"Four years ago, when Trump led the “birther” movement, President Obama called him a “carnival barker.” Conservatives have embraced that view; Jindal last week called Trump a “carnival act.” And that could be the tycoon’s undoing. People will disagree about his politics, but once the perception spreads across ideological lines that Trump is a clown, he’s done.
Trump helps the perception by sounding buffoonish. “I say, not in a braggadocious way, I’ve made billions,” he announced Wednesday. “I’m number one in every polls [sic] by a lot,” he further declared, and at another point asserted that “I’m a very militaristic person.” Asked about a Hugh Hewitt radio interview in which he confused the Kurds with the Iranian Quds Force and seemed not to recognize the name of Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani, Trump explained that “Hugh was giving me name after name, Arab name, Arab name.” (Soleimani is not an Arab.)
Trump’s defense of his foreign policy ignorance? “I will know more about the problems of this world by the time I sit, and you look at what’s going on in this world right now by people that supposedly know, this world is a mess.” Trump’s clownish facial expressions of mockery and protest, caught on split screen while others spoke, did not help him convey gravitas. Neither did his juvenile taunts when Bush spoke about denying Trump casino gambling in Florida even though Trump hosted a fundraiser for Bush: “Totally false . . . Wrong! Don’t make things up, Jeb.” (Bush’s version was correct.)"
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