Little method
Not surprisingly, many European leaders have decided Trump is not so much a calculating enemy as an out of control lunatic moron.
Trump’s wildly unpredictable performance over two days in Brussels left many European leaders convinced that there is little method to the American president’s rhetorical madness, and simply no way to anticipate what he might do next.
“Nobody knows when Trump is doing international diplomacy and when he is doing election campaigning in Montana,” Danish defense minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said. “It is difficult to decode what policy the American president is promoting. There is a complete unpredictability in this, and one of the things you need in this alliance is predictability towards Russia.”
Well that’s what you get when a real estate promoter slash reality tv personality with zero education or experience in any field relevant to government gets himself elected president of the US, all the more so when the huckster refuses to learn anything at all even after getting elected.
When a Croatian journalist confronted Trump about his inconsistencies, the president flatly denied there were any, and he repeated a defense of his own sanity that he had made when previously questioned about his fitness for the presidency.
“We understand your message, but some people ask themselves, will you be tweeting differently once you board the Air Force One?” the reporter said.
Trump, speaking at his news conference before leaving the summit, replied: “No, that’s other people that do that. I don’t. I’m very consistent. I’m a very stable genius.”
But of course he does do that, he just did it at the G 7 meeting a couple of weeks ago.
But leaders who spent the first 18 months of Trump’s presidency thinking there might be a method to his chaos creation — and struggling to discern what it might be — now seem to have concluded that it’s just chaos, and that Trump himself may not understand what he’s doing.
While Washington has long ago grown numb to Trump’s unrelenting mayhem, the president’s two days of undulations in Brussels, rolling between enraged criticism and boastful, happy proclamations, left many leaders feeling queasy.
His bouncing makes them seasick.
Us too.
A senior NATO official said leaders had concluded that they simply could not rely on anything Trump said.
“You know the way he speaks, you cannot take him literally,” the official said.
A short summary of that is ” he is a liar.”
Good start. Now if our political analysts could figure that out and stop trying to decode him as if he is a clever strategist, a savvy political player, or even a grown up…we might get somewhere. He is not playing 3D chess, or anything else that involves strategy. He is just blurting out his own brain farts.
Yes, but his brain farts are consistently pro-authoritarian and pro-Putin. I can’t imagine he’d have met with nearly so much success if he seemed both so malign and in control of himself. Repubs rejected Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney. I guess Americans like their hatred to feel spontaneous rather than calculated.
Yes, that’s true, of course, but if we continue analyzing his brain farts as if they can fit into a standard political analysis, and as if they have some sort of grand strategy behind them, we might miss the most important thing – America has become unhinged.
Well hi there,
I’m just baack :-)
Maybe this has been addressed multiple times already, but when I see him boasting
I just can’t help thinking about the other kind of (smarter) inhabitants of stables. Information overload perhaps.
Hej!
“Der Führer is a little horse” // Chaplin on the phone, The Dictator