How Trump Is Being Fooled Into Thinking He's Winning

How Trump is being fooled into thinking he's winning

Donald Trump held another one of those televised meetings today during which the cabinet secretaries take turns pandering to him. It was obscene, per usual, but also oddly affirming.Why? Because I think it demonstrated something that the Secretary of Defense Rock told me yesterday. (He’s the anonymous publisher of History Does You, a newsletter about the intersection of military and civilian life.) SODR told me that Trump may think he’s winning …

Amid war, Trump’s ‘illusion of coherence’ is finally breaking

Donald Trump held another one of those televised meetings today during which the cabinet secretaries take turns fluffing him. It was obscene, per usual, but also oddly affirming.Why? Because I think it demonstrated something that the Secretary of Defense Rock told me yesterday. (He’s the anonymous publisher of History Does You, a newsletter about the intersection of military and civilian life.) SODR told me that Trump may think he’s winning the …