Trump's big weakness imo is that he thinks he can get people to like him if he can just get them in a room to talk 1v1. That makes him easy to manipulate because someone like Bolton can act like he's getting along with Trump, and Trump wants to believe that's the case, so he only looks at the positive signs while ignoring the possibility that he's being double crossed.
I don't think that's really it. Bill Clinton is an actual example of a guy who's biggest weakness is that he thinks he can get anybody to like him. He was nearly at Trump levels socially and with very high classic intelligence. Liberal media says 160 IQ or whatever, but there's no doubt he was wicked smart and you look at his failures and they're all from 1v1 problems (either that did like him, or say Gingrich who was totally immune to charm).
From listening to the secret recordings it's clear to me that Trump's problem is that he put all his points on social intelligence and zero on classic intelligence. So he relies on polling those around him and using his social powers to weigh the options he's presented with.
That generally works great in business where most people are trying to do a good job and keep it, and almost never in politics where people are knifing each other in the back. He was doing a great job when he was having rallies and talking to real people, but once he got totally surrounded by politicians he started failing, because he didn't actually understand the issues himself.
Also a good chance Bolton was a strategy, like good cop bad cop. I just don't see Trump being fooled by acting, but who knows.
Trump's big weakness imo is that he thinks he can get people to like him if he can just get them in a room to talk 1v1. That makes him easy to manipulate because someone like Bolton can act like he's getting along with Trump, and Trump wants to believe that's the case, so he only looks at the positive signs while ignoring the possibility that he's being double crossed.
I don't think that's really it. Bill Clinton is an actual example of a guy who's biggest weakness is that he thinks he can get anybody to like him. He was nearly at Trump levels socially and with very high classic intelligence. Liberal media says 160 IQ or whatever, but there's no doubt he was wicked smart and you look at his failures and they're all from 1v1 problems (either that did like him, or say Gingrich who was totally immune to charm).
From listening to the secret recordings it's clear to me that Trump's problem is that he put all his points on social intelligence and zero on classic intelligence. So he relies on polling those around him and using his social powers to weigh the options he's presented with.
That generally works great in business where most people are trying to do a good job and keep it, and almost never in politics where people are knifing each other in the back. He was doing a great job when he was having rallies and talking to real people, but once he got totally surrounded by politicians he started failing, because he didn't actually understand the issues himself.
Also a good chance Bolton was a strategy, like good cop bad cop. I just don't see Trump being fooled by acting, but who knows.
Yeah, would of made a MUCH better Ambassador of the US than prez.