I always see people commenting that Trump is stupid or dumb, and doesnāt understand what heās doing. I have to disagree.
In a way Trump is an idiot savant ā heās not intelligent in the sense of being able to make logical connections or understand history or analyze patterns. But heās extremely good at reading people to know how best to manipulate them. He has the same skills a sociopathic criminal or a con man has. Itās a sort of low cunning rather than what we think of as āintelligence,ā but when someone is as good at it as Trump is, theyāre very dangerous because they arenāt constrained by the normal human boundaries of empathy.
Everything Trump says and does is for one goal only: to benefit Trump, and secondarily his family. Although I suspect if push came to shove heād toss his family overboard to save himself in a heartbeat.