Hi all!
Donald Trump is an intuitive genius, and if you don't understand this, you will never stop him.
To be clear, he's only an intuitive genius in a very narrow area, but unfortunately, it is the only one that matters - he is an intuitive genius at using his common sense, best judgment, intuition and instincts to target the common sense, best judgment, intuition and instincts (intuitive thought process) of the American population. And he is superior at this than any known current US politician or media person.
He's also not a knowledgeable genius or a slow, deep, rational/logical thinking genius, because he doesn't do research or knowledge or focusing and thinking deeply about stuff.
Other things:
1: Attempts to link Trump and Russia hit a problem because unfortunately, Russia could only play a supporting role, it was Trump who did the heavy lifting to make and keep himself popular. (Steve Bannon must have watched too much SNL and thought he was the power behind the throne, only to find out too late Trump is the power on the throne, because he has all the political popularity (30-50% US population, 60-80% of Republican base).
2: He seems to have used 6 methods to make himself popular. The 4 minor ones are: confidence, name recognition, verbal communication skills and non-verbal communication skills (yes he has a tiny vocabulary, but it turns out that makes his message easier to digest for those with higher reading levels/possible to digest with those with lower reading levels, and repeating stuff (like "no collusion" 10 times in 2 minutes will work if people have their TV's on in the background and they don't pay enough attention, the only bit they'll remember is "no collusion" but they won't know where they got that from. The 2 main ones are; he is an intuitive genius at intuiting up statements that get Trump attention, make Trump look good, will be listened to by everyone and will feel great according to the common sense of enough listeners; and he built up a massive Positive Personal Reputation and Popularity Index. The former by building a reputation as a; successful billionaire businessman, funny and interesting celebrity entertainer; and a crude, rude, tell it like it is honest straight shooter non politician (this last one is important - it allows crude and rude behaviour to be "reframed" by the common sense, best judgment, intutiion and instincts of Trump supporters as a positive).
3: Trump doesn't lie as much as you'd think. Don't get me wrong - he does lie, but most of the time, just because his statement is wrong, misleading, inaccurate and untrue, that doesn't mean it's a lie, it just means it's untrue. As Kellyanne Conway says, if Trump doesn't think or know he's lying, it's not lying. Which is true (if ludicrious). But Kellyanne being Kellyanne, she omitted something. Trump isn't lying, because Trump usually doesn't bother to check, think or remember what is true before he says or does anything. Take the London Embassy. Trump was probably aware someone had decided to move it, the old building was being sold, and the new one was in a different location. First he decided he didn't want to go (without admitting it was because he'd get booed by thousands of people), then he common sensed out of thin air it was a stupid embassy, then he took what he knew and common sensed up 3 statements largely out of thin air - that the decision had been taken by Obama and it was a stupid decision, that the old building was sold for peanuts, and the new building was in a bad area. All untrue, but Donald never bothered to check how true the statements were, only intuiting that the statement would get Trump attention, make Trump look good, and feel great to the common sense and instincts of enough listeners (so it would work).
4: Trump's primary aims have not changed - get Trump attention, make Trump look good, so you like him and tell him how great he is.
5: You've elected a President who almost can't use his rational thought process or do research or knowledge. Trump seems almost completely dependent on his intuitive thought process. But this means he just common senses his way to his decisions with little to no data or deep thought (I think he dislikes the Iran Nuclear Deal for one of 3 shallow reasons: 1: He common sensed it off the top of his head in seconds "I Donald J Trump fell this is a bad deal" end of thought process. 2: He's using the Republican shorthand "If Obama was for this, we should be against it". 3: He watched a John Bolton interview on Fox News which said it was a bad deal, and he immediately common sensed that it was a bad deal.
6: Trump common sensing everything with no long, medium or short term planning or trying to remember what he did previously is why he's so erratic - he's common sensing it all the time, mainly for "will this get Trump attention, make Trump look good and feel great to enough listeners"? Which is why he agrees to a Democratic party plan, then a Republican one, then later rejects both because now his common sense is telling him it's a stupid plan rather than feeling before that it was a great one.
7: Oh, and a major reason why Trump makes lies or untrue statements, is because Trump has developed or progressed to the point that he statement no longer have to be true in order to work. The truthiness of his statements no longer have any effect on how likely you will listen to them (since they get reported by all media) and have no apparent effect on how likely the common sense of the listeners will feel these are great statements.
8: Trump means everything he says. But it is not necessary for him to believe anything he says. Also, he never makes it clear in what way he means it (serious, joking or something in between). Probably because he's hoping you just go and common sense that the statement is a great statement, and then you can use your common sense/intuition to fill in the gaps and common sense if Trump meant it in a serious, joking or in between way, so he doesn't have to bother. Similarly, Trump supporters common sense that his statement is great, then they have to common sense if it was true, true enough or false but acceptable. (for negative stories about Trump, this gets reversed to is the story "false, false enough or true but it doesn't matter).
9 I do wonder if Trump has full blown Hubris Syndrome (which is odd, because you're supposed to only get that after too many years in power, and he seems to have it full blown before he took office) OR he has the worst case of Neurotypical Syndrome I have ever seen (not just over-dependent on his intuitive thought process, but almost COMPLETELY dependent on it, to the near complete exclusion of data or deep thought.
