Perhaps, given the president's level of intellectual curiosity, he heard Russian "troll farm" on cable news and assumed these trolls were similar to those gentle creatures in the 2016 DreamWorks animated film "Trolls." But these Russian trolls are not adorable figurines with colorful hair, and their attack on the United States cannot be answered with hugs. These trolls paid actual Americans to attend rallies. They bought ads to allege that Clinton "committed voter fraud." They manipulated the Black Lives Matter movement by creating groups and accounts such as "Blacktivist" and "Woke Blacks," attempting to persuade African-Americans to support the Green Party's Jill Stein or not to vote rather than "to vote Killary." The Russians even had the nerve to charge real Americans to post promotional material on the phony accounts.