He's "a really smart person"

So he always says.

We can tell.  Perhaps just in that one sentence alone.

[Bill] Kelley taught marketing management both to undergraduate and graduate students at Wharton. Dr. Bill was one of my closest friends for 47 years when we lost him at 94 about six years ago. He would have been 100 this year.

Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having graduated in 1968.

Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.”

[...]

Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity, but long before he was considered a political figure. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told the story that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.

  Alternet

"He's a fucking moron."  --  Trump's Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

Excerpts from a "really smart person" interview (conducted by an ultra right Fox interviewer, of course) a few days ago...

So there’s a great spirit for [tax reform], people want to see it, and I call it tax cuts. It is tax reform also, but I call it tax cuts. It’ll be the biggest cuts ever in the history of this country.

And I think that there’s tremendous appetite. There’s tremendous spirit for it, not only by the people we’re dealing with in Congress, but for the people out there that want to see something -- $5,000, almost. It can be $5,000 average per individual, -- per group. And so, I’m really looking forward to it. Let’s see what happens.

  Value Walk

Which is it? Per individual or per group? What's a group entail?

BARTIROMO: Yes. You soured on the health care bipartisan plan a bit -- right -- from Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray?

TRUMP: Well I’ve -- I have looked at it very, very strongly. And pretty much, we can do almost what they’re getting. I -- I think he is a tremendous person. I don’t know Senator Murray. I hear very, very good things.

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BARTIROMO: If they can’t get this tax bill done this year, should they forego Thanksgiving and Christmas? Should they be here if they don’t have a bill on your desk by Thanksgiving?

TRUMP: Well I think they should and I think they will. I think a lot of things are happening unless, you know, it’s going to be right after that. But I don’t even like them leaving. But I will say this, I want to get it by the end of the year but I’d be very disappointed if it took that long.

It could be substantially less than that depending on what happens when we send the bill back to the House. You know, they’ll send it back and people are going to go and make 200 suggestions as opposed to maybe no suggestions because it’s a great bill. It’s going to be a great bill. And we’re adjusting.

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BARTIROMO: Paul Ryan did an interview this week and said you are insisting that they have a fourth bracket. [...]

TRUMP: Well, he really said that on the basis that I wanted it or was thinking about it because I want to make sure the middle class gets taken care of. So, in that way, yes, but actually we do have four brackets because we have a zero bracket and people aren’t including that.

So, that would actually make it a fifth bracket as opposed to an eight bracket on the other side, on the other way. I call that our competition which is the competition from the past. No, I think that when Paul says that — we may not have that.

[...]

BARTIROMO: If the top earners pay 80 percent of the taxes why are you so afraid to cut taxes on the top earners?

TRUMP: I think this, look, you know, I am very happy with the way I’ve done part of this in my civilian life, all right.

BARTIROMO: Of course. This is not about —

TRUMP: Other people — well it’s about me representing rich people.

TRUMP: Representing — being representative of rich people. Very interesting to me Bob Kraft was down. He was very nice. He owns the Patriots. He gave me a Super Bowl ring a month ago. And he — [...] But he left this beautiful ring and I immediately give it to the White House and they put it some place and that’s the way it is.

What. The. Fuck.

TRUMP: He said to me — he’s a good man. He said to me you have to do us all a favor, give the tax decrease to the middle class, we don’t need it. We don’t need it. We don’t want it. Give it to the middle class. And, I’ve had many people, very wealthy people tell me the very same thing. I’ve had very few say I want more, I want more.

They really want to see — you know the middle class has really not done very well over the last long period of time. And, so when Paul mentions maybe one more category which I’d rather not have, it may not happen. But the only reason I would have — and he does say this, he’s very plain on what he said is that if for any reason that the other middle class is not being properly taken care of.

WHAT "other" middle class?

Honestly, I'm TRYING to understand.

So, that’s a big factor but we have so many things that are going to be so great bringing the corporate tax down maybe is the most important. And, we have a lot of most important but bringing it down from 35 down to 20 percent that’s a massive — that’ the biggest that we’ve ever done.

"Representing the rich."

Along about page three of this interview transcript, the transcriber gets really, really sloppy, so it then becomes a question of whether The Most Notable Loser actually said something or the transcriber just flubbed it up. And I'm not willing to listen to any tape of it (scheduled to air tomorrow, I believe), so I'll just have to stop here.

But, I would really like to know if he actually said "psychotically" here when he talks about who he wants to head the Fed:

TRUMP: It is in my thinking. And I have a couple of other things in my thinking. But I like talent. And they are both very talented people. And it’s a hard decision. It’s actually a very important decision. People have no — most people have no idea how important that position is. That position is actually — more — a lot of people get rid of the Fed.

Take the Fed out. That’s a very important position. It’s also important psychotically.

Probably that's a flub on the part of the transcriber, but I have no doubt he said most people have no idea how important the position is. He still thinks people are as dumb as he is.

Okay. One more.  (And before this, he said he doesn't call it "tweeting" - he calls it "social media.")

TRUMP: You know what I find; the ones don’t want me to [Tweet] are the enemies. The people who really don’t like, what happened with me and winning the election and all of the things. Those are the ones who say he should, I remember, I was in — I was in a faraway land and I was tweeting. And I said very little. I said like, “I’m in Italy right now,” you know, for the summits. So “I’m in Italy right now and the weather is wonderful.” And one of the — one of the dishonest networks said “Donald Trump is on a Twitter stomp again — President Trump.”

They say “President Trump is on a Twitter stomp” within one tweet. It is such dishonesty.

He forgot there for a second that he's president, did he?

A Twitter "stomp"?  What?  I'm pretty sure no one said "stomp". 

Dude, you're ALWAYS in "a faraway land."

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.