Ridiculing Trump's solecisms may make you feel better, but it doesn't harm him, and may even help him. Every bit of attention you draw to them draws attention away from things he really doesn't want people looking at, like his business dealings before the presidency.
That this point even requires assertion is the real story here. Why do we agree that neurosurgeons and commercial airline pilots should be highly competent, but shrug when confronted with incontrovertible evidence that a President is not?
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It's because the primary point if democracy is to make sure that whoever is in charge has support if a sizable fraction of the population. He's competent at building a base of supporters. The primary important skill of a politician in a democracy.
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Normally that skill tends to be bundled with at least some other desirable traits. In this case not so much. It's like if we selected leaders based on their ability to run a marathon fast and usually got someone reasonably bright and attractive thanks to correlated traits.
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