I think I know what I want for my birthday (although I'll have to wait about six months for it to happen): The Little Book of Trumpisms: The Donald on Immigration, Global Warming, His Rivals, Mexicans and More by Seth Milstein

I don't know about you, but I have an appreciation for the profoundly stupid. (I have a copy of The Lexicon of Stupidity somewhere. It features a quote from Trump when asked if he'd ever consider running for president: "To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I'm so good looking.") Trump certainly takes the cake with just about everything he says or tweets, a lot of which is blatantly false. Here, then, is a small selection of some of the stupid things that have come from the POTUS, in no particular order:

• "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words." — Campaign launch rally, 15/06/15

• On Mexican immigrants: "They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us [sic]. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists." — Campaign launch rally, 15/06/15

• "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." — Twitter, 6/10/12

• "I'm the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. Nobody's ever been more successful than me. I'm the most successful person ever to run. Ross Perot isn't successful like me. Romney — I have a Gucci store that's worth more than Romney." — Des Moines Register, 02/06/15

• "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected." — Trump: How To Get Rich, 2004

• "She does have a very nice figure... If [Ivanka] weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." — The View, 2006 [Creepy AF or what?]

• "I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke." — Twitter, 14/10/12 [Neither have I, for that matter. XD]

• "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." — 23/01/16 [Sadly, he's probably right.]

• “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries coming here?” — White House meeting, 11/01/18

• “[Kim Jong-Un] speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” — Fox & Friends, 15/06/18 [Yikes on bikes! Somebody has dictatorial tendencies.]

• “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” — Twitter, 31/05/17

• On Reality: “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” — 24/07/18
• On Nigel Farage (Tori): “He’s a very non-controversial person, right? Very shy.” — 29/10/2020 [Many would say that Farage is highly controversial and outspoken.]
• "Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light. Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way." — White House Coronavirus briefing on 23/04/2020
• On Minnesota residents protesting the murder of George Floyd: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts."
• "In Europe, they live — they're forest cities, they're called forest cities. They maintain their forest. They manage their forest. I was with the head of a major country — it's a forest city. He said, 'Sir, we have trees that are far more, they ignite much easier than California. There shouldn't be that problem.'"
• On Windmills and wind turbines: "So they make these things, and then they put them up, and if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price. They're noisy, they kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go, take a look, a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill some day. You'll see more birds than you've ever seen ever in your life ..."

I hope those gave you a chuckle or two as Monday draws to a close and you shake your head at the sheer stupidity of Donald J Trump, "the world's most improbable president".

As a follow-up, I should probably do a post on the stupid things that old "Sleepy" Joe Biden has said, for the sake of fairness.

Snark out!