President Trump using the crazy guy strategy

Is the president acting crazy on purpose?

Lately we’ve seen swarm of feuds with Democrats, Republicans, NFL Players, the Mayor of San Juan, and on “Meet The Press” it prompted panelist Danielle Pletka to go off on Mr. Trump. She called his Administration the “Definition of dysfunctional government” and then added, “This is America jumping the shark.”

I had to stop and think about that. Was she saying the American national sitcom has run its course? That we’re about to be cancelled?

I looked up her bio. It turns out she’s not a liberal as you might expect. She was described in the “Washington Post” as a “stanch conservative with a caustic manner.”

And she says “America is jumping the shark.”

Which would be sad!

So I began desperately searching for some counterpoint, some nugget of insight to reassure myself that there was still hope for this country, and I found it on Axios.com.

It was an exclusive piece indicating that the president actually knows exactly what he’s doing.

According to Axios, during a conversation in the Oval office a few weeks ago, the president gave some advice to one of his trade negotiators.

He said that the way you get concessions is to tell the other guy that “the President is so crazy he could pull out any minute.”

And then you’ll get a quick deal.

So that must be what’s going o: the “crazy guy strategy.”

I just wish there weren’t so many other leaders trying the same thing.

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