Originally posted by Surtur
It's less Tim saying Trump is truly intelligent and more talking about how gullible people are to constantly take the bait of Trumps trolling. Tim correctly points out that the media spent the week melting down over tweets that impact nobody while not focusing very much on policy decisions that have real world impacts:Trump administration announces major crackdown on asylum seekers
I think most of the time Trump doesn't do shit like this on purpose and he just stumbles into it, but I do think sometimes he does take advantage of the media.
However, I don't think doing that requires one have above average intelligence.
I think just the opposite. Trump usually knows beforehand the things he says and tweets will help him in the end. He rarely "stumbles" into something, imo. More often than not, he knows what he's doing. He just puts on a clown act sometimes; it makes people underestimate him which is exactly what he wants. He is very cunning.