Dasha, you cover the White House," host Manu Raju prompted his guest. "Where does the president see this going on tariffs? Or is it just sort of every day is another adventure?"Chaos is not a negotiating tactic. As Heath Ledger’s Joker said to Harvey Dent in the hospital: “Do I look like a guy with a plan?” Chaos works in fiction because it can be made to seem to serve an end (the writer is always in charge of the plot). But chaos in real life is simply the complete absence of order.
"Well, he said this week it's all about his instinct, right?' she replied. "Look, remember how much we were reporting at the outset of this administration that chaos is the strategy? That's how he's going about what he's doing with DOGE. That's how he's going about so many aspects of his agenda."
"He's doing that with tariffs as well," she elaborated. "He wants to keep everyone off balance, he wants people to come to the table and negotiate and wonder, you know, how they're going to do this with the White House."
Trump is not chaotic because he’s in charge or strategic or enacting the “art of the deal.” He’s chaotic because he’s incompetent.
Nothing more.
Not a strategy. Not a plan. Just bloody fucking incompetence.BRENNAN: 90 days can be a rolling deadline is what I hear you saying
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 13, 2025
GREER: I would not say that. At the president's cabinet meeting last week, he was asked about this and said, "well, we'll see" pic.twitter.com/QVh0rYFUvq
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