The Truth

A few quick thoughts about the menace to America, Donald J. Trump.

Whatever bad is said of him — and most of it he has richly earned — I’ll give him this: he is not stupid. But what he is is a person who is intellectually lazy, lacks intelligence, is a poor businessman, and suffers a debilitating egotism.

Yes, of course he has a degree from he Wharton School of Business, but if you think a college degree is indicative of intelligence, please allow me to introduce you to some of my Ph.D friends. No, Donald Trump lacks intelligence because he lacks curiosity, and he lacks that because he is intellectually lazy, and he’s lazy because his egotism tells him he is all he needs.

It is a unforgiving cycle of ineptitude made worse by Trump’s overt racism and sexism and his facility at merging lies with altered truths.

And no, it doesn’t make Trump the worst person on the planet — there are plenty of others in line ahead of him — but as a potential President of the United States, it places him in a unique role to inflict enormous damage to hundreds of millions of people. That’s scary.

Just think about it.