Five months into Donald Trump’s administration, only the unwise doubt the president’s intelligence. No doubt enjoying the scramble to his latest manufactured distraction, Trump chided reporters: “You’re going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer.” Perhaps. Who cares what reporters think, anyway, goes the thinking. That’s his title, but his identity is Donald J. Trump, television star, celebrity wheeler-dealer, a man who grabs what he wants. It takes a certain kind of intelligence to spin a yarn so counterintuitive and defiantly false that some people will believe it anyway.

Source: Washington Post June 24, 2017 00:00 UTC