Mehdi Hassan

Because there is this idea that he's playing 4D or 3D or whatever the analogy chess.

And he's always like it's very, very smart.

And Steve Bannon once said it's like flooding the zone with shit.

You just kind of distract the media with one story and scandal after another.

And sometimes I feel like that's happening.

Sometimes I just think they're just incompetent and they're not getting anything right.

So it feels like they're distracting from one thing to another.

But maybe they're just bad at everything they do.

Clearly, he would like people to see him in this light of leader, god, king, emperor, whatever he wants to call it.

I mean, King Charles had to go to the US recently, had to come from the UK to the US and tell Congress, had to remind them that you need to restrain executive power.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Imagine the King of England has to remind Democratic America about the need to constrain an executive.

No irony there.

The founders are rolling in their graves.

But it is partly distraction, but I don't think we should oversell the distraction.

I think we just deal with the fact that this is who Trump is.

For so many years, people have tried to psychoanalyse him and say, well, it's really this, it's really that, he's really doing this.

No, what you see is what you get.

He's an incompetent, empty vessel of a man who cares about nothing but his own ego, has no vision for anything he does.

He said recently, when the Iran war started, he said, people are going to say, I'll get bored of this.