[IAmBroom]

I'm not buying your "3-D chess" explanation that it was a ruse to give taxpayer $$ to Tylenol stockholders, all along.

How about: RFK is smart, but insane, and Trump is genuinely stupid, as people who meet him have been saying for decades.

[HelloMcFly]

> RFK is smart

Based on what evidence?

[taylodl]

Perhaps they meant in comparison to Trump and the rest of Trump's cabinet?

[noir_lord]

There is lichen in my garden that would clear that bar.

[IAmBroom]

Fair.

[nhod]

"Stupid" doesn't seem to be the right word to apply to a man who has managed to (annoyingly) command the attention of the entire world and who has gotten himself elected as the most powerful man in the world twice.

I do not like the man. I find his behavior to be corrupt, immoral, and unethical.

And I also do not hesitate for one moment to admit that he is a singular figure in history who has a deep understanding of human beings and how to exploit them. That may not be classic-elite-intellectual-book-smartness, but it is some kind of smartness, and far from stupid.