A Very Stable Genius reveals a US president ignorant of geography who struggled to read constitution

Summary

A new book, A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reveals Donald Trump’s ignorance on key historical and geopolitical issues.

During a 2017 visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, Trump reportedly asked, “What’s this all about?” showing a lack of understanding of Pearl Harbor.

The book also details Trump’s confusion over India’s border with China, his eagerness to meet Vladimir Putin before taking office, and his frustration with anti-bribery laws.

The authors claim their findings are based on extensive interviews and documents.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    To be fair, Pearl Harbors significance is vastly overstated. It was just a random fucking air raid like any other. All the stuff that led to it is much more important.

    • Mihies@programming.dev
      36·
      2 days ago

      The random air raid that pushed US to war by narrowly avoiding catastrophic navy loss? Yeah, no biggie.

      Edit: are->air

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yeah sure they totally werent itching for any excuse to go to war and totally wouldnt have done so anyways. We dont live in a butterfly effect world. Just like killing baby Hitler would not have prevented WW2, Pearl Harbor didnt by itself make the US join the war.

        • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          No, it didn’t, but it is still regarded as the inciting incident that brought the US into the war. Stop apologizing for Trump being an idiot.

        • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 days ago

          Even with other reasons to consider war, pearl harbor would have been enough for the US to join by itself. Get this, when another nation declares war on you… You are in a war. Now you can talk about what led to that moment, but that moment was war.

    • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      It was just a random fucking air raid like any other.

      It was abundantly and absolutely not. It was the first raid on the US by Japan that was intended to show the US why they shouldn’t enter the war and spectacularly backfired as it became the rally point for them to enter.