Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person." in the context of "Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018, Business Insider, 22 April 2022 April 2022 Dictor: Okay. And you said that, ‘If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them would you.’ That was your statement? Trump: Oh, yeah. It was very dangerous. Dictor: What was very dangerous? Trump: We were threatened. Dictor: With what? Trump: They were going to throw fruit. We were threatened. We had a threat. Dictor: How did you become aware that there was a threat that people were going to throw fruit? Trump: We were told. I thought Secret Service was involved in that, actually. And you get hit with fruit, it’s – no – it’s very violent stuff. We were on alert for that.Trump attorney Jeffrey Goldman: A tomato is a fruit after all, I guess. … It has seeds. Trump: It’s worse than a tomato, it’s other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it’s very dangerous. There was an alert out that day. Dictor: Who were you speaking to when you said … Trump: The audience. Dictor: So you were speaking to the audience when you said if they saw someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you? Trump: That was to the audience. It was said sort of in jest. Buy maybe, you know, a little truth to it. It’s very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things. … I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than – tomatoes are bad by the way. But it’s very dangerous … they were going to hit – they were going to hit very hard. “So I got a little notice, in case you’re seeing these security guys — we have wonderful security guys,” Trump said at the Iowa rally. “They said, ‘Mr. Trump, there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience.’ So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay?”" to mean that wisdom is timeless.