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President Donald Trump looks up toward the solar eclipse without protective eyewear on the Truman Balcony at the White House on August 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump's tweets Saturday morning that he is "like, really smart" and "a very stable genius" sparked ridicule on social media. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Twitter Goes Wild After Trump Tweets He's "A Very Stable Genius"
"This might be enough to lead the board of any corporation to call an emergency meeting on its CEO's mental status," says former White House ethics director Walter Shaub
Jan 06, 2018
Twitter users had a field day Saturday following President Donald Trump's morning tweets saying that he is "like, really smart" and qualifies as "a very stable genius."
The assertions follow renewed scrutiny of his mental capacity thanks to an explosive new book by journalist Michael Wolff that features interviews with members of the president's inner circle.
Trump tweeted:
\u201cNow 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.....\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241150
\u201c....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. 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.....\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241662
\u201c....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!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241851
The tweets drew jokes, jeers, and more than a few references to Mr. Ed.
Among those weighing in were two former White House ethics lawyers. Walter Shaub, for one, tweeted in response: "This might be enough to lead the board of any corporation to call an emergency meeting on its CEO's mental status." He also mocked Trump's tweets with a play on the song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance:
Richard Painter, meanwhile, said, the "embarrassing" tweets were akin to "a statement by an immature candidate for second grade class president" and "the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room."
\u201cThis reads like a statement by an immature candidate for second grade class president. Embarrassing. https://t.co/w3mJSMKYay\u201d— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1515245093
\u201c\u201cI am a very stable genius\u201d is the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room. Or so it was a year ago. https://t.co/hoh8arOrNU\u201d— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1515252425
Other social media users weighed in on the tweets as well:
\u201cA shout out to the true, one & only #stablegenius: Mr. Ed, who had a greater mastery of the English language than @realDonaldTrump\u201d— *you\u2019re (parody) (@*you\u2019re (parody)) 1515255182
\u201cHahahahahaha\u201d— Mindy Kaling (@Mindy Kaling) 1515255052
\u201cIt's as if they held a contest to find the least presidential person in America, and the prize was you got to be president. https://t.co/La9ixpZfgr\u201d— Bill McKibben (@Bill McKibben) 1515247373
\u201cnothing but respect for MY stable genius\u201d— heath (he/him) (@heath (he/him)) 1515248738
\u201cIf #trump is a stable genius then I'm a hair model nba all-star.\u201d— moby X\u24cbX (@moby X\u24cbX) 1515252825
\u201cStable genius.\u201d— Kal Penn (@Kal Penn) 1515252892
\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on the lunacy that @potus woke up this morning & decided to tell us he\u2019s a mentally stable genius. I just want to point out: His Brilliance actually typed a valley-girl-esque \u201clike\u201d pause. When u write \u201cI\u2019m, like, smart\u201d it means you\u2019re, like, not.\u201d— Kurt Eichenwald (@Kurt Eichenwald) 1515257765
\u201c.@realdonaldtrump You\u2019re an imbecile. This is a stable genius. #MisterEd2020\u201d— Danny Zuker (@Danny Zuker) 1515258838
\u201cWile E. Coyote: A Very Stable Genius\u201d— Howard Sherman (@Howard Sherman) 1515246115
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Twitter users had a field day Saturday following President Donald Trump's morning tweets saying that he is "like, really smart" and qualifies as "a very stable genius."
The assertions follow renewed scrutiny of his mental capacity thanks to an explosive new book by journalist Michael Wolff that features interviews with members of the president's inner circle.
Trump tweeted:
\u201cNow 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.....\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241150
\u201c....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. 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.....\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241662
\u201c....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!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241851
The tweets drew jokes, jeers, and more than a few references to Mr. Ed.
Among those weighing in were two former White House ethics lawyers. Walter Shaub, for one, tweeted in response: "This might be enough to lead the board of any corporation to call an emergency meeting on its CEO's mental status." He also mocked Trump's tweets with a play on the song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance:
Richard Painter, meanwhile, said, the "embarrassing" tweets were akin to "a statement by an immature candidate for second grade class president" and "the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room."
