re: Trump is intentionally looking unhinged.....

I get the argument you’re making—it’s basically the idea that acting a little “unhinged” can make adversaries think twice. If people on Facebook are saying “Trump is unhinged,” you could imagine Iranian officials thinking he might actually be unpredictable enough to follow through, and that could create some deterrence. There’s a version of that logic that makes sense on the surface.

But there’s also a real “what if” here. What if the recent irrationality and the sharp 180 on foreign policy goals aren’t a strategy at all? When you combine that with what looks like a growing disconnect from his own base—who are loudly focused on affordability—and even side obsessions like things such as a White House ballroom, it can start to feel less like calculated unpredictability and more like something else entirely. Some people would look at that pattern and see not “brilliance,” but a sign he could be mentally deteriorating. Even if that’s not the case, it risks creating confusion abroad and frustration at home, which is a pretty unstable mix.

Good lord people

Yall really think Trump is acting insane on purpose? “Oh he’s just playing 4 chess”.

Snap back into reality and think for yourselves

Israel has him by the balls

frick trump.

If nothing else, Trump knows people. He can read a room or situation.

He's spent his whole life winning, while simultaneously making so many people think he lost. He simply doesn't care how things APPEAR. He cares about achieving whatever it is that he's trying to achieve. In the case of this war, the media will crucify him for years. Even while living in a world that is free of Iranians with nukes or any other type of real power of influence.

I haven't read his book, but I'd imagine that in a nutshell, that IS the art of the deal. To get what you want, while the other guy thinks he took advantage of you. You rarely get every single thing you wanted. They key is to get enough, or even most of what you wanted, while making the other party feel as though they've won. Opinions of those who are uninvolved simply don't matter to him.

True. But it won’t work on religious fanatics that are truly unhinged and hopelessly delusional. Like the Democrats their Morality-based imperative and ego will not let them escape the delusion.

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Good lord people

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O.k., sure.

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Yall really think Trump is acting insane on purpose? “Oh he’s just playing 4 chess”.

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Yep, I'm with you.

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Snap back into reality and think for yourselves

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No problem there.

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Israel has him by the balls

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And then that.

I feel like I just listed to someone rebutting a group of Flat Earthers, explaining why the Earth couldn't be flat from a physics standpoint, why the weather wouldn't work they way they claim it would in a flat biosphere, why gravity wouldn't work that way, and then have them conclude with, "Everybody knows that the Earth is a sphere, sitting on top of the back of an infinite regress of giant turtles."

My boy is a very stable genius.

He is certainly making some of his supporters scratch their heads.

Im not sure it's intentional. Too many contradictions.

I think it’s intentional hope it works

The problem is that this act works better with allies who have a very vested interest in getting along with us anyway- and Trump’s rhetoric and mentality are just unstable enough that it pushes them over the edge.

But with Iran - they don’t have some secondary incentive to play ball - it’s purely adversarial right now and i see no reason they wouldn’t just keep calling his bluff on it.

Correct