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Trump looking at poster before suggesting shining light and injecting bleach as coronavirus cures Politics

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u/jaylek 15d ago

In Trumps head... staring at that poster, he was sure he just solved Covid.

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u/HailToTheKingslayer 15d ago

"It can't be that easy....but maybe it is."

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u/SilvertailHarrier 15d ago

I think maybe he thinks he's so smart compared to everyone else that they just haven't been able to think of that yet? Like to me that's the only thing that could explain him thinking that. Or maybe senility.

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u/IWasSayingBoourner 15d ago

People who don't know they're stupid often make simple logical connections and assume no one else has been able to do the same. Like a child when they realize that food turns to poop. Only in this case it was a single man turning an entire country into shit.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey 15d ago

AKA the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Trump was the Dunning-Kruger President (coined 4 years ago)

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u/krashundburn 15d ago

he's so smart compared to everyone else that they just haven't been able to think of that yet?

And he came up with "priming the pump" all by his stable genius self, too.

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u/fchowd0311 15d ago

He's the poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://youtu.be/5GqJna9hpTE

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u/pickleric-137 15d ago

Which is funny because people that are proven to be smart tend to think that everyone knows as much as they do in various surveys taken. https://youtu.be/pOLmD_WVY-E

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u/jaylek 10d ago

It's off the charts delusional narcissism.

I know my caption was meant to sound funny but I believe it's actually true.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey 15d ago

hey hey it can be both

it's both

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u/codevii 15d ago

"It's so crazy, it might just work!"

You're a genius!

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u/Intri-cat 15d ago

"No one tried the front door?"

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u/Ok-Reporter-4600 15d ago

Chemotherapy

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u/twinchell 15d ago

Some say it's the easiest.....

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u/JohnStamosAsABear 15d ago

This reads like a Far Side caption.

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u/thesehalcyondays 15d ago

I've never put it together that Trump is just a Big Beefy Far Side character

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u/Farren246 15d ago

The image looks like one too.

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u/jaylek 10d ago

That's about what I was shooting for..lol

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u/deathrider012 15d ago

(Ron Howard narrating) : He hadn't.

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u/TheJustBleedGod 15d ago

He probably thought this was the final epic moment of a real life movie. His suggestion is something no one had thought of before. All people had to do is go outside and let some sun into their mouth and he had solved everything. There would be parades on the streets

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u/KeyRageAlert 15d ago

So genius! Much stable!

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u/ronton 15d ago

It’s like when I was a kid learning that we don’t know why the dinosaurs died. Then I learned about the ice age. And I was like “you idiot scientists, clearly it got too cold for them because they’re cold blooded!”

Turns out, I did not outsmart the scientific community.

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u/dogfish83 15d ago

It’s so difficult to determine which actions or part of his actions are calculated and which actions or part are pure stupidity. Like how he can work a crowd of idiots or yes men but then there’s stuff like this

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u/DrDerpberg 15d ago

You really need to think everybody but you is a real idiot to think the cure to all this was just in their face the entire time but they never put it together. Like nevermind thinking this would work, the especially dumb part is thinking it would work but nobody but you ever thought of it.

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u/Chazzwuzza 15d ago

4d chess

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u/Avondubs 15d ago

In the mind of someone with npd they are always right and always have the answer for everything. It's a sickness really.... a mental disability.

Possibly the worst type of person you could ever put in charge of a democracy, because its inevitable they would try to become autonomous.

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u/ezee_chief 15d ago

The same guy who suggested nuking hurricanes

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u/Abs0lutE__zer0_ 15d ago

Then when the world laughed at him he said he was just joking.

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u/Kingkern 15d ago

To be fair, he just looked at the pictures and formed his theory. There’s the picture of the sun for his ultraviolet light theory and the spray bottle of bleach to disinfect the body with.

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u/ZachMN 15d ago

I wonder how many times he asked his cabinet how he could “make a deal” to eliminate COVID.

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u/JJuanJalapeno 15d ago

In Trump's head... the infinite amount vacuum of the universe.

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u/REM-DM17 15d ago

Stick Ron Howard’s voice on that and you’ve got an Arrested Development skit

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u/CreauxTeeRhobat 15d ago

I had so many classmates like this in college. The professor would throw up some random example of a real world problem that was currently unsolved and THAT kid would invariably come in and say something astronomically stupid thinking he just figured out how to some world hunger out some shit like that.