reading the transcript of an Oval Office interview with President Donald Trump by AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace demonstrates the 'non-thinking' mind. He exhibits a clear inability to respond to a direct question with a direct answer.
When dedicating brain power to the focus of one's love, there isn't enough time to think about things in real life terms. As Marvin Gaye explains in his song 'Too Busy Thinking About My Baby'
I ain't got time to think about Money
Or what it can buy And I ain't got time to sit down and wonder What make the birdies fly And I don't have time to think about What makes the flowers grow And I've never given it a second thought To where the rivers flow... I ain't got time to discuss the weather And how long it's going to last
It seems Trump spends his time thinking about 'himself'.
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As president, Trump receives lots of press. His lack of thinking ability seems to be is most obvious trait. Richard Cohn describes his mental acumen...
There are many reasons to loathe Trump. His policies are mostly wrong, and even those that are right have been chaotically announced or implemented. He prescribes barroom oaths for an economy that needs thought and creativity. He would let the Earth bake rather than take the most rudimentary of steps to moderate global warming. He alienates allies and friends, embraces enemies and indulges in a noxious moral relativism in which, somehow, Russia and America are on the same level.
... what is so repellent about Trump. He is the winner who was supposed to lose. He is the bully in the fourth grade who never meets his match. He is the liar whose lies somehow don’t matter. He is the braggart who is never humbled. He refutes what Johnny Tremain was told and every child once instructed: “Pride goeth before a fall.” No, with Trump pride goeth before everything.
There are many reasons to loathe Trump. His policies are mostly wrong, and even those that are right have been chaotically announced or implemented. He prescribes barroom oaths for an economy that needs thought and creativity. He would let the Earth bake rather than take the most rudimentary of steps to moderate global warming. He alienates allies and friends, embraces enemies and indulges in a noxious moral relativism in which, somehow, Russia and America are on the same level.
... what is so repellent about Trump. He is the winner who was supposed to lose. He is the bully in the fourth grade who never meets his match. He is the liar whose lies somehow don’t matter. He is the braggart who is never humbled. He refutes what Johnny Tremain was told and every child once instructed: “Pride goeth before a fall.” No, with Trump pride goeth before everything.
The evidence would indicate that when one is devoid of factual information and incapable of serious thinking of the issues, one then lies. Lying takes the place of research, thinking, and drawing conclusions based on the processing of real life information.
Sam Waterston comments extensively on this particular trait... Lying is the ally of faction and, since President Trump’s rise to power, it is the greater danger. Yes, the word is lying — not negotiation, salesmanship, bluster, attention-getting, delusion, deception, braggadocio, exaggeration, bullying, alternative facts, or any other euphemism.
And it’s hard to keep up. Trump has lied about climate change and the character and motives of refugees, about how asylum-seekers have been vetted in the past and how many have been able to enter the United States, about immigrants, and a long list of other matters. As with partisanship, the more lying there is, the worse it is. And Trump’s alternative facts have meant nasty real-world consequences.
As lying comes easily to Trump, it should come first in every report about his administration. Trump doesn’t lie about this and that, and he doesn’t lie sometimes. He is a liar, a person who lies.
And it’s hard to keep up. Trump has lied about climate change and the character and motives of refugees, about how asylum-seekers have been vetted in the past and how many have been able to enter the United States, about immigrants, and a long list of other matters. As with partisanship, the more lying there is, the worse it is. And Trump’s alternative facts have meant nasty real-world consequences.
As lying comes easily to Trump, it should come first in every report about his administration. Trump doesn’t lie about this and that, and he doesn’t lie sometimes. He is a liar, a person who lies.
It’s impossible to overstate what is at stake. “I won,” says Trump truly, following it up with lies about landslides, voter fraud and crowd size. Every American should be alarmed. It ought to be the lead in every article about him and his administration, no matter the subject. Lying at this level is a threat to the Republic.
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