Now that Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to between 30% and 35%, an important question needs to be discussed.
Is it considered common knowledge that Trump is the dumbest president in American history?
Big, broad statements about the country’s 250-year history can be seen as overgeneralization, inflammatory or bait-and-switch, but it cannot be denied that the conventional view among many Americans is that Donald Trump is the least intelligent president in the country’s history.
The United States has had many bad presidents, both Republican and Democratic. There is a difference between being a bad president and a president who is mentally incapable of doing his job.
America has had presidents who were workaholics, and those who preferred to go to their ranches to clear the undergrowth and ride horses. America has had presidents who consumed information and ideologues who lacked intellectual curiosity.
There have been all kinds of presidents, but until Donald Trump, none were considered objectively stupid.
The conventional wisdom that Trump is not smart has become so commonplace that even leaders in Congress talk openly about the current president’s lack of intellectual capacity.
At his weekly news conference, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was asked to respond to Trump calling him “low IQ.”
Jeffries responded by challenging Trump to make his own limitations visible.
