{"id":135833,"date":"2018-01-12T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135833"},"modified":"2018-01-12T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:58:04","slug":"im-smarter-put-together-cant-admit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/im-smarter-put-together-cant-admit.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m smarter than all of them put together, but they can&#8217;t admit it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Pierce pulls some of the highlights from a three-hour (!) interview Trump rambled with the <i>Wall Street Journal.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I mean, there&#8217;s nothing particularly <i>new<\/i> here &#8212; lies, braggadocio, selective memory, ego, outrageous lack of understanding about the legal system, narcissism, slander, and, of course, rambling, rambling, incoherent sentences. We&#8217;ve heard it all before from Trump, and we will, sadly, continue to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>But at least Pierce provides some nice color commentary.<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109916779695016690032\">Stan Pedzick<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a15073652\/trump-wall-street-journal-interview\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Kf4NORdki_jpCCOnSZyGPAF-xjuNw9wcYAvAigWtzONMLS2ar-lZydVxKrxW4Uj4l7GR3nahV5mm9Yl1WmKv9CuWSI5BpyHdhTxWwN9skzl-cViozCH6cT1IZ68aCF8JY4XvG-0fKR3yXPSkE9w_0dlMBeBP3DE1gj2sXDrIZg99fcrJTVeRie_rqbaCIA=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a15073652\/trump-wall-street-journal-interview\/\">Trump&#8217;s Insane Wall Street Journal Interview Got Lost in Thursday&#8217;s Shithole<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/eLPWaTySsem\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Pierce pulls some of the highlights from a three-hour (!) interview Trump rambled with the Wall Street Journal. I mean, there&#8217;s nothing particularly new here &#8212; lies, braggadocio, selective memory, ego, outrageous lack of understanding about the legal system, narcissism, slander, and, of course, rambling, rambling, incoherent sentences. We&#8217;ve heard it all before from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/im-smarter-put-together-cant-admit.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;I&#8217;m smarter than all of them put together, but they can&#8217;t admit it.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-135833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trum-at-his-desk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134845,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/rambling-point-incoherence-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":135833,"position":0},"title":"The Rambling-to-the-Point-of-Incoherence President","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Sep-17 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd say this zany stream of consciousness was remarkably entertaining, if it weren't coming from the freaking President of the United States. This reads like being trapped with your drunken Uncle Fred in the parlor at Thanksgiving and having to listen to him babble through all his pet peeves while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-25-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/trump-on-the-threat-of-cyber.html","url_meta":{"origin":135833,"position":1},"title":"Trump on the threat of &quot;cyber&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Sep-16 7:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump doesn't need fact checking. He needs cognitive testing. I mean, I can understand rambling a bit during getting a presidential debate, but, yeesh. 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