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Which is actually quite the honest statement about what Trump believes. He 100% meant it. It wasn't a gaffe. Donald Trump defines how smart someone is by how much they've fucked over other people to make themselves rich and powerful. That's genuinely what he believes. And not coincidentally, the epitome of what Donald Trump defines as being smart is Donald Trump himself.
If Dr. Robert Hare were to sit down with Trump and spend some time with him, he'd see unbelievable amounts of narcissism, vanity, glibness, delusions of grandeur, and someone utterly lacking in empathy and emotional development - in short, many of the exact traits that define psychopathic/sociopathic behavior (or Antisocial Personality Disorder). Not surprisingly, this same type of personality - and the resulting set of beliefs and behaviors - has a higher than average prevalence within the upper echelons of the corporate/big business world and among super-wealthy people in general. Trump is just extremely open and boorish about it.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)"Everybody pays taxes !!!!!!"
It's a struggle to pay the taxes, and when I see a bastard boast how smart he is for not paying any, it pisses me.
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Trump was Leona Helmsley stupid to say that. Leona never recovered from saying only little people pay taxes and Trump may never recover from saying he's so smart he figures out how to not pay taxes.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)She said that only little people pay taxes.
LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)maturity and empathy than drumpf. That's about the age that I believe drumpf is, 10.
Dorian Gray
(13,491 posts)Everyone should withhold their taxes.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Patiod
(11,816 posts)Most of them say "but Trump IS a good businessman". No, he's not. He's a cheat.