More than half of the Republicans think Donald Trump thinks well before speaking, according to a poll.
The Americans were asked if they thought Mr. Trump was paying much attention to what he said or did not say in the survey, which was conducted by YouGov in partnership with L & # 39; economist
The Republicans were about as likely to say that it was deliberate to speak out of the blue, with 51% of them saying that he "thought carefully about what was going on. he says before commenting.
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The majority of Trump voters also chose the option "carefully consider" in the poll.
But nearly three-quarters of Americans said they believed Mr. Trump had said something.
Some supporters of the President of the United States have the theory that his comments and his tweets are part of an ambitious strategy to provoke his opponents.
When he denigrates the city of Baltimore because he is crazy about how a Maryland congressman is investigating his daughter, this theory says that the tweet is just another element of the huge machine of Mr. Trump, carefully designed, who owns it.
The president himself is not adhering to this philosophy.
At a brief press conference on Wednesday, Mr. Trump was asked to explain the strategy followed to attack this Congressman, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
"There is no strategy. I do not have a strategy. There is no strategy, "said Trump. "All that is, it's that I'm reporting facts."
He struck Baltimore again. "It's very simple and Elijah Cummings is responsible for it and he should take his oversight committee" – the committee that has badigned information to Ivanka Trump – and he should park them in Baltimore and find out what happened to $ 15 billion and many others. money."
The president has also tried to develop a sense of his own intentionality.
After accidentally sending a tweet referring to "coveted press," the then press secretary, Sean Spicer, claimed that Trump knew exactly what he was doing and later he launched a challenge his supporters to "understand the true meaning of the word" confidential ". ??? Enjoy!"
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Democrats are probably too willing to think that Mr. Trump does things unintentionally. Republicans are probably too willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But as for the idea that he plays chess against cunning political opponents? He says that he is not there.
Unless, of course, this answer is carefully considered to deter his opponents.