Donald Trump's Bizarre Flex On His Smarts Has Critics Howling

Lee Moran

5 September 2024 at 9:12 am·1-min read

Self-proclaimed “extremely stable genius” Donald Trump’s boast about his “very smart” late uncle — which the former president used to suggest that, by extension, meant he was exceptionally clever too — drew mockery on social media Wednesday.

The former president and current GOP nominee, during a town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, was bombastically bragging about how he “understood” nuclear weapons “maybe better than anybody” when he went off on a tangent about John Trump, his physicist and inventor uncle who was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for almost half a century.

“Very smart guy. We have a smart family. It’s nice to have a smart family,” Trump said, before pivoting back to America’s nuclear program.

Trump: The nuclear program… I understand it maybe better than anybody.. My uncle was at MIT pic.twitter.com/m9qxCP8euk
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 5, 2024

Trump has used his uncle in an attempt to prove his smarts before.

And, as before, people on social media had thoughts:

My uncle is a cardiologist please hire me to do heart surgery. https://t.co/nDoZMld4G8
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 5, 2024

I didn't know college degrees were hereditary
— RidinwithKamala (@tltown2019) September 5, 2024

This is the guy who expects MIT cred because his uncle taught there, right? pic.twitter.com/uouHJAz56Q
— Courier Fontella Bass (@DonGone5) August 23, 2024

My uncle is 6’11.

I’m still not. https://t.co/HZoR5dL4yG
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 5, 2024

Proof genetics can be cruel and evolution can go in any direction https://t.co/zSuDXoXs2Z
— Somerled Mackay - #actor #comic #EquityUK (@SomeAreDead) September 5, 2024

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