Trump Flunks His TruMP
- fmcinerney
- May 2, 2018
- 5 min read

Today, the New York Times published the list of questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask Dumb Don. While they are not quoted verbatim and some have been condensed by the Times, it is clear that each question has been carefully crafted to corner the Dumb Dude in the morass of his own intellectual confusion.
Publius knows that the guy who writes twelve mistake sentences will not be able to answer a single question without contradicting himself and, naturally, incriminating himself. You can go through the Times list, run it against Publius’
and you will see in a second that there is no way Don can get out of this.
Mueller’s questions are designed to force Dumb Don to flunk his own TruMP exam. And, because Mueller already has answers to most of his questions—they are pretty transparent—failing his TruMP means that Don will be charged. And likely convicted.
So, because of Don’s monster intellectual insufficiencies, his lawyers must fight to the death to prevent him from giving any testimony, ever. Publius has shown that as soon as Don opens his mouth, it’s President Pence time.
Here you see the value of Publius: apply simple logic—in this case an eighth-grade teacher’s review of Dumb Don’s English grammar and composition in Don's August 15, 2016 policy paper on security—to just about anything that Don says or does, and you get the right answer every time.
As a matter of fact, nothing the Dumb Dude has done during his presidency falls outside Publius' simple analysis of Don’s Trumplish.
Publius can tell Mueller to expect answers ranging from evasion to sentences like the Trumplish Don used to fire James Comey. As Publius showed, several translations of this Trumplish sentence into English have Don admitting culpability in Kremlingate. Others have him admitting that he lied and/or is incompetent. His legal team will love that!!
Their problem is that Don won’t know that he’s doing this because his brain is a fog. Trumplish will just pour out of Don’s mouth before they can say or do anything. Mueller will pounce. Game over.
Worse for Dumb Don, he can’t tell truth from falsehood. They are the same to him and change from moment to moment for reasons that he cannot explain. This makes him, literally, incapable of lying. He has no way of knowing if he is or isn’t.
Because his syntax-free Trumplish cannot be translated into English, as in the Comey case, Dumb Don’s testimony will instantly collapse into a mess of confusion, contradiction and self-incrimination.
And, as Publius long ago demonstrated, if Mueller asks Don to read information on what he will be asked about, like Comey’s March 20, 2017 testimony, Don will not be able to because he cannot read or write.
This will be a spectacular revelation because Publius appears to be the only American to have taken the few minutes required to review Don’s policy papers before the election to see if their composition and grammar meet eighth grade English standards. Sounds nuts, but you won’t see Publius dirt-simple analysis anywhere but here. Nor, as a result, will you see Publius’ uncanny accuracy anywhere else.
Makes you wonder, what was the GOP thinking when they nominated the Dumb Dude?
May 3, 2018 The REAL Stormy Daniels Story
On the surface, Dumb Don's admission that he lied about his affair with porn star Stormy Daniels and that he paid her into the bargain looks like just another Trumpian mess.
It's not.
In order to claim that he did not pay Daniels out of campaign funds, Don had his new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, tell Sean Hannity, of all people, on Fox News that he had indeed paid her off. Something that he had denied repeatedly.
Can there be anyone in his circle of family, friends and colleagues from Melania to Rudy who isn't shuddering at what this means for them? They cannot count on a word the man says. Or thinks.
(A real man would have asked Judy Woodruff to interview him, not his lawyer, and taken what's coming.)
What the Dumb Dude said and did in the Daniels affair maps precisely onto Publius' September, 2016 assessment of Don's mental capabilities in Dumb Don. Don cannot tell the difference between truth and falsehood. Nor can he explain the implications of one for the other or even why it might matter.
For Mueller, this is gold, pure gold. Map the Daniels imbroglio onto Mueller's questions and you can see with great precision what the result will be. The moment Don talks, he can kiss off his presidency. And everyone in his circle knows this.
For foreign leaders, friends and foes alike, Daniels has portrayed Dumb Don as weak, vacillating, indecisive and incapable. They will treat him accordingly.
To understand the gravity of Stormy Daniels for the United States and the world order, plug Don's words and actions about her into these Publius entries. You will not like what you see.
You will conclude, as Publius did long ago, that Dumb Don has thrown away everything we have gained since the Zimmerman Telegram.
Stormy is Force 12!
May 6, 2018 Giuliani Bows to Publius
Dumb Don's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has bowed to Publius and bowed deeply.
On May 2nd, Publius wrote (above), "Because of Don’s monster intellectual insufficiencies, his lawyers must fight to the death to prevent him from giving any testimony, ever. Publius has shown that as soon as Don opens his mouth, it’s President Pence time."
Recognizing that Publius' rules of TruMP are right on the money, Giuliani announced just three days later that he will do all he can to prevent the Dumb Dude from testifying in Mueller's Kremlingate investigation. Including having Don plead the Fifth even though it means admitting that Don's answers would be incriminating.
If this costs the GOP Coalition the mid terms, the Big Dumb One will toss over the Coalition to keep his Presidency.
No wonder Paul Ryan is headed for the exits.
May 22, 2018 Entire Trump Team Bows to Publius
The Dumb Dude's attempt to work out a trade deal with China ended up being as incoherent as his 12-mistake Trumplish sentence in Dumb Don. His staggering intellectual insufficiencies sabotaged his trade negotiations with China in a way that China can see see how to play Don's mental limitations to its benefit.
Critically, the members of Don's negotiating team fell out with each other publicly in China as if they were all separate parts of Don's illiterate sentence. They all failed their TruMP.
This is the cost of Don's Trumplish. No one on Don's team speaks Trumplish -- only Don does this -- so that everyone on his team has a different understanding of what Don says and follows it. And Don cannot tell any of them what he means, because he doesn't know what he means.
For China ("The Center of Everything "in Chinese ), this is money in the bank.
For us?
We just pay.
December 6, 2018
This is priceless. A retired teacher tries to edit Dumb Don's Trumplish!!
December 7, 2018
It took Fox News' Tucker Carlson two and a half years after he read Dumb Don's August 15, 2016 misfire on US security to admit what he has long known. He told Dei Weltwoche that Don is incapable of learning, let alone acting. Well done Tucker! You've deliberately mislead Fox audiences for years. Now tell them what they are supposed to do about this.
And Rudy Giuliani was overheard telling the Washington Post that, as Publius predicted here, it took Dumb Don three weeks to write answers to Mueller's simple questions.


It took Dum Don's National Security Advisor John Bolton six years to catch up to Publius. On March 26, 2022, he told the The Palm Beach Post of Dumb Don's ability to negotiate peace in The Ukraine, "He's not capable of it. This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That's just not what he does." No kidding!