It’s kind of both. Trump is a moron and some of what he does is failing and he doesn’t understand why, but some of it is also working exactly like he planned. Trump is and always has been a conman. He is not a businessman, he is a conman. That’s a very critical thing to understand. Everything he does is a grift of some kind, it’s his default operating mode.
Every action he takes he intends to either enrich himself or attack someone he doesn’t like. He never does anything that will benefit someone else unless he sees some way in which he can also benefit. He will always opt for the scummiest solution to any problem because he likes to feel like he “tricked” someone or got one over on them, that it somehow proves he’s a brilliant businessman. He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.
He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.
which actually, if you look at how “great businessmen” from history had amassed their fortunes, isn’t that far from the truth. It’s not exactly right, but it’s not exactly wrong, either. Someone was always getting fucked in the process, it was usually just their employees instead of their business partners.
It’s kind of both. Trump is a moron and some of what he does is failing and he doesn’t understand why, but some of it is also working exactly like he planned. Trump is and always has been a conman. He is not a businessman, he is a conman. That’s a very critical thing to understand. Everything he does is a grift of some kind, it’s his default operating mode.
Every action he takes he intends to either enrich himself or attack someone he doesn’t like. He never does anything that will benefit someone else unless he sees some way in which he can also benefit. He will always opt for the scummiest solution to any problem because he likes to feel like he “tricked” someone or got one over on them, that it somehow proves he’s a brilliant businessman. He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.
which actually, if you look at how “great businessmen” from history had amassed their fortunes, isn’t that far from the truth. It’s not exactly right, but it’s not exactly wrong, either. Someone was always getting fucked in the process, it was usually just their employees instead of their business partners.