Well no wonder he and Trump get along so well. Both think they are so incredibly smart that when they think of something in a field they are largely unfamiliar with, they immediately believe that they are the first people to have ever considered it and that they need to share this revelation with existing experts in the field. Keep in mind here the issue is not that they were unfamiliar with all of the history and details in a field they knew little about; no one could be; but the reasonable action would be to assume some work had been done on the subject in 99.9% of the cases and that people who may happen to know more than you in that particular field already took some level of action on the subject, and to investigate yourself a little bit further; the unreasonable action is to have so little intellectual curiosity and understanding of the scope in these areas that you assume you are the first person to have ever thought about this and not even bother to look or care if others already have.
It's like when mail-in voting became more popular in 2020 and Trump said there would be no way to tell if people voting in person already voted by mail. Like that wasn't the first fucking thing they thought of ~30 years ago when they got mail-in voting systems up and running in multiple states.
