Every word of this Jamelle. Now let’s ask why so many leaders in media, business and politics who should be sophisticated enough to see this, keep insisting that Trump is pursuing a “strategy”? - ThreadSky

sifill.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Every word of this Jamelle.

Now let’s ask why so many leaders in media, business and politics who should be sophisticated enough to see this, keep insisting that Trump is pursuing a “strategy”?

Reposted from jamelle

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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klynner.bsky.social•5 days ago

Great piece. Not sure I would have written, "...is a winner." Wording such as, "Only supports his view of a winner's stance," might be more truthful with all his bankruptcies.

medic1983.bsky.social•5 days ago

He's joyful at being able to cause manipulation with just a tweet. More kissing the ring.

rozinwonderland.bsky.social•5 days ago

They want what he has.

richardthunderbay.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's hard not to think of this movie scene...

I don't see any method at all, sir....

https://youtu.be/3SbLKl4C5Rw?si=-ITxL0PGzoh2bqUT

informedalarmist.bsky.social•5 days ago

He confuses trade deficits and budget deficits.

beege4.bsky.social•5 days ago

Maybe because they don’t want to wind up in El Salvador?

datamule.bsky.social•5 days ago

As my quote-a-day calendar told me years ago, "It is not enough to succeed; others must fail."

adamtexdavis.bsky.social•5 days ago

Except he’s a fucking loser.

bjmcgee.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sorry, gotta disagree vehemently. The plan is all on paper. Even the reason he wants Greenland. Project 2025. You should really read it.

joestutler.bsky.social•5 days ago

His relationships are merely transactional. The poor bastard has never known love.

latchkey-grama.bsky.social•5 days ago

Nobody has to wonder why.

sikntyrd70.bsky.social•5 days ago

The inability to feel love, much less show it is the trait of a psychopath.

See Dr. Robert Hare’s PCL-R: Psychopathy Check List-Revised.

https://psychopathsinlife.com/psychopath-checklist-traits/

fabmsp.bsky.social•5 days ago

THANK. YOU.

isammis.bsky.social•5 days ago

Isn’t that just cognitive dissonance? They pushed for Trump, donated to his campaign, and moved heaven and earth to elect him.

He’s now doing idiotic things.

So, they have to either question their own intelligence and culpability for wrecking the country, or pretend that Trump is a secret genius.

milescarter.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Party of Business—But Which Business?
https://thehumanaiview.blog/2025/04/11/the-party-of-business-but-which-business/

peachyinnj.bsky.social•5 days ago

They should have been sophisticated enough to see this in 2015.

All of the information was there.

cld9vineyard.bsky.social•5 days ago

He is delusional and believes he alone knows what the right thing to do. Not the economists or scholars.

blake105.bsky.social•5 days ago

As a “non-leader” of anything and a simple consumer of news, I really wish I knew the answer.

I have NEVER understood this even in his NY Post and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous days.

The guy is just a creepy criminal. A guy most people would avoid at a party. A guy you would never hire.

ericgril.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3lmf626ufg22h

jemartinez.bsky.social•5 days ago

Disagree that there’s no plan—we just can’t accept it—but agree with the conclusion that Trump is purely self-serving:

71columbus.bsky.social•5 days ago

The American people are sick to death with this - somebody better stop this now - we are cratering fast

atomoyama.bsky.social•5 days ago

Isn't the strategy to crash the stock market, advise the oligarchs on when to buy up, then pause tariffs in the afternoon so they all get richer when the stocks go back up?

leonceg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cuz he's white and white people think white people are smart.

resist77.bsky.social•5 days ago

He is pathological. Petulant. No master mind here.

reggiewallinsky.bsky.social•5 days ago

Simple! They make money of of him. Let’s stop navel-gazing and form an effective defense of democracy.

joyupnorth.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s the worst case of groupthink in history.

meandmissmandible.bsky.social•5 days ago

Pitch perfect. JBouie has been exactly on point when it comes to Trump 2.0.

elliskatz.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cognitive dissonance. They can't accept that they supported someone who is irrational. They all pride themselves on their intelligence (which in western world is denoted by "rationality" - even tho' humans are not fully rational) & they cannot accept that they were unable to discern what was obvious

underworldneo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump is claiming that the MSM is working for an opposition political party & influencing judges to block his executive orders

From this the logic that resistance to his executive tyranny should be illegal

The path of the narcissist, drunk on the power of leadership idolatry, is fascist.

underworldneo.bsky.social•5 days ago

The sociopathy was learnt in the home, where faith was only of utility where it empowers success

Trump adopted the family Trump brand (surname changed from Drumpf) approach

Marketing himself as someone successful to impress his father & get the business estate

underworldneo.bsky.social•5 days ago

He learnt the Roy Cohn way of winning by being the alpha male (a background working for the right during the HUAC era, the one the secular left & (out) homosexuals would fear

