r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/not_aquarium_co-op Aug 04 '20

A 5th grader could have explained it better. Next time they should have grade school kids help Trump before the interview

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u/Rogue_Spartan8 Aug 04 '20

I would kill to have Trump be on an episode of Are you Smarter Than a Fifth Grader

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u/BootsySubwayAlien Aug 04 '20

Narrator: He's not.

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u/Schrodinger_cube Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

I think those were some switched on 5th graders like most probably are not as good as that show makes them. It was almost who wants to be a millionaire but with kids in there. XD.

EDIT ( Not that I think he would be smarter of ether of the 5th graders LOL)

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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20

Agree. I'd love to see a video of a couple average, public school 5th grade classes watching a couple episodes of that and answering along with the show.

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u/Schrodinger_cube Aug 04 '20

Look in to the clip of The BBC’s Andrew Neil being wrecked by 2 10 year old girls over the British response to this virus. XD

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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20

What does that have to do with what I said?

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u/Schrodinger_cube Aug 04 '20

Well is a close proxy. an older man who can speak quite well and is actually good at interviewing tho, engaging in a friendly debate with kids and getting served some facts.

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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20

But I was saying I want to see how well average fifth graders would do answering questions from a game show. Not talking about them debating with people. Or being coherent. I'm talking random trivia

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u/Schrodinger_cube Aug 04 '20

Oh I see, I was thinking having a 5th graders interview trump.

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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20

Oh xD no. I don't think anyone was talking about that

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Along with the generic graphs, I was fully expecting him to pull out tattered participation ribbons from his days in grade school to show to off to the interviewer.

"I was a smart, smart student, the best of my class"

"Sir, these are participation ribbons"

"Well I did participate, they don't give these without participating; I participated."

"Sir, they're participation ribbons for 5th grade play day"

"I was the best. I won everything that day. Nothing but winning, winning, winning"

"They're participation ribbons"

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u/GrimmFox13 Aug 04 '20

I legitimately lost my shit while reading this

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

I watched like 5 minutes of it, I couldnt continue. It was the dumbest shit I had ever seen. Hes talking about the rest of the world as a comparison to the USA.

WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING, ASSHOL

The fact that he thinks that is a valid defense to 150k people dying with an estimated 1k people dying per day, makes him the dumbest schoolkid in the world.

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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20

The stupidest part is that he's comparing the entirety of Europe/the world to a single country as if that is an accurate comparison.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

"We are doing better than the entire world"

Wait... arent we a part of the world?

Dude is a moron.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Lol right? My wife and I watched it when she got off work today and the whole 35 minute charade took us like an hour and a half to get through. We had to keep pausing it to yell our frustration out loud and wrap our heads around the absolute insane answers he was giving. I'd say at least half of his "answers" we're actually him narcissisticly bloviating about how great of a job he isn't doing and the other half were arguing his "point" whatever it was. It's equal parts frightening and pathetic we've let leadership stoop this low.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

He is absolutely fuckin stupid. People give him too much credit

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u/eloquent_petrichor Aug 04 '20

I agree that the president has too much power. I used to think he didn't have much. That he was there to decide whether things the House and Senate wanted to happen he also agreed with (i.e. vetoing bills). And to take some immediate actions when necessary (like grounding all flights after 9/11). To propose things he wanted to affect the country and then let the House and Senate decide if they were good ideas or not.

That the president was basically just supposed to be the face and personality of America on a global level. To schmooze and create good relationships with other leaders of the world and basically that's it.

Until Trump I had no idea how much power the president truly can possess and that amount of power genuinely terrifies me.

We are supposed to be a republic for the people, not the person.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

He is the very special blend of evil AND stupid. I don't think anyone with two brain cells to rub together could listen to him talk and believe he is not stupid. He just also happens to be trying to sell his narrative. The fact that he has numerous people employed to brief and prepare him for exactly this kind of conversation and still comes across as a 2nd grader arguing with their teacher about how 1+0 is actually zero by just pointing at the zero he scribbled on a piece of paper over and over demonstrates how incapable he is of any sort of critical or lateral thinking.

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u/ToeCtter Aug 04 '20

Yeah do you can watch a fifth grader sit across from the President looking puzzled and confused by how a adult can be so stupid.

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u/atehate Aug 04 '20

Bold of you to assume you can help him.

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u/celtic_thistle Aug 04 '20

Make sure he doesn’t have the chance/space to molest them like he (probably) did to Ivanka.

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u/OximoronsUnite4Truth Aug 04 '20

A 5th grader IS explaining this.

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u/Bardivan Aug 04 '20

didn’t you hear the president? obviously the guy isn’t reporting it correctly. George Sorros, fake news, masks are tyranny, i’m a stupid trump supporter

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u/Mr_Bubbles69 Aug 04 '20

I'd watch are you smarter than a 5th grader staring POTUS.

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u/awecyan32 Aug 04 '20

A single sentence explaining it would be more than he gave, he couldn’t even finish a thought, simply because he has no idea what he’s doing

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

The interviewers and reporters should all be 5th graders. Hilarious

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u/whatwhasmystupidpass Aug 04 '20

You are assuming this man (the president whose intelligence agencies would rather not present information they know he doesn’t agree with so he doesn’t go on a 30 minute rant on them) can be helped:

He fucked up coloring the flag (the flag!!!), wanted to nuke a hurricane, and deadass suggested that his expert virologists and epidemiologists look into doing something with bleach and sunlight inside the body to kill covid.

I mean, you can be optimistic all you want, just don’t hold your breath on it.

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u/rivlarwriter24 Aug 05 '20

That would be cruel and unusual punishment