Trump’s Bizarre Flex On His Smarts Has Critics Howling

Self-proclaimed “extremely stable genius” Donald Trump’s boast about his “very smart” 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 former president and present Republican nominee, throughout a city corridor 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 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nearly half a century.

“Very smart guy. We have a smart family. It’s nice to have a smart family,” 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: