Steve Benson for February 02, 2019

Trump’s “war against intelligence” is much more than mere stupidity; it is Trump dancing to every yank of Putin’s puppet strings, or the Trump dummy appearing to speak the words of ventriloquist Putin.

This war against intelligence is being waged on multiple levels:

Ridiculing and disregarding info from his own intelligence agencies led by his hand-picked appointees (“I have the best people…”) and repeatedly making public statements that he trusts his puppetmaster Vladimir Putin more than his own intelligence agencies.

Betraying intelligence agencies by GAVING CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE TO THE RUSSIANS (Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov [counterpart to our Secretary of State] and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak) … IN THE OVAL OFFICE. (Trying to decide which defiles the Oval Office more … oral sex with a consenting adult or GIVING CLASSIFIED TOP SECRETS TO A HOSTILE FOREIGN ADVERSARY.)

War against facts, truth, education, science and reality — the aspects of life we associate with “intelligence” outside the world of law enforcement, international intrigue and government secrets — because TrumpubliCONs depend on keeping people stupid enough and gullible enough to keep voting for them. “I love uneducated people.”

And someone who is going to disparage intelligence but can’t use the correct form of there / their has made their own case on which they are convicted on the charge of abject hypocritical ignorance.

There’s intelligence, then there’s Individual 1.

In the interest of science, we should encourage Bonespurs and his supporters to win Darwin Awards, they seem good for it.

Someday they will sculpt a large statue of Trump, and it will bear a bronze plaque that reads: STOOOOPID!!! .

How is it that Trump knows all the American government intelligence is “wrong”?

What, exactly, is his alternated source of information?

The Trump University Department of Empirical Evidence Denial.

Double agent Trump is Putin’s best man on the Republican team.

Trump doesn’t bother with intelligence reports or press conferences.

It’s Trump vs everyone else in the world.

Trump has to go.

What do you expect? He listens to Fox Noise, where yesterday two of their commentators wondered how people can heat their houses in this extreme cold by using solar panels and wind power! Stupid is as stupid does. And plenty of Trumpettes actually believe this swill.

Great cartoon Mr. Benson, but where is Tweedledee?

As I started to scroll down, I thought that dunce cap was going to be a KKK hood. But Dunce works, too.

Trump, our president de jure; Vladimir Putin, our president de facto.

Talk about someone who is an expert in “Counter-Intelligence”…

Why is the flag upside down? Surely McNuts isn’t signaling distress

Trump and his very, very large brain at work, day 1, Trump University reboot. He knows bigly words. Trump U. Where nowledge is king.

Does crazy Trump get his intelligence from the voices in his head when he can’t talk to Putin?

( As several commentators have pointed out ) What else do you expect from the Head of Trump University?

I remember a book call Everything I Learn I Learn In Kindergarten. Apparently Trump never when to kindergarten.

Stupidity, treason, or both.

And I am sure that if he qualified, Trump would rise from the grave to give an acceptance speech

What a great visual! Thanks Steve ♥

In a recent interview, Trump claimed that the intelligence community got it wrong when we were building the case for the second invasion of Iraq. I disagree. It was the Bush/Cheney admin that created that drama. Including discrediting Wilson’s report on yellow cake uranium and ordering Powell to give his speech to the UN in spite of the NRC engineers telling him the science that he was presenting to the world was false.

STEVE: Like the art. You should become a portraitist.