Donald Trump is a stupid person. I've said this before, and I stick by it. I saw a video (can't find it) that was Edward Teller talking about John Von Neumann, who might have been the smartest person to ever live. Teller said that what made Von Neumann so smart was that he loved to think because he was good at it, but he became even better at it, precisely because he loved to do it.
Trump doesn't like to think.
What's more, his feeble brain has been cooked by 70 years of mainlining bad television like a junkie shooting up heroin in 1970s Times Square, a period that Trump himself seems stuck in.
We have seen two instances of his TV presidency, his Pretendency, this week. The farcical, but still dangerous, military takeover of DC and his flop of a summit with Vladimir Putin.
The DC thing is pure fascist theater. It's ridiculous and most of the law enforcement and military folks know that. It's not actually venturing into high crime areas, but rather patrolling the wealthier streets. It's part ridiculous theater and part authoritarian cowing of the DC class. They aren't patrolling Anacostia Flats, they're patrolling K Street.
Similarly, the summit was bullshit, because it was always going to be bullshit, because Trump can't be bothered with learning what he needs to learn to manage a guy like Putin. Instead, it creates optics - most of which favor Putin - as Trump vainly and in vain seeks the Nobel Peace Prize.
In other words, the main news stories of the week are Trump pretending to be strong and capable on TV, when anyone paying attention knows it's a colossal joke - just not a funny one.
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