One of DJT's idols was Joseph Wharton (he met the Kaiser), a pro tariff wall isolationist, of that era of oligarchy

Autarky

annakopita.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes. AND he's a dumb delusional megalomaniac (with a good amount of sadist thrown in).

jminer.bsky.social•5 days ago

As many have pointed out, nothing he does makes sense, unless you accept he is a Russian agent. Then literally everything makes sense. He’s not smart enough to know how best to destroy our country, but Putin certainly is.

dek1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Denial, wishful thinking, obeying in advance, a mix

bsarrr.bsky.social•5 days ago

DJT is a weirdo and a wanabe dictator! https://dictatorsayswhat.com/

thiafin.bsky.social•5 days ago

LOL...well his "strategy" obviously is to tank the American economy. The word is meaningless and they want to avoid assigning meaning to it and not explain what the said strategy is.

majortom70.bsky.social•5 days ago

See what y’all did last week end? These MFers coming for our protest! It is ON!

https://apple.news/AnH60WFfTTQy3U7gKHLK7hQ

aikilizzy.bsky.social•5 days ago

They insist there is a "strategy" because they are terrified. This moment exposes them for what they are, naked emperors, ordinary people with no power to change what's happening, no special inside knowledge. They can't bear that. So they obfuscate, fantasize, and lie. All caught on camera!

lexikav.bsky.social•5 days ago

His only power is because they all defer their power to him. If they take it back, he is no more dangerous than the drunk uncle at Thanksgiving

tinkerbaby.bsky.social•5 days ago

Convicted Felon tRump has no strategy. He has tertiary syphilis that is eating his brain. Another thing in common with the late great Al Capone.

maryvarshini108.bsky.social•5 days ago

So good!

carolnorris.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is 🎯🎯🎯.

I don't believe leaders, sophisticated or not, think he has a strategy.

I think they've sold their souls and they say it to curry favor or to attempt not to be targeted. They say it because they're cowards.

rockpapersissors.bsky.social•5 days ago

During confirmation of all his cabinet members, they too, all climbed on the hypothetical bandwagon and wouldn't answer questions.

21cpedagogy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because it’s really difficult for white men in particular to admit they were/are wrong.

rvaux16.bsky.social•5 days ago

The totality of it goes back to the "Obama was born in Kenya" lie at the minimum. From then until now, everything -- with all of the obvious exit ramps every step of the way as he was literally killing people -- is on them. So they double down, like proper cowards, and here we are.

hopefulbob.bsky.social•5 days ago

Classic ego belief: "If you have something, you took it from me."

cathcrawfd.bsky.social•5 days ago

Everybody needs to read anything they can find about Narcissists when their faculties are failing. They get boiled down to their essence and their worst traits (they see them as their glorious triumphs) get repeated and repeated.

kavism.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Emperor's Daring Clothes Setting High Standards For Fashion in Washington

indepinla.bsky.social•5 days ago

Media is a combination of scared and bought off.

clemgrakata.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because any other framing would be tantamount to an admission of guilt given how damn near every media executive knowingly and willfully helped Trump and the Republicans seize power.

If there's one thing about our executive class, its that they never take responsibility for anything.

angrygrrrl1111.bsky.social•5 days ago

I honestly think it's denial driven by fear. Because the thought that the most powerful man in the world is both stupid and crazy is absolutely terrifying.

clbergpowers.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also, that even if he was (he is not), that having a strategy would somehow make it likely to be successful or good for anyone but himself. Anyone who looks at this man after the last 40 years and says "just hold on, he knows what he's doing" is unserious for a variety of reasons.

rarebirdcreativ.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes ~ He ENJOYS inflicting pain on others. DJT is an abuser, a psychopath.

Domination/subjugation, is his ONLY joy💀 and modus operandi - in life, relationships, biz, and in the office of president.

He will never swerve or deviate from this. This is who he is.

And lying his deflection.

mpmamajama.bsky.social•5 days ago

Excellent piece.

ejcon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Project 2025ers want Vance as President,Trump/Musk is their puppet,within the next 3 months you will hear about ”Trump is loosening it"we don’t want a “Biden". There are over 200 2025ers in Trumps admin.Trump fell for the trap, project 2025 never been happier. As they say "onwards".

beadjunky18.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is the kool-aid.

womble58.bsky.social•5 days ago

He is completely pursuing a strategy. Putin’s strategy. It’s not a spy novel. It’s reality.

notafanoftrump.bsky.social•5 days ago

They’re terrified Trump will go after them if they say anything negative. It’s hard to fathom how contagious cowardice really is

akasunday.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because they believe he will make them rich. The same twisted, delusional reason why poor Americans - even the minorities and immigrants he despises - voted for him. HE WILL MAKE THEM RICH.

tangibullah.bsky.social•5 days ago

That saying, "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" has an unfortunate corollary...

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