Is Trump A "Moron" Or Just An "Obnoxious Racist" ?

(Cartoon image is by Chris Britt at Creators Syndicate.)

Prime Minister Netanyahu likes Donald Trump. But other Israelis are aghast when they look at the narcissistic conman living in the U.S. White House. Consider these remarks by Chemi Shalev in his column in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:

“Stupidity is one of the more easily accessible and widespread explanations for Trump’s behavior. It’s true that Trump has claimed in the past that his IQ is much higher than that of Obama or of comedian John Stewart, but in that case, he’s doing an excellent job of concealing his intelligence, as his visit this week to Puerto Rico showed.”

“(R)ather than trying to cheer up Puerto Ricans, as he did in Texas, or console them, as he would later do in Las Vegas. Trump insulted the island’s residents on their own home turf. He told them they should be grateful they weren’t hit with a ‘real catastrophe’ like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. He didn’t stop complaining about the drain of Puerto Rican recovery on the federal budget, which he didn’t even mention in Texas or Florida. And to cap it all off, Trump was filmed tossing out paper towels to his audience in a scene deemed by one broadcaster as ‘the least presidential ever.’”

“Prejudice and racial stereotypes are such a prominent feature of his personality, they maintain, that he just can’t keep them under lock.”

“He has described himself as ‘the least racist person ever,’ but since he launched his presidential run by describing Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers. Trump has described Puerto Ricans as lazy, Muslims as wannabe terrorists, African-Americans as thugs, Jews as proficient with money and women as inferior sexual objects. It’s only among neo-Nazis, apparently, that Trump has found ‘some fine people.’”

The U.S. president has shot himself in the foot so regularly that it is only natural to assume he may not be the sharpest pencil in the box.” 

“But even if we assume that Trump is far from stupid, and definitely not a ‘moron', most people would agree that both his election and his presidency are an insult to America’s intelligence, as well as the world’s.”