The president is an imbecile who routinely forces government officials to spend time and capital shooting down the dumbest ideas...a thread. 1/
He pushed the Navy for years to spend billions on “goddamned steam” catapults on aircraft carriers because “we’re spending all that money on electric, and nobody knows what it’s going to be like in bad conditions.” 2/ https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/28/trump-aircraft-carriers-steam-1473984
Seriously, just look at this quote and imagine being the Navy official who has to figure out what to do next. 3/
He wanted to electrify the border wall, put spikes on the top, dig a moat, and fill it with snakes and alligators. 4/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html
He wanted to buy Greenland. Seriously. 5/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223
He suggested the federal government nuke hurricanes. (Response: “Sir, we’ll look into that.") 6/ https://www.axios.com/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes-97231f38-2394-4120-a3fa-8c9cf0e3f51c.html
And now, of course, he wants health professionals busy responding to a pandemic to spend their time investigating whether injecting bleach would work, after spending weeks pushing them on unproven (though at least not idiotic) treatments. 7/
I'm sure I'm forgetting many more, and this isn't even accounting for his idiotic ideas no one acts on, like his belief that windmills cause cancer or the F-35 is literally invisible. (Seriously, google it). Bottom line: the president is a dangerous moron. END