A few days ago there were ten threads about how Trump is a completely inept madman who is making a series of poorly conceived moves that will absolutely devastate the economy and capital markets.
Now he's a brilliant market manipulator who's making better chess moves than Magnus Carlsen.
These unhinged posters can't even keep it consistent for a week.
I’m surprised when I see you dudes post stuff like this. Didn’t you go to Stanford? Trump is highly unintelligent. He couldn’t tell you where Ecuatorial Guinea is or how to find a secant line, but he’s not dumb. You don’t become president twice being “dumb,” on some random happenstance—Forrest Gump shyt.
He‘s savvy enough to play up his unintelligence because he knows it makes people underestimate him. He was literally underestimated in 2016, after he lost the election in 2020, after the Project 2025 stuff came out. Hell, people still underestimate him now despite this. It’s like Michael Moore said, if we’re talking about strictly in the realm wickedness and being a con-man, Trump is a genius. If there was a con-test—Trump would score off the charts.
Trump is a generational con-man. He’s not smart but he’s not dumb either, and its easy to conflate the two when you have a high-level con-man masquerading as president.