When you start to have an IQ up in the 160s, you have to wonder why you would ever want to be President of the United States in the first place. Thomas Jefferson seemed to do pretty okay in office, all things considered, so maybe it’s a more attractive position than we realize.
What does it mean to have a 173 IQ? It means that you’re smarter than 99.999943% of all people who are alive at the same time that you are, which is impressive in and of itself - even when you take the fact that you’re also President of the United States out of the equation.
George W. Bush seems to have developed a reputation over the years for being one of the dumbest presidents ever to hold office. Sure, some of that is earned - he wasn’t exactly the world’s best public speaker, and he did have a tendency to invent words and say things that were pretty meaningless when you really stop to think about them. The whole “Invading Iraq” thing is now agreed in hindsight to be something that wasn’t well thought out, we’ll give you that. But when you learn that George W. Bush has an IQ of 125, you can’t help but go “What? Really? THAT George W. Bush? Huh. Alright, then.”
