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Even I, the most indefatigable Trump-hater on Planet E, am wearying of talking about this man but I wanted to put the following down on “paper”:

Trump isn’t playing “4D chess,” and he isn’t “playing chess while others play checkers.” Nor, I’d wager my own personal net worth on, does he even know how to play chess. Or checkers. Or Go Fish! Or anything that requires higher-order thinking. This is [one of my] least favorite things to hear, because it feels so screamingly obvious to me that it is untrue. I describe Trump thusly:

He is an amoeba. His forethought extends only to his immediate, graspable vicinity. He can sense what’ll profit him, whether monetarily or reputationally, in only the most nearsighted, one-step way. Forget if what earns him +1pt today loses him -2pts tomorrow. That is tomorrow’s problem; he is a blind mole rat with a child’s faculty for immediate/delayed gratification. He is, admittedly, incredibly good at surviving by striking blindly in the direction of “food,” but so too is an amoeba.

UPDATE: Saw a TikTok of a girl making this same point but in 1/10th the time and thus infinitely better. She said [paraphrased]: “Oh he’s playing chess? He’s playing 4D chess? HE’S EATING THE PIECES.”