President Trump wants you to know today: he's an extremely stable genius. So folks, don't worry. He understands what he's doing with the tariffy thing with China. He has understood tariffs and China for decades now. Why? Because he has been and is an extremely stable genius. How many more times does he have to tell you that, America?
Don't forget the stable part of stable genius. Trump wants to assure you so much that he's stable, and not unstable, that he felt obligated today to have some of his very stablest staff (including Larry Kudlow, Kellyanne Conway, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders) publicly vouch that he was in fact acting very cool and calm yesterday when he stomped out of a meeting with Pelosi and Schumer. In fact he did his It's-Your-Turn-To-Praise-Me shtick that we all know so well.
In a remarkable scene, the president proceeded to name-check senior White House staff and advisers in the Roosevelt Room whom he said had attended Wednesday’s session on infrastructure initiatives with top congressional Democrats — which Trump abandoned after declaring that the lawmakers could not simultaneously negotiate legislation while investigating and threatening to impeach him.
“Kellyanne, what was my temperament yesterday?” Trump asked White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
“Very calm. No tamper tantrum,” she replied before criticizing journalists’ coverage of the meeting, which Trump has complained portrayed him with a "rage narrative."
When it was Sarah Huckabee Sanders's turn to dutifully witness to the Most Stablest's extremely stable demeanor, she smiled sheepishly (at 5:48 minutes below), both embarrassed and giddy at the same time, to be able have the chance to once again lie for her Leader in public, but this time with his standing just feet away.
Of course, when Trump has to get his employees to publicly praise his stable genius-ness with the cameras rolling, it makes the rest of America feel certain that he is, in fact, extremely unstable and very stupid. Trump's use of the term Stable Genius itself has become a trope. The top definition for stable genius in the Urban Dictionary is stupid. And here is Randy Rainbow's musical take on Trump's stable genius.