Juan Williams Calls Trump an ‘Idiot,’ Then Jesse Watters Drops a Major Reality Check
May 24, 2019 News
Juan Williams thinks that if he were playing poker with Donald Trump, he’d take the president’s money.
But Jesse Watters reminded him that, in November of 2018, Trump’s the one who took all of the chips.
Williams, the longtime NPR journalist, has been the resident liberal on Fox News’ “The Five” for some time now. During Tuesday’s show, Williams called Trump an “idiot” during a debate about Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who became the first Republican in Congress to call for Trump’s impeachment.
The fact that Trump was going after Amash — as well as early Democratic front-runner Joe Biden — proved to Williams that the sitting president is a simpleton. “I think if we invited Donald Trump to the table to play poker with ‘The Five,’ I’d take his money big time,” Williams said.
“It’s like a poker player and he keeps blinking. He’s like, ‘I know what’s going on.’ He thinks Joe Biden is a threat in Pennsylvania. That’s why he’s attacking Joe Biden like that.
“He’s not attacking Kamala Harris. He’s not going after anybody else. He’s going after Joe Biden, he’s going after the media sometimes…”
“He’s going after Justin Amash. Why? There’s a Republican whose finally saying it’s time to impeach this idiot. Yes, this is no coincidence.”
This got a “whoa” from panelist Dana Perino and a more full-throated correction from Jesse Watters.
“He’s not an idiot, Juan,” Watters said. “He’s the president of the United States.”
Not only that, he’s a real-estate mogul who parlayed that into a place in the national culture as a media mogul, reinvented himself after a collapse in the 1990s, flirted with running for the presidency twice, finally ran for it to much derision in 2016 and, well, won.
One of the most persistent myths — particularly in politics — is that of the lucky idiot, the man who bounds from success to success while being a complete ignoramus, somewhat like Peter Sellers’ character in “Being There.”
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken