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Sure but a lot of that was me laughing at him.

But still, just as Israeli and Iranian leaders have to claim victory, so does Trump.  He's just super-irritating and infantile in the way he does it.  It triggers people.

I tend to pay almost no attention to what Trump says, it's usually predictable, including all the hyperbole.  Occasionally he may say something relevant and important, but then, if he does he may reverse positions in a week anyway.

The key, for me, is legislation (and appointments and foreign policy).  The bombast is not nearly as important.

I look at NATO countries claiming they will spend 5% GDP on defense, and have to wonder "by when?".  They agreed to 2% years ago and still many are not at that level including Germany which is the main actor in all of this.

Doesn't trigger me, but my mind is strong.

I saw that episode of Real Time on YouTube and I thought that was interesting. 

Assuming that a politician is dumb either because you don't like them, or because you disagree with them, or because they don't sound all that intelligent when they talk is, I think, a dangerous assumption and you are probably wrong. 

Years ago when Bush II was in office I remember there was a little dust-up because some Yale professor who taught both had said that Kerry was smarter than Bush but then somebody found the transcripts and Bush actually got a better grade than Kerry in the guy's class. 

I looked into Bush because he really did sound like, at best, he had below average intelligence.  I'll tell you what I found.  In Bush's very first run for public office he ran against an incumbent Democratic Congressman in a Texas Congressional District that had historically been D but had trended R and *SHOULD* have been "winnable" for a decent Republican candidate.  Bush got smoked.  If you look into the details, the incumbent Democrat had painted Bush as a "coastal elitist Yale boy" completely out of touch with REAL Texans. 

I'm going to tell you and I think that @SFBadger96 will concur that when you get beat on something like that it sticks with you.  You adapt and learn to avoid it and NEVER make that mistake again.  That, at least to me, explained why Bush always sounded so dumb.  I honestly believe that it was a learned thing.  If you'd have met him at Yale he probably sounded like all the other Yale students but after losing an election for sounding too much like a coastal elitist Yale guy, he learned to sound like an average Texan and well, that is what you saw in the WH from 2001-2008.