The anti-Trump Republican group known as The Lincoln Project is keeping up the pace of their criticism of the president as the general election approaches. This Friday morning, the organization released the latest in their long and growing list of quickly viral video ads. In the latest video, The Lincoln Project highlights some of the assessments of Trump from people who have worked with him at the White House. In one particularly noteworthy example, the Trump administration’s former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is reported to have privately referred to Trump as “a fucking moron.”
Trump, of course, has consistently tried to distance himself from the folks who have left his administration, but it’s not just Tillerson who’s been critical — it’s also former chief of staff John Kelly, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, former national security adviser John Bolton, and the list goes on. Check out the new video from The Lincoln Project below:
“He is a f&*king moron.” – Rex Tillerson, Trump’s former Secretary of State pic.twitter.com/ZbsJ9300mu
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 14, 2020
There is, of course, plenty of evidence for the assessments of Trump as a moron. In one particularly noteworthy recent example, Trump commented to reporters that the 1918 influenza pandemic may have ended World War II — but that ended in the 1940s. Shouldn’t the president of the United States have a grasp of basic facts like the general timeframe in which World War II ended? On other occasions, Trump has — among other things — said that he’s “never understood wind,” suggested exploring the possibility of injecting household disinfectants as a Coronavirus treatment, tried to convince Americans that mail-in voting and absentee voting are two different things, and more. He eventually claimed that he was joking when he made the disinfectant comment — but he did not originally seem to be.
Americans suffer under the weight of Trump’s idiocy. When he, for instance, tries to pretend like there’s a chance that the Coronavirus might just disappear, Americans are left waiting even longer for remotely competent leadership, while the death tolls and economic costs grow. As of Friday morning, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Trump in national-level polls by an average of 7.7 percent, according to RealClearPolitics.
Check out Twitter’s response to the new Lincoln Project ad below:
