Forrest's Mom Was Right

To be clear, I do not expect the President of the United States, any President of the United States, to be the smartest person in the world or even the smartest person in the room. And there's no need for that because the Leader of the Free World has legions of brilliant people, all proficient specialists in the many and sundry requirements the complexities of our twenty-first-century world demands. 

All of us are smarter together than each of us alone. It's practically math. All I expect the President of the United States to do in any time of national challenge is to heed the advice of those smart people with whom he has surrounded himself. 

We've not always been blessed with bright people in our nation's highest office, at least in my lifetime, but the current occupant plumbs new depths of ignorance and arrogance. He's not only stupid as in uneducated; he's indolent and uneducable. If you put his brain in a mosquito's ass it would roll around and make a noise like a BB in a boxcar. 

The guy who stood on the balcony of the White House and stared into the eclipse of the sun refuses to allow his medical team to conduct daily press briefings without him and his demeanor and behavior are leading many observers to suspect he will overrule their recommendations, whatever they are, for non-medical reasons. 

His arrogance overwhelms their intelligence and if we're not careful, his pathological need for praise for what he (and he alone) sees as his outstanding leadership during this pandemic will get us all killed. Main Street will die, but Wall Street will be okay. 
-bill kenny