what do you recommend?

This doesn’t make him clever....it just makes him manipulative. A clever man would see that his short term populism will lead to long term polarisation. A clever and skilled politician who wanted to be remembered as a great President would want to bring all sides together not drive them further apart.

@Marionville Again, he is not dumb, he just have different goals.
He is famous for being a predator investor, he knows that there will be always new people to buy into his stuff.
Yes there will be a crisis, maybe in his term, maybe in the next.
If on next he will blame the other guy, his supporters will believe.
If it is his he will blame the international market, china and all others that he is pissing off now, or he will go to some senseless war (as all american presidents before did).
In the end there will be always enough supporters for him to be rich famous and influential.
If you think he is thinking on the country, you are wrong, he is thinking on his image, he wants the power, when you start looking for this angle all his actions are relay clever and make sense.
And this makes him an awful and dangerous kind of leader, but an efficient one to get and keep its position of leader.

@Pedrohbds If he is thinking of his image he is not clever enough to realise that history will not be kind to him, quite the reverse. He is crafty not clever...if by clever we are talking about seeing the larger picture.

@Marionville Well, I don't know, if he creates enough division his supporters will double down anything you try to throw on him, so he will be in history with that contradictory guy that people swear it make good stuff and others say that it make bad stuff.
You muricans are not familiar with populism, we have a bunch of this guys below the equator...

@Pedrohbds Time will tell....but I predict that it will not be kind to him.

You are giving him way too much credit!

@lukostello don't attack never, the moment you attack the mind of the supporter closes and trump won already because no matter how the talk goes, he will have a more loyal supporter.
Understand that when you call trump dB you cause an emotional Rea tion on the supporter, what he understand is that he is dumb for being a supporter, and this makes a personal offense case. At this point he will believe in anything that aliviates this feeling.
By the end you can be satisfied by winning the rational discussion, but you only face more power to the president

@goldrose he is the fucking president, he makes your smart reporters give him free publicity, he monopolizes the media, he make awful things and getaway.
Creating this huge division and knowing that the opposition will try to mock him, he harness a huge amount of power from the supporters.
Or he is smart or he is the lucky eat guy in the world.

he may once have been smart, whether street-smart or otherwise, but he isn't smart now. he just isn't. he's ignorant, and to get to his age and be ignorant isn't smart. he is in deeper than he ever thought he would be and the more he wiggles the deeper he sinks. the smarts you see come from the villains who are holding his head above mud.

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which part is great: lowering taxes on the super-rich, thus raising the deficit, then letting his fellow republicans claim that they have to lower the deficit by cutting the social safety net? imprisoning LEGAL applicants for asylum, separating them from their children, then telling them they have to agree in writing to be deported if they ever want to see their kids again? letting almost three thousand american citizens die in puerto rico, throwing them paper towels as if that will solve their problems, and claiming that almost no one died there because he did such a good job? appointing as department heads only people who have gone on record as wanting to destroy those departments? demanding personal loyalty from people whose job is to protect the constitution, not him personally? or thinking there is a country called "nipple"?

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