Trump’s Chessboard

Trump apologists have often accused him of playing 4D chess. Which is a fancy way of saying that he’s so smart that he runs his adversaries in circles. Although I’ve been a Trump supporter from the early days I’ve never fully bought into this idea of 348 dimensional underwater chess.

Until I re-watched the debates.

At the end of September 2016 Alicia Machado, which was Miss Universe when Trump owned the beauty pageant business, revealed to the NYTimes that Trump told her to lose weight to continue her career. Hillary Clinton put her on the shield and accused Trump of being a sexist. Again.

At the time I didn’t make much of it and thought that everybody would forget about it in a couple of days. Just another smear attack in a highly personalized election. Trump, however, had different plans.

The night after this story broke he tweeted the following

Not only he didn’t apologize but accused the “victim” of basically being a porno star. It goes without saying that the next morning every newspaper and radio/tv shows talked incessantly about these tweets and whether it was appropriate for a presidential candidate to stay up late at night to tweet…