Tuesday, October 20, 2026

America's idiot savant

Donald Trump holds a midterm political rally in Park City, Kansas on 19 October 2026:

"And one of the questions is, like, um, take a number, sir, so like forty-nine. Take a number and triple it, divide by three, double that, subtract four hundred, add two hundred and ninety-three and divide by seven. What's your number? Now, how many people would get that? I got it. How many people would get it?"

He conflates the old "think of a number" arithmetic trick with the cognitive performance instruction that he is unable to remember.

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