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Kruglanski’s view, a craving for certainty drives much more of our decision-making than any of us want to believe or admit, and times of crisis and polarization only serve to ratchet up our craving for that certainty.īorn in Poland in 1939 - a bad year everywhere, of course, but murderously abysmal in Poland - and raised in a Jewish ghetto, Dr. He has crafted a theory of what he calls “lay epistemics,” i.e., the study of how individual thoughts create subjective knowledge. Because here’s the thing: whether we consider ourselves conservative or liberal, radical right or radical left or middle of the road, very few of us ever change our minds once we’ve settled on what we believe is the truth about an issue, scandal or public figure.Īrie Kruglanski, a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, has spent much of his decades-long career examining the ways in which people form beliefs and judgments.

If Donald Trump’s routine debasement of the Oval Office has not chipped away at his popularity among his hardcore fans, no amount of prodding, cajoling or accurate, triple-sourced reporting will change their minds. Let’s focus, instead, on a more pressing reality: namely, the unlikelihood of the president’s backers ever “converting” to the anti-Trump camp. So what? Fake news! Build a wall! Trucks! Trucks!īut, okay, just … forget all that. That shit is for ivory-tower eggheads and losers who pretend to like “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” So we can’t spell.

See? We’re not all that interested in books or history or foreigners. It’s almost enough to make a fake-news junkie believe that Trump and his pals are intentionally making themselves look lazy and dim-witted, as a kind of smirking pledge to their proudly incurious base: Or with my personal favorite (so far): Trump and the RNC paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln by tweeting out a dreadful, saccharine, fridge-magnet quote and wrongly (of course) attributing it to the 16th president. With an obvious typo on Trump’s official inauguration poster? Du Bois’s name in a Department of Education tweet?

Trump’s first two months in office, where should we begin? With the misspelling of N.A.A.C.P. As for the litany of cringe-worthy mistakes and miscues that have characterized Mr. There are so many, ranging from the asinine to the near-sublime, that we probably won’t miss any genuine whoppers if we ignore the president’s unrelenting dishonesty for a few minutes. Let’s forget, for a little while, about Donald Trump’s lies. As the product description accompanying it previously read, it " captures the essence of Trump's campaign." Trump has an extensive history of misspelling or misusing words on Twitter, including: " unpresidented," "rediculous," "shoker," and "dummer." In 2016, Trump's supporters were also found to have the worst spelling and grammar skills among the voter bases of 19 candidates, making an average of nearly 13 mistakes per 100 words.None of Us Will Change Our Minds About Trump or any Other Fucking Thing Arie Kruglanski and the rigidity of belief. While it's unlikely that Trump himself made the typo, it's actually fitting that his inauguration poster would include one. A typo-free version is available on the Celebrating America website, though. The poster, which was being sold by the Library of Congress, was removed from the library's online shop after going viral and becoming the subject of widespread jokes on social media. Nothing we want for the future is beyond our reach." - with the incorrect usage of the word "to" where "too" was needed. It features a Trump quote - "No dream is too big, no challenge is to great. The latest example? Donald Trump's newly-unveiled inauguration poster contains a typo. It's like those in charge of running even the smallest affairs related to the new president don't feel the inclined to make any effort.