Dumb man says he genius, actually
This has not been an especially good week for the credibility of Donald Trump and his presidency, overall, as Michael Wolff’s incendiary new tell-all, Fire & Fury, poked further holes in the wheezing, dyspeptic gasbag of Trump’s leaking image as an even semi-effective world leader. Wolff’s book—which is already getting pretty hard to find, reportedly, as people everywhere scoop it up for a little political schadenfreude this weekend—paints Trump as an ineffective, cranky bumbler, surrounded by people desperately trying to stop a foggy-headed bull from smashing the china shop 63 million people inexplicably voted him into.
Still, that’s nothing a little damage control and careful political spinning can’t fix, right? In an apparent effort to rectify Wolff’s portrait of him as an erratic, angry, and not especially intelligent man, Trump did what any rational world leader would do in this situation: Hopped on Twitter this morning and loudly, repeatedly, told anybody who would listen that he was a genius. And not just any kind of genius, mind you: A stable genius. (The best kind!)