Trump’s favorite excuse in 2025: “I don’t know”

Photo: President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday, November 16, 2025, en route Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Opinion article by Amanda Marcotte. Salon – December 22, 2025.

Donald Trump is too slow to pick up on important information and too lazy to learn. No, this is not the assessment of some #Resistance holdover posting 20 times a day on Bluesky. As 2025 comes to a close, this is the message that the White House wants most dearly for the public to absorb: The most powerful man in the world is far too dim to be held responsible to the nation he was elected to lead. Trump loves to brag about how he passed — or so he says — the test doctors use to screen for dementia. But when he is asked about anything harder and more politically fraught than “can you draw a clock?” or “is this a picture of a duck?,” the president is always quick with his favorite go-to answer: “I don’t know.” […]

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