The following article by Marty Kaplan was posted on the AlterNet website July 7, 2017:
Go ahead, take a guess.
“What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump?”
That’s the open-ended question a Quinnipiac poll asked Americans recently. The No. 1 answer: “idiot.”
Have you seen anything since then that would move the needle away from “idiot”? Or from “ignorant” (the ninth most frequent answer), or “stupid” (12th)? He doesn’t know what’s in the Senate’s health care bill. He’s not reading his intelligence briefings. He’s watching more Fox News than your cranky uncle. His behavior seems engineered to provoke responses like, “Can you believe what an idiot/ignoramus/stupid person Trump is?”