‘I’M, LIKE, REALLY SMART... A VERY STABLE GENIUS’
DON’T WORRY, AMERICA!
Don’t sweat, America: Our president is a “very stable genius” who is “like, really smart.” He says so himself. Deploying an over-the-top offense against those who doubt his mental acuity, President Trump lashed out at critics Saturday in a barrage of boastful tweets.
“Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence,” he wrote at 7:19 a.m.
“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” he continued. “Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames.”
“I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star . . . to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius . . . and a very stable genius at that!” he finished at 7:30 a.m.
The shameless self-promotion came after the publication Friday of a book that questions Trump’s fitness for office — and days after Democrats on Capitol Hill met with a psychiatrist who disparaged his mental state.
Trump tweeted from Camp David just before the start of a second day of meetings with GOP leaders and Cabinet members to hash out the party’s 2018 agenda.
Legislators and staffers had a Friday night sleepover at the rustic presidential retreat, screening “The Greatest Showman,” about P.T. Barnum, the Trumpian 19thcentury flimflam man who began the Barnum & Bailey circus.
At a press conference after the Saturday meeting, Trump ex- panded on the tweets when reporters asked about their unusual focus on his intelligence.
“I went to the best colleges, for college,” Trump stated. “I had a situation where I was a very excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars, became one of the top business people, went to television and for 10 years was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard, ran for president one time and won.”
Then he segued into the cause of his Twitter braggadocio — “Fire and Fury,” author Michael Wolff’s book that portrays a clueless Trump and chaotic White House.
“And then I hear this guy that does not know me . . . It’s in his imagination,” Trump said.
He again denied charges that his 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russians.
“Everything I’ve done is 100 percent proper,” Trump said. “That is what I do, is I do things proper.”
He also promised to campaign for his fellow Republicans this election year.
“Hard to believe, my poll numbers have gone way up,” Trump noted — and he added that House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hope Trump will help preserve their majorities in Congress. “They want me to be involved.” After suffering a year of legislative logjams, GOP legislators passed a major tax bill in December — which, for now, seems to have healed acrimony that weeks earlier seemed to put the party on the brink of implosion as the party establishment clashed with its upstart Trumpian wing.
Trump talked up his part in the thawing relations between North and South Korea.
“Without my rhetoric and without my tough stance they would not be talking now,” he said of negotiations that could bring a North Korean team to South Korea’s Winter Olympics next month.