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Top 5 Signs Donald Trump Might Be an Effing Moron
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
06 October 17
Carol E. Lee at NBC reported Wednesday that last summer Rex Tillerson, the
secretary of state, called Trump a "f*cking moron." The remark came after a
number of incidents in which Trump had contradicted Tillerson on policy, and
directly after Trump made salacious remarks to a crowd of boy scouts.
Tillerson at one point had led the Boy Scouts.
The justice of Tillerson's remark is obvious. Here are some examples:
1. Trump joined with Saudi Arabia in beating up on little Qatar, calling the
small Gulf monarchy "terrorists." Qatar hosts the US Air Force base al-Udeid
and helped capture Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, proving itself a key ally in
fighting extremism. For Saudi Arabia to accuse Qatar of fostering extremism
is a bit rich, but Trump joined in.
2. The Iran nuclear deal is one of the more successful such negotiations in
modern history and a model for how the UN Security Council could curb
nuclear proliferation. Trump is determined to undermine the deal, which
would reinforce the suspicions and militancy of countries such as North
Korea, making it even more difficult to handle.
3. Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accords on the grounds that they
are too constricting and detract from US sovereignty. But the accords allow
each nation to set its own priorities! Even Tillerson, who when it comes to
climate change, is Satan incarnate, wanted to stay in Paris (I presume
because it could be used as a fig leaf for inaction on carbon dioxide
emissions).
4. Trump went to Puerto Rico on Tuesday and made the presidency a
laughingstock. He maintained that Katrina had been a much more devastating
storm than Irma and that because they weren't actually dead the Puerto
Ricans weren't suffering as much. We don't know the death toll in Puerto
Rico because 95 percent of the island doesn't have electricity and not all
the dead have been found by institutions of the commonwealth. Moreover,
catastrophic hurricanes are not a race where one state wins and another
loses. Then Trump gave out supplies at a church, including flashlights, but
he remarked to recipients that they didn't need flashlights any more. They
do. He made hurricane relief all about himself instead of about the victims.
It was so bizarre a performance that "moron" doesn't begin to cover it.
5. Trump gave away US foreign policy to Exxon Mobil, the big oil company,
which had been led by Mr. Tillerson up until his move to the State
Department. The US should be making a frantic and concerted effort to get
off fossil fuels, not coddling Big Oil interests. Appointing Tillerson to
run the State Department, and letting him gut it in favor of lucrative oil
deals for his former corporation is just about the most moronic thing you
could imagine.
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