numbskull

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"Numbskull", "moron", "a real dummy" are just some of the criticisms Trump levelled at Powell when talking to the media.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

But when, in 1968, Congress passed the Numbskull Act requiring all male adults to have these receivers surgically implanted, brother, that did it!

From Time Magazine Archive

And they made the old captain pull down the light that he had been burning steady and true, and the Government sot up that thar newfangled thing a flashing by clockwork on Numbskull Nob.

From Killykinick by Waggaman, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)

‘I can’t go off in peace with that devilish thing of Numbskull Nob a winking at me.’

From Killykinick by Waggaman, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)

And thus it was that Mister Numbskull spent his days, dodging his neighbors, sidestepping the highways and obscuring himself from the very individual he wanted so much to behold—Opportunity.

From Laugh and Live by Fairbanks, Douglas