Quote (IceMage @ Apr 25 2020 02:22am)
During the 2016 election all the presidential candidates were given the opportunity to answer a set of scientific questions and elaborate on their policies.
My PI gave everybody in our lab a copy for every candidate.
Some of the candidates weren't great, as expected, but Trump's answers were not only the shortest of anybodies, but I can't remember him actually addressing a single question. This wasn't an interview or anything, it was a written survey.
He has never showed any indication public or private that I'm aware of that he understands even basic scientific ideas. Add that in with his pathological need to be seen as the smartest person in the room (probably spawned from his surrounding himself with yes-men all his life) and his inability to listen and you've got a president who can't even begin to give sensible leadership in the face of a real emergency.
That same PI, when asked, said he has voted Republican his whole life (he's from Texas) but could never vote for somebody as totally inept as Trump.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Apr 25 2020 01:33am