\u201cThis reads like a statement by an immature candidate for second grade class president. Embarrassing. https://t.co/w3mJSMKYay\u201d— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1515245093
\u201c\u201cI am a very stable genius\u201d is the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room. Or so it was a year ago. https://t.co/hoh8arOrNU\u201d— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1515252425
Other social media users weighed in on the tweets as well:
\u201cA shout out to the true, one & only #stablegenius: Mr. Ed, who had a greater mastery of the English language than @realDonaldTrump\u201d— *you\u2019re (parody) (@*you\u2019re (parody)) 1515255182
\u201cHahahahahaha\u201d— Mindy Kaling (@Mindy Kaling) 1515255052
\u201cIt's as if they held a contest to find the least presidential person in America, and the prize was you got to be president. https://t.co/La9ixpZfgr\u201d— Bill McKibben (@Bill McKibben) 1515247373
\u201cnothing but respect for MY stable genius\u201d— heath (he/him) (@heath (he/him)) 1515248738
\u201cIf #trump is a stable genius then I'm a hair model nba all-star.\u201d— moby X\u24cbX (@moby X\u24cbX) 1515252825
\u201cStable genius.\u201d— Kal Penn (@Kal Penn) 1515252892
\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on the lunacy that @potus woke up this morning & decided to tell us he\u2019s a mentally stable genius. I just want to point out: His Brilliance actually typed a valley-girl-esque \u201clike\u201d pause. When u write \u201cI\u2019m, like, smart\u201d it means you\u2019re, like, not.\u201d— Kurt Eichenwald (@Kurt Eichenwald) 1515257765
\u201c.@realdonaldtrump You\u2019re an imbecile. This is a stable genius. #MisterEd2020\u201d— Danny Zuker (@Danny Zuker) 1515258838
\u201cWile E. Coyote: A Very Stable Genius\u201d— Howard Sherman (@Howard Sherman) 1515246115
Twitter users had a field day Saturday following President Donald Trump's morning tweets saying that he is "like, really smart" and qualifies as "a very stable genius."
The assertions follow renewed scrutiny of his mental capacity thanks to an explosive new book by journalist Michael Wolff that features interviews with members of the president's inner circle.
Trump tweeted:
\u201cNow 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.....\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241150
\u201c....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. 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.....\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241662
\u201c....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!\u201d— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1515241851
The tweets drew jokes, jeers, and more than a few references to Mr. Ed.
Among those weighing in were two former White House ethics lawyers. Walter Shaub, for one, tweeted in response: "This might be enough to lead the board of any corporation to call an emergency meeting on its CEO's mental status." He also mocked Trump's tweets with a play on the song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance:
Richard Painter, meanwhile, said, the "embarrassing" tweets were akin to "a statement by an immature candidate for second grade class president" and "the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room."
\u201cThis reads like a statement by an immature candidate for second grade class president. Embarrassing. https://t.co/w3mJSMKYay\u201d— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1515245093
\u201c\u201cI am a very stable genius\u201d is the way people talk on the way to the funny farm, not the Situation Room. Or so it was a year ago. https://t.co/hoh8arOrNU\u201d— Richard W. Painter (@Richard W. Painter) 1515252425
Other social media users weighed in on the tweets as well:
\u201cA shout out to the true, one & only #stablegenius: Mr. Ed, who had a greater mastery of the English language than @realDonaldTrump\u201d— *you\u2019re (parody) (@*you\u2019re (parody)) 1515255182
\u201cHahahahahaha\u201d— Mindy Kaling (@Mindy Kaling) 1515255052
\u201cIt's as if they held a contest to find the least presidential person in America, and the prize was you got to be president. https://t.co/La9ixpZfgr\u201d— Bill McKibben (@Bill McKibben) 1515247373
\u201cnothing but respect for MY stable genius\u201d— heath (he/him) (@heath (he/him)) 1515248738
\u201cIf #trump is a stable genius then I'm a hair model nba all-star.\u201d— moby X\u24cbX (@moby X\u24cbX) 1515252825
\u201cStable genius.\u201d— Kal Penn (@Kal Penn) 1515252892
\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on the lunacy that @potus woke up this morning & decided to tell us he\u2019s a mentally stable genius. I just want to point out: His Brilliance actually typed a valley-girl-esque \u201clike\u201d pause. When u write \u201cI\u2019m, like, smart\u201d it means you\u2019re, like, not.\u201d— Kurt Eichenwald (@Kurt Eichenwald) 1515257765
\u201c.@realdonaldtrump You\u2019re an imbecile. This is a stable genius. #MisterEd2020\u201d— Danny Zuker (@Danny Zuker) 1515258838
\u201cWile E. Coyote: A Very Stable Genius\u201d— Howard Sherman (@Howard Sherman) 1515246115
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