Anne Applebaum4d ago
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Everyone but Trump Understands...
Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done

Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

The Atlantic
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@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

And this is who people still defend

I think he doesn’t understand the consequences-not because he doesn’t know any better or knows at all or is dumb-but because he simply doesn’t care

If he accomplishes his goals before he is forced to revert it back or consequences happen to him or before his presidency ends then he won’t care

If he does it before he is forced to leave his position then he won’t care

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@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

And he’ll die before it affects him

Show threadWesDym3d ago
@cheezybuffet It's some of all of that. He really is extremely stupid, and astonishingly ignorant, about a great many things. (He thinks that stealth jets are LITERALLY invisible, for example, and he STILL thinks that tariffs are paid by other countries.) He doesn't belong in or near any office of any responsibility or consequence. His enablers know that, but THEY don't care, because his cult popularity brings them power and riches. It really is that awful.
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@wesdym yes that is also true

He doesn’t know enougj to be in tbag position and too ignorant to rule (what is practically a hiarchy now) USA

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*enough *that