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Trump insults US intelligence agencies.

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Last Tuesday, National intelligence director Dan Coats and other intelligence chiefs presented the Worldwide Threat Assessment report (pdf) to the Senate.

Now Trump rubbishes their work:

President Trump tells US spy chiefs: 'Go back to school'

President Donald Trump has described US intelligence agencies as "naïve" and "wrong" in their assessment of the threat posed by Iran.

"Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!" Mr Trump tweeted.

The testy response comes after a US intelligence report said Iran was not making nuclear weapons. It also said that North Korea remained "unlikely to give up" its weapons stockpiles and production abilities.

National intelligence director Dan Coats and other intelligence chiefs presented the Worldwide Threat Assessment report to the Senate on Tuesday.

Last year, the US pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, triggering widespread criticism from Washington's allies. Mr Trump also launched a diplomatic push to improve relations with North Korea, meeting the country's leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore last June to discuss denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. At the time, Mr Trump claimed this meeting had ended the North Korean nuclear threat.
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Chap wrote:
Now Trump rubbishes their work:

Well, to be fair arent these the guys that ruined Hillary's chance in 2016? How good are they if they can't find/stop Russians on Facebook?
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The most ignorant President in modern times tells the Intelligence community to go 'back to school'. Presumably they will matriculate at Trump University. Meanwhile Border Agents are scouring the desert for duct tape and prayer rugs, because someone saw the movie Sicario and told the President about it.

One of the absolute scariest things about this President is the pride he takes in being ignorant. His ego does not let him admit that he is wrong. He gives himself an A+ as President, and doesn't believe he has made many big mistakes. Donald Trump will never go 'back to school' because he already knows everything, so why bother?
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MeDotOrg wrote:The most ignorant President in modern times tells the Intelligence community to go 'back to school'. Presumably they will matriculate at Trump University. Meanwhile Border Agents are scouring the desert for duct tape and prayer rugs, because someone the movie Sicario and told the President about it.

One of the absolute scariest things about this President is the pride he takes in being ignorant. His ego does not let him admit that he is wrong. He gives himself an A+ as President, and doesn't believe he has made many big mistakes. Donald Trump will never go 'back to school' because he already knows everything, so why bother?

again...the intelligent community let Russians and Facebook ruin 2016 for Hillary.....so maybe Trump has a point?
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subgenius wrote: ...Hillary...

There she is, again, living in your head.
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subgenius wrote:
Chap wrote:
Now Trump rubbishes their work:

Well, to be fair aren't these the guys that ruined Hillary's chance in 2016? How good are they if they can't find/stop Russians on Facebook?


It isn't the FBIs job to stop Russians from interfering in our elections dumb ass. It is the President's job, but only after the FBI does their job of informing him of the threat. If only our President wasn't the direct beneficiary of their help and a demonstrable agent of Russia.
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subgenius wrote:How good are they if they can't find/stop Russians on Facebook?

Excellent point. Hopefully, they will eventually build a sufficient case against the Kremlin Candidate.
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MeDotOrg wrote:The most ignorant President in modern times tells the Intelligence community to go 'back to school'. Presumably they will matriculate at Trump University. Meanwhile Border Agents are scouring the desert for duct tape and prayer rugs, because someone saw the movie Sicario and told the President about it.

One of the absolute scariest things about this President is the pride he takes in being ignorant. His ego does not let him admit that he is wrong. He gives himself an A+ as President, and doesn't believe he has made many big mistakes. Donald Trump will never go 'back to school' because he already knows everything, so why bother?

This only confirms what Trump's college professors have said about him.
'Former Wharton Professor: ‘Trump Was the Dumbest G*ddamn Student I Ever Had’

Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this: “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity, but long before he was considered a political figure. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told the story that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.


See also: https://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/13/trumps-college-professor-confirms-moron-life.html
The same man who once demanded Obama’s college transcripts is an idiot, but what is damning about Trump’s stupidity is that there is no evidence that he cannot learn. Donald Trump is shutting out opportunities to gain knowledge because he thinks he already knows everything.

When the arrogance is added to Trump’s emotional instability, the combination is not just dumb. It represents a danger to the country.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had

https://www.vladtv.com/article/234814/trumps-business-school-professor-says-he-was-dumbest-student-he-ever-had

Donald Trump's UPenn classmates have 'no memory of him,' doubt his claims of being top in class

Here’s What The Wharton School Of Business Really Thinks Of Donald Trump
The GOP presidential candidate loves to name-drop the school. But he’s not good for Wharton’s image.

While obviously ambitious — “I’m going to be the king of New York real estate,” Trump told one professor — he passed through West Philadelphia without leaving a mark. The Boston Globe interviewed a number of his classmates and concluded that Trump “spoke up a lot but rarely shined in class” and “barely participated in campus activities.” He drove a green convertible and used aliases to buy and flip properties in the city.

It’s unclear what Trump took away from his time at Wharton, besides a sense of validation from being included in a group of “the smartest people.” He told the Globe that “one of the things it does is it gives you confidence... When you come out, you feel good about yourself.” (In a speech at last month’s Republican National Convention, his eldest son, Donald Jr., himself a Wharton graduate, said that Trump always “hung out with the guys on construction sites” and “valued their opinions as much, and often more, than the guys from Harvard and Wharton, locked away in offices away from the real work.” The anti-elitist swipe at the school was unexpected, to say the least, since Trump’s constant boasting about his Wharton education is explicitly elitist.)


As noted in the above article, the Wharton School that Trump boasts of having attended, is not at all eager to acknowledge that Trump ever attended it, and it concludes with this observation:
In July, on Medium, Wharton students posted an open letter to Trump, rejecting his bigotry and arguing that a Trump presidency would hurt the country. Since then, more than 3,800 members of the Wharton community have signed the letter, including students, alumni and at least five current professors. (None of the five returned my emails.) “Your insistence on exclusion and scapegoating would be bad for business and bad for the American economy,” the letter reads. “An intolerant America is a less productive, less innovative, and less competitive America.”

The letter is brief, sharp and clear — the most public rebuke of Trump that has emerged from Wharton. Still, it carries a prominent disclaimer, a mark of Wharton’s enduring discomfort with the man who has wrapped himself in the school’s name: “This letter reflects the personal views of its signatories only and is not affiliated with the Wharton School.”
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subgenius wrote:
MeDotOrg wrote:The most ignorant President in modern times tells the Intelligence community to go 'back to school'. Presumably they will matriculate at Trump University. Meanwhile Border Agents are scouring the desert for duct tape and prayer rugs, because someone the movie Sicario and told the President about it.

One of the absolute scariest things about this President is the pride he takes in being ignorant. His ego does not let him admit that he is wrong. He gives himself an A+ as President, and doesn't believe he has made many big mistakes. Donald Trump will never go 'back to school' because he already knows everything, so why bother?

again...the intelligent community let Russians and Facebook ruin 2016 for Hillary.....so maybe Trump has a point?

Man! Your naiveté and obsequiousness towards Trump is almost as embarrassing as it is incredible! I have found even flat-earthers on youtube who seem more rational and better connected to reality than you seem to be! Or, for that matter, than Trump seems to be!
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