SpokenTruth said:
He spoke it. The sheer ignorance that compels him to believe that you cannot store energy from windmills is staggering. Worse is that he had the expectation that his rally attendees all have the same mental cognition and would accept his statement as fact. |
"I know a lot about wind". That line right there, and how he delivers it, is clearly Trump being Trump. He's joking around. He may understand the cost of wind and how that compares to fossil fuels, but how wind energy actually works, probably not. He's being a smart ass. He knows that he doesn't actually know all that much about wind, and he also knows when he says stuff like, I know a lot about _insert topic here_, that it drives the left mad because they either hate his ego and arrogance or they hate that he's 'lying' because they think he really believes it himself and so does 'much' of his audience. Many know it's just part of the show.
I used to do something similar to my brother all the time when we were young and it would drive him insane when we argued, which was the point. Looking back it was a bit of a dick move because he was a few years younger, so he didn't have the life experience yet, and he's also always been more closed minded, but when he actually had a valid point, or wasn't simply being a pain in the butt for the sake of it, I wouldn't act like that. I partially see the same with Trump. He's getting bashed constantly for little to no reason, rarely heavily justified, and so he's being a dick to drive them nuts as retaliation, hoping they will back down. If they don't, then it's simply fair game as far as he's concerned. Usually this is a last ditch tactic if you can't get through in a politically correct manner.
It has very little to do with what he actually said, and much more to do with Trump trying to prove he's right and his opponents are wrong. He's basically a Gorilla bashing his chest. Trying to get attention and showing everyone who the boss is, because it's a tactic that works if you know what you're doing, for men anyway, especially if you can back it up. It's not so much about what he's saying, it's how he's saying it, and the body language that accompanies it.
