Trump: Smart people Don't Like Me

John Stuart-Mills:

In reply to an attack made upon him by Sir John Pakington for calling the Conservative party “the stupid party,” Mill, admitting the phrase to occur in his Representative Government, went on to say, “I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party. I know that I am liable to a retort, and an obvious one enough; and as I do not wish to allow any honorable gentleman the credit of making it, I make it myself. It may be said that if stupidity has a tendency to Conservatism, sciolism, or half-knowledge, has a tendency to Liberalism. Something might be said for that, but it is not at all so clear as the other. There is an uncertainty about sciolists; we cannot count upon them; and therefore they are a less dangerous class. But there is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power”.

My advice to young Americans: Stay away from conservative ideas and people, lest you are perceived as stupid. Instead, mingle with Democrats and other smart people and you'll be perceived as smart and intelligent. It does make sense. 

You see, those humanoid primates who evolved into the super-intelligent Homo sapiens species tend to be Democrats. They decided to shed their tails, climb down from the trees, use their now free hands to make tools, use language and grow their brains as they moved in the savannah. 

In contrast, those who refused to change, and chose to remain hanging from the trees by their tails and their hands tend to be conservatives; they were comfortable with their stupidity because it required very little thinking. They chose to "conserve" their innate stupidity and did not want to evolve. That is why it is so much easier for conservative "leaders" to lie and fool their herds into believing anything as long as it does not require too much thinking. 

That fork in human evolution is what led the human population to split along two lines: Stupid Conservatives and Smart Progressives. 

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Did Trump say ‘smart people don’t like me?’
Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY
Updated Tue, September 16, 2025

A video showing President Donald Trump saying "smart people don't like me" is going viral on social media.

The shortened clip was posted to X by anti-Trump account PatriotTakes on Sept. 14 and garnered more than nine million views as of the morning of Sept. 16.

The footage appears to be from a private fundraiser at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey. A longer version of the video shows Trump going on to discuss the suspect in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

When asked about the video, the White House doubled down on Trump's comments and blamed the left for Kirk's death. Authorities investigating the case have not yet confirmed the shooter's motive.

Did Trump say, 'smart people don't like me?'

A video posted to Facebook and Instagram by Nicole Kiprilov shows Trump saying this. Her post indicates he was speaking at a gala for Hope Through Education when he made the remarks.

Kiprilov is a Republican strategist, according to her social media profiles.

"Smart people don't like me," Trump said in the video, receiving a wave of laughs from the room. The context before this comment was not included in the clip posted to social media. Kiprilov told USA TODAY she did not exactly recall what Trump said before the clip started.

"And they don't like what we talk about but he's become radicalized. So many things have been learned about him so quickly," Trump continued in the video. "He's become totally radicalized and crazy and it must have been traumatic because the parents are conservative people supposed to be very nice people living in Utah and the father turns in the son. Boy that's a tough deal. I actually asked somebody in the FBI. How often does that happen where knowing even the guilt that a father will turn in or parents will turn in the son and he said 'almost never.'"

USA TODAY also reached out to Hope Through Education for this story.

Trump blames Charlie Kirk's killing on left. Political violence affects both sides

Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, grew up in Utah and was a former straight-A student. USA TODAY previously reported Robinson was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from a young age, though neighbors said he rarely went to services in previous years. Officials say more information about Robinson's potential motive could be released when he is formally charged. Law enforcement also said he held a "leftist ideology" and became increasingly political in recent years.

“President Trump is right," White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement to USA TODAY when asked about the viral video. "For years, radical leftists have slandered their political opponents as Nazis and Fascists, inspiring left-wing violence like the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

Trump officials have also threatened to go after left-leaning groups over the shooting.

In some of his remarks on the shooting, Trump has not mentioned other instances of political voilence that targeted the left, like an arson attack at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s house, a kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and the death of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman who was shot to death in her home along with her husband and dog earlier this summer.