Trump’s Weird Flex On His Smarts Has Critics Howling

Self-proclaimed “extraordinarily steady genius” Donald Trump’s boast about his “very sensible” late uncle — which the previous president used to recommend that, by extension, meant he was exceptionally intelligent too — drew mockery on social media on Wednesday.

The previous president and present Republican nominee, throughout a city corridor with Fox Information’ Sean Hannity, was bombastically bragging about how he “understood” nuclear weapons “perhaps higher than anyone” when he went off on a tangent about John Trump, his physicist and inventor uncle who was a professor on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how for nearly half a century.

“Very sensible man. Now we have a sensible household. It’s good to have a sensible household,” Trump stated, earlier than pivoting again to America’s nuclear program.

Trump has used his uncle in an try to show his smarts earlier than.

And, as earlier than, folks on social media had ideas: