What is the dumbest thing a politician has ever said?

"The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact check." Vance literally complained that he wasn't allowed to lie during a debate.

"My concern is, uh, that the whole island [Guam] will become so overpopulated it will tip over and, uh, capsize." Hank Johnson - US House of Representatives, Georgia https://youtu.be/cesSRfXqS1Q?si

Former Idaho Republican Congressman Raul Labrador said, "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care." He got booed for that one. Then he got elected as the state's Attorney General.

Covid is a hoax that will go away.  But you could pick pretty much anything else trump has ever said. Dumbest president ever.

In 2010, Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson suggested that a proposed military buildup could cause the island of Guam to "tip over and capsize". During a House Armed Services Committee hearing, he said, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize" Admiral Robert F. Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, responded to the comment by saying, "Uhh, we don't anticipate that"

“Concepts of a plan”

“And we’ll make Mexico pay for it!”

*Insert Donald Trump quote here*

Trump praised the Americans’ military efforts in the war against Great Britain. “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” (about a war in the 1800's)

"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids".

The body has a way of shutting down to prevent pregnancy if it's a legitimate r***.

''You know, I've always wondered about the taping equipment. But I'm damn glad we have it.'' Nixon

"I've done more for black people than any other president." - Donald Trump

“I believe gay marriage should be between a man and a woman” - Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Make America great again"

The island of Guam is in danger of sinking b/c the military was going to put too many troops there.

''There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.''

This is just going to be a thread of Trump quotes.

It changes frequently.. about every time Donald Trump opens his stupid mouth.

Not much point in answering, since Trump will top it by this time tomorrow

''For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks.''

I'm a fighter not a quitter. I am resigning.

I know it's not THE dumbest but I'm digging this one up from the archives because it's so funny: "POTATOE"

A far right German politician said that hitler was a leftist

The police are not here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder. Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley during the 1968 Democratic Convention.

[R*** is like the rain, if it's inevitable lie back and enjoy it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Williams).

“A day like today is not a day for soundbites, we can leave those at home, but I feel the hand of history upon our shoulder.” - Tony Blair “In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating — they're eating the pets of the people that live there." - guess who “Funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at" – Neil Parish, Tory MP, explaining why he was watching p********** in the House of Commons. “Yesterday I went, as we all must, to Peppa Pig World" - Boris Johnson

I don’t know if he’s made the single dumbest utterance, but for sheer, staggering volume of dumb shit, trump wins. Where to begin? “Groceries… an old-fashioned word… It sort of says a bag with different things in it”.

Every last word Trump has sputtered.

I was fond of being promised by a “business genius” that prescription prices would go down 1,500%.

Check Trump's twitter. Whatever the last bullshit he spewed would beat out anything any other politician has ever said.

What’s the latest from trump? I’ll go with that

"They're eating the dogs"

"Global warming is fine because we'll have more oceanfront property."

"I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater. And there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there... By the way, lot of shark attacks lately, I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was. He said ‘There’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman’s swimming.' She really got decimated and other people too, a lot of shark attacks. So I said, there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking, do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming to that water. But you know what I’d do? If there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark.”

*looking* *directly* *at* *the* *sun*

"Please clap"

Sorry this question is too fluid - turn on Fox News for a real time analysis.

This week?

“It depends on what your definition of the word ‘is’ is.” “Mission accomplished!” “Sometimes you misunderestimated me.” A few oldies hopelessly overshadowed by everything Trump has ever said.

I'd go with William Henry Harrison's entire inaugural address. It was raining, he spoke outside for 2 1/2 hours, caught pneumonia, and died a few weeks later.

The Iran war will end "when I feel it in my bones.'. - DJT

the election was stolen

I endorse Donald Trump

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -Dan Quayle

"I don't hold a hose mate" - then Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison explaining why it was fine he'd gone to Hawaii on holidays when half the east coast was on fire.

There’s a lot of recent bias in this thread. Or maybe most of y’all are too young to remember some of George W’s greatest hits.

Whatever Trump says next.

"____________." Insert any Donald Trump words spoken today.

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

Something about nuking hurricanes or injecting bleach.

"Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" I am still not sure if he was lying or duped into believing it.

Anything that comes out of Trump's mouth makes it the dumbest thing a politician has said. Those who don't get that fact are the people I want to see on a different side of the ground. Edit: you to who.

Who was that guy who just recently said the Strait of Hormuz would just open up "naturally?" That guy.

AOC once said growing cauliflower in New York was racist because it's white people food and they should grow yucca instead. Yucca grows in the dessert and cauliflower is actually from the middle east. Not the dumbest thing any politician ever said but it's the funniest one I can think of off the top of my head. George Bush also once said "The problem with the French is they don't even have a word for entrepreneur.". Classic.

While I believe there isn’t any politician dumber than tRump, I’m tempted to add that Todd Akin, a late US Representative for Missouri, had a pretty bad one. He made an anti-abortion argument that r*** can’t result in pregnancy because “If it’s a legitimate r***, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Standing up to the American people just to tell us that tylenol is the cause of autism.

Don’t blame Trump. Imagine hearing everything he has said and VOTING for him. TWICE! How much do you have to hate the other side for you to hear all of that and vote for him.

*gestures broadly to our sitting US government*

They’re not lies, they’re alternative facts I have concepts of a plan Apolitically speaking, at least 95% of the things Trump says Probably Pol Pot too

"They're eating the dogs...." The answer is always Trump.

"What's the dumbest thing a politician who isn't Donald Trump has ever said" might be a better question. To that end, I'm going to go with: "You don't need to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate" - Sen. Mark Pryor Honorable mention to that congressman who was concerned that stationing too many troops in Guam would cause it to capsize.

Every day trump says a new one My favourite is "i have a concept of a plan"

The answer changes every time Trump opens his mouth

Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again - George W. Bush

Anything Pauline Hanson or Bob Katter have ever said.

They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs.

Whatever was said the last time Donald Trump opened his mouth. His idiocy is the gift that just keeps on giving.

"We all are going to die": Joni Ernst, Senator from Iowa

Everything out of Trump’s mouth

Pretty much everything Donald Trump has ever said is tied for first place

"The moon is the most valuable tactical military ground. Rocks launched from there would have the force of 100 nukes" - brianna wu, a democratic candidate for congress. She lost, luckily.

That's a very difficult choice. There's been a lot of politicians throughout history, and some of them have said some terrifyingly dumb things.

[Howard Dean screaming in an odd fashion on stage during the 2004 Iowa Democratic Primary for President.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_scream) [Video of the Dean Scream](https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-the-dean-scream/3602686)

“It depends on what your definition of the word “is“. is.” -Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial.

Listen to DT on any given day. "Gulf of America" is right on up there.

In 1990, Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams made a controversial remark comparing bad weather to r***, stating, "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it." He lost.

Just look at the news and whatever the most recent thing Trump has said is about 70% likely to be it. 

Make America Great Again. Vote Trump.

The last thing tRump said.

Maybe it was the time Trump suggested beating COVID by using bleach or sunlight inside the body.

Deplorable. Cost her the Presidency.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Speeches\_by\_Donald\_Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Speeches_by_Donald_Trump)

We won the war.

Every day Trump says something dumber

Pick anything from the current

Donald Trump "They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?" suggesting we nuke hurricanes.

Peoplekind.  

The next thing Trump says. He works hard to top himself.

I don't know. I missed yesterday's press conference.

Everything to ever leave TACOs mouth but my favorite, which should have turned everyone, and I mean everyone with half a frecking brain.... "Smart people don't like me-" DJT

We will be out of Iran in 2-3 weeks

I have no idea - I haven’t been following the news today so I’m pretty far out of date.

Well Trump just said... Wait. He just surpassed that and said... Hang on. His next comment was even dumber. OK, so he... No, stop. He's still talking...

I dunno, what did Trump say today, and yesterday, and the day before that, etc?