MANY CLOSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THINK HE'S LOSING IT!

….Is this the real Donald J. Trump

 

No one that counts really thinks that Donald Trump is a “genius”.

 

It has become clear that the only individual that is calling the current American president a “genius”, is the president himself.  In fact, he just wrote that due to his lifetime success in business, TV and politics, he would not qualify as being smart, but “as a genius, and a very stable genius at that!”

 

However, Donald Trump has been unenthusiastic about providing any evidence of his so called "genius intelligence".

 

Trump has repeatedly challenged other people to IQ tests, but when someone asks him to prove his own IQ score, he simply replies: “It’s the highest!!” The Washington Post asked the White House whether it would share Trump’s IQ test results, if there are any, but of course, they received no reply.

 

Obviously, there’s no law that a president has to document his intelligence IQ. But if Trump doesn’t do this, he should know that someone might come along and try to measure it for him.

 

It has happened before.

 

In 2006, a psychologist at the University of California at Davis applied a statistical algorithm to a score of presidential biographies, surveys, polls and other historical sources.  This psychologist concluded that the smartest man to have occupied the White House was our sixth president, John Quincy Adams.

 

With an estimated IQ between 165 and 175, Adams was a genius by any common definition of the term. By comparison, most people score about 100. 

 

There are, of course, many asterisks beside Adams’s big number. He never took an intelligence test, which were not invented until the early 1900s, long after Adams’ death. And the definition and meaning of an IQ has evolved even more since then.  But as the psychologist Dean Keith Simonton wrote in his 2006 study, Adams was among eight US presidents declared geniuses in a 1926 study by an early intelligence researcher named Catharine Cox. She had sifted through the biographies of hundreds of famous people and worked out a method to estimate IQs based on childhood and adolescent achievements.

 

It’s easy to see how Adams would have impressed Ms. Cox. As the University of Virginia’s Miller Center writes, he was the son of John Adams, who also was bound for the White House. Young Adams considered himself his family’s protector while his father was helping to plan the Revolutionary War. He crossed the Atlantic at age 10, rode mules from Spain to Paris, and passed the bar exam in the new United States of America at the young age of 23.

Simonton had taken Cox’s IQ estimates for Adams and of other early presidents, and cross-referenced them with biographical information about their modern-day successors. He then used some clever statistics to build an intelligence matrix for all the presidents up to George W. Bush.

 

Here’s how the final scores for the top nine president’s scored:

 

·       1^st: John Quincy Adams

·       2^nd: Thomas Jefferson

·       3^rd: John F. Kennedy

·       4^th: Bill Clinton

·       5^th: Woodrow Wilson

·       6^th: Jimmy Carter

·       7^th: John Adams

·       8^th: Teddy Roosevelt

·       9^th: James Garfield

 

The psychologist claimed that his method was nonpartisan and extremely accurate, and the journal: Political Psychology deemed it robust enough to publish it in 2006

 

Simonton wrote to The Washington Post, “There’s something very striking about the [current] president’s insistence that he is both “very stable and extremely intelligent”. It comes across as very defensive, like he’s discussing aspects of his person about which he feels vulnerable.”

 

Simonton noted that people tried to cram Trump onto the top of his list during the 2016 presidential campaign, ranking him just below Adams.  The memo said that Trump was IQ tested at 156 which is genius and was supposed to reflect on how his life has gone. He was supposedly smart enough to make billions and is now the President and is doing amazing things..

 

But that’s what Trump would call “fake news”.  Snopes the real Fact Checkers traced the memo to an article on a hoax site that claimed to have calculated Trump’s IQ of 156 based on his college acceptance standards. Among a host of “logical missteps and factual inaccuracies,” Snopes wrote, the article didn’t even name Trump’s freshman school correctly.

 

Trump does not appear to have ever specified his IQ in any article. “If he’s actually taken an IQ test, then why not report the results?” Simonton wrote to The Post. “I think we can guess why.”

 

Like Hawking, Trump once seemed dismissive of the concept of IQs. He wrote in his autobiography, “The Art of the Deal”:  “You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight As and has a 170 IQ,” Trump wrote with his co-author in 2009, “and if he doesn’t have the instincts, he’ll never be a successful entrepreneur.”

 

As the movie mogul, Samuel Goldwyn once said:  “Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day,”  which was repeated by Donald J. Trump on January 8, 2013.

 

“Ever since George W. Bush was elected to the presidency, questions have emerged about his general intelligence,” Simonton wrote, noting the president’s well-known tied tongue. Rest assured he said, “Bush is definitely intelligent.”  But not as smart as nearly every other president.  With an estimated IQ between 111 and 139, Bush was fourth-lowest on the list. He ranked just above Warren G. Harding, James Monroe and the much-maligned Ulysses S. Grant, who came in dead last with an IQ no higher than 120.

 

It wasn’t that Bush was necessarily dumber, Simonton explained, but he scored particularly badly on one of his metrics: his total lack of curiosity.  “Despite being the scion of an elite family with worldwide connections, Bush’s hobbies appear limited to not much more than bicycles, running, fishing, and baseball,” the psychologist wrote. “It would seem that the younger Bush does not make the impression of having wide interests or of being especially curious, sophisticated, complicated, and insightful,” he added.

 

As with Trump, whose father had dementia and President Trump has very little interests besides his business, golf, eating fast food and devouring hours of cable TV shows that of course, talk about Donald J. Trump.

 

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