re: #314 Scottish Dragon

No, I do think it is a strategy of a sort. He has always been a sadist and he likes shoving this sort of thing into other people’s faces…like his affairs being on NY tabloids etc. Also, it is a hallmark of authoritarianism to flaunt power over the impotence of the people and remind them of their place.

Trump’s Every Move Is Brilliant and Calculated

Alexandra Petri: “For the last time, this is all part of the plan. Getting himself impeached is actually a strategic triumph for President Trump, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just not playing chess in enough dimensions. Consider what is the greater mark of strategic genius: to mire yourself and your administration in an endless series of idiotic and pointless controversies, often rife with misspellings, damaging your standing at home and abroad, or to NOT do that? If you say the second, you are a fool. This is all part of the plan. Actually, this is good. Actually, this is great.”

“I repeat, every move that Trump makes, has made or is making, currently, with the president of Finland sitting helplessly by his side, wearing an expression of alarm, is planned. It is a genius plan. It might look like the random, haphazard flailing of a cat that has gotten its head stuck in a bucket. But actually he is in total control.”

(yes, it’s satire)