Donald Trump is an intuitive genius, and if you don't understand this, you will never stop him.
To be clear, he's only an intuitive genius in a very narrow area, but unfortunately, it is the only one that matters - he is an intuitive genius at using his common sense, best judgment, intuition and instincts to target the common sense, best judgment, intuition and instincts (intuitive thought process) of the American population. And he is superior at this than any known current US politician or media person.
He's also not a knowledgeable genius or a slow, deep, rational/logical thinking genius, because he doesn't do research or knowledge or focusing and thinking deeply about stuff.
Other things:
1: Attempts to link Trump and Russia hit a problem because unfortunately, Russia could only play a supporting role, it was Trump who did the heavy lifting to make and keep himself popular. (Steve Bannon must have watched too much SNL and thought he was the power behind the throne, only to find out too late Trump is the power on the throne, because he has all the political popularity (30-50% US population, 60-80% of Republican base).
2: He seems to have used 6 methods to make himself popular. The 4 minor ones are: confidence, name recognition, verbal communication skills and non-verbal communication skills (yes he has a tiny vocabulary, but it turns out that makes his message easier to digest for those with higher reading levels/possible to digest with those with lower reading levels, and repeating stuff (like "no collusion" 10 times in 2 minutes will work if people have their TV's on in the background and they don't pay enough attention, the only bit they'll remember is "no collusion" but they won't know where they got that from. The 2 main ones are; he is an intuitive genius at intuiting up statements that get Trump attention, make Trump look good, will be listened to by everyone and will feel great according to the common sense of enough listeners; and he built up a massive Positive Personal Reputation and Popularity Index. The former by building a reputation as a; successful billionaire businessman, funny and interesting celebrity entertainer; and a crude, rude, tell it like it is honest straight shooter non politician (this last one is important - it allows crude and rude behaviour to be "reframed" by the common sense, best judgment, intutiion and instincts of Trump supporters as a positive).
3: Trump doesn't lie as much as you'd think. Don't get me wrong - he does lie, but most of the time, just because his statement is wrong, misleading, inaccurate and untrue, that doesn't mean it's a lie, it just means it's untrue. As Kellyanne Conway says, if Trump doesn't think or know he's lying, it's not lying. Which is true (if ludicrious). But Kellyanne being Kellyanne, she omitted something. Trump isn't lying, because Trump usually doesn't bother to check, think or remember what is true before he says or does anything. Take the London Embassy. Trump was probably aware someone had decided to move it, the old building was being sold, and the new one was in a different location. First he decided he didn't want to go (without admitting it was because he'd get booed by thousands of people), then he common sensed out of thin air it was a stupid embassy, then he took what he knew and common sensed up 3 statements largely out of thin air - that the decision had been taken by Obama and it was a stupid decision, that the old building was sold for peanuts, and the new building was in a bad area. All untrue, but Donald never bothered to check how true the statements were, only intuiting that the statement would get Trump attention, make Trump look good, and feel great to the common sense and instincts of enough listeners (so it would work).
4: Trump's primary aims have not changed - get Trump attention, make Trump look good, so you like him and tell him how great he is.
5: You've elected a President who almost can't use his rational thought process or do research or knowledge. Trump seems almost completely dependent on his intuitive thought process. But this means he just common senses his way to his decisions with little to no data or deep thought (I think he dislikes the Iran Nuclear Deal for one of 3 shallow reasons: 1: He common sensed it off the top of his head in seconds "I Donald J Trump fell this is a bad deal" end of thought process. 2: He's using the Republican shorthand "If Obama was for this, we should be against it". 3: He watched a John Bolton interview on Fox News which said it was a bad deal, and he immediately common sensed that it was a bad deal.
6: Trump common sensing everything with no long, medium or short term planning or trying to remember what he did previously is why he's so erratic - he's common sensing it all the time, mainly for "will this get Trump attention, make Trump look good and feel great to enough listeners"? Which is why he agrees to a Democratic party plan, then a Republican one, then later rejects both because now his common sense is telling him it's a stupid plan rather than feeling before that it was a great one.
7: Oh, and a major reason why Trump makes lies or untrue statements, is because Trump has developed or progressed to the point that he statement no longer have to be true in order to work. The truthiness of his statements no longer have any effect on how likely you will listen to them (since they get reported by all media) and have no apparent effect on how likely the common sense of the listeners will feel these are great statements.
8: Trump means everything he says. But it is not necessary for him to believe anything he says. Also, he never makes it clear in what way he means it (serious, joking or something in between). Probably because he's hoping you just go and common sense that the statement is a great statement, and then you can use your common sense/intuition to fill in the gaps and common sense if Trump meant it in a serious, joking or in between way, so he doesn't have to bother. Similarly, Trump supporters common sense that his statement is great, then they have to common sense if it was true, true enough or false but acceptable. (for negative stories about Trump, this gets reversed to is the story "false, false enough or true but it doesn't matter).
9 I do wonder if Trump has full blown Hubris Syndrome (which is odd, because you're supposed to only get that after too many years in power, and he seems to have it full blown before he took office) OR he has the worst case of Neurotypical Syndrome I have ever seen (not just over-dependent on his intuitive thought process, but almost COMPLETELY dependent on it, to the near complete exclusion of data or deep thought.
