President Ronald Reagan called it nearly 40 years ago.
Sometimes the best strategy in a negotiation is convincing the other side that you are crazy.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 3, 2025
Now that would legitimately be Trump playing 3D Chess.
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Despite the fact President Donald Trump likely believes a good number of the untrue things he says, I'm convinced there's another facet to his ramblings. Specifically, he'll say something that is so outlandish that not even he believes it but he knows it'll get a rise out of his top adversaries in the prog media.
Hence the headline from an NBC News story this past Sunday:
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so.
All the media would have to do in this case is roll their collective eyes and cite the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Instead, several "think pieces" and prog podcasts have wasted countless words on how Trump is some authoritarian mad man hellbent on upending our Constitutional order. And it wouldn't shock me in the least if Trump himself were sitting back and laughing his orange arse off at all the leftist flailing that has ensued, as if that were his endgame all along.
As Erick Erickson notes, this collective freak out just underscores the left's lack of faith in our institutional controls.
