How can Trump voters fall for his lies? How dumb do you have to be for Trump’s obvious, transparent phoniness to read as sincerity, for his bullshit to smell like roses?
This dumb:
Valerie Volcovici of Reuters went to coal country and found that workers there are widely rejecting offers of job retraining because they’re convinced Trump was telling them the truth about a comeback for coal.
In western Pennsylvania’s Greene and Washington counties, 120 people have signed up for jobs retraining outside the mines,; the target was 700. In Westmoreland and Fayette counties, participation in federal jobs retraining programs has been about 15% of capacity. The pattern repeats all over coal country.
“I have a lot of faith in President Trump,” said Mike Sylvester, 33, who passed up retraining in more than 100 fields for a course in coal mining. “I think there is a coal comeback.”
You can’t fix stupid.