"My great and unmatched wisdom..."

Evangelicalhumanist said:

Well now we know. We have it from the horse's mouth, as they say. Nobody, anywhere, is as wise as is the Donald. Read his tweet, from 8:38 this morning:

"As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over..."

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Evangelicalhumanist said:

Well now we know. We have it from the horse's mouth, as they say. Nobody, anywhere, is as wise as is the Donald. Read his tweet, from 8:38 this morning:

"As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over..."

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Evangelicalhumanist said:

I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!).

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dianaiad said:

Y'know, had anybody ELSE said this, everybody (well, the liberals, anyway) would have known that he was engaging in verbal irony. I would have known that it was verbal irony even if Nancy Pelosi had said it, or indeed, anybody on the left.

But...well....

Liberals only recognize verbal irony when they engage in it, or can excuse one of their own because of it. It is astounding that anybody at all took that statement as anything BUT verbal irony.

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Nakosis said:

I thought maybe he is engaging in a bit of self-mockery, but can't read minds. It's something I might do, but I'm not Trump.

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Sunstone said:

Donald's "great and unmatched wisdom"? His great and unmatched wisdom? How arrogant of him! How absolutely arrogant! He is totally, arrogantly, ignoring MY great and unmatched wisdom!

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Shadow Wolf said:

It's stuff like that is why he needs a psych eval, because it appears his grasp on reality is slipping. He get's in trouble asking Ukraine to investigate Biden, and then asks China to right after that. And now he's claiming to have obliterated Turkey's economy, which is clearly something he's never done, and it's on top of an extremely grandiose and blatantly delusional thing to think about oneself.

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Nowhere Man said:

Well Trump is well known to say stuff off the fly like that.

What he does is more important than what he says as far as I'm concerned.

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Wild Fox said:

Did he ever have any grasp of reality? What I like is his amazing answers where he keeps repeating the same words over and over and sounding like a Saturday Night routine only funnier if it wasn't so scary.

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dianaiad said:

Y'know, had anybody ELSE said this, everybody (well, the liberals, anyway) would have known that he was engaging in verbal irony. I would have known that it was verbal irony even if Nancy Pelosi had said it, or indeed, anybody on the left.

But...well....

Liberals only recognize verbal irony when they engage in it, or can excuse one of their own because of it. It is astounding that anybody at all took that statement as anything BUT verbal irony.

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Shadow Wolf said:

And now he's claiming to have obliterated Turkey's economy, which is clearly something he's never done, and it's on top of an extremely grandiose and blatantly delusional thing to think about oneself.

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Augustus said:

While hyperbole, this does actually relate to US policy re: tariffs on economic restrictions on Turkey that (perhaps) helped contribute to currency/debt crisis 2018.

It's obviously just a response to criticisms for abandoning US' Kurdish partners to Turkey and isn't unreasonable on its own.

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Debater Slayer said:

I'm of the opinion that being a genuine Trump supporter at this juncture indicates deep irrationality, ignorance, bigotry, or moral bankruptcy--and often a combination of more than one of these factors. Consequently, I don't believe that this flagrantly narcissistic tweet will do much in the grand scheme of things to dissuade many current Trump supporters from endorsing him.

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