Stop looking for Cartesian rigor where there is none by design.

Look, I'm not pro or against the guy. I'm not American, so all I want from you guys is for you to keep me out of your blast radius