r/MurderedByWords Dec 17 '24

#3 Murder of Week Is he just stupid?

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u/OnionTamer Dec 17 '24

They say never attribute someone's words and actions to maliciousness when it can as easily be attributed to ignorance, but with Trump, you can go ahead and assume maliciousness. Is he stupid? Yes. Is he evil? Also yes.

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u/Ksorkrax Dec 18 '24

With Trump, you *hope* that a decision is evil. Evil is calculated and within certain reason.

When he is just doing chaotic random shit, that's the time we should fear.
For some village idiot who lives in a trailer, doing random shit is no problem. If the person who does it has a button for a nuclear arsenal, however...