CNN Host Roasts ‘Stupid’ Trump, 79, for Believing Obvious Satire

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.” pic.twitter.com/G8vBPVJAgX

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“The claim, if you can call it that, originated on a website called The Dunning-Kruger Times,” which is named after the Dunning-Kruger effect—a cognitive bias coined by a Cornell psychologist, Tapper said. “It starts in 1995 when some bank robbers outside Pittsburgh are picked up because they had robbed a bank with no mask, no disguise, no sunglasses, no mustaches. They were caught on closed circuit TV, and they were stunned that they were caught,” he continued. “Why were they stunned? Because they were under the belief that if they put lemon juice on their faces, they would be invisible.”

Likening the phenomena to Trump’s gaffe over the weekend, Tapper explained that Dr. Dunning “heard that and was stunned and wanted to find out more. And he did a study. Basically, the study suggests that the less somebody knows about a subject, the more they think they are an expert on that subject.”

He concluded, “In other words, stupid people don’t know how stupid they are, because they’re so stupid.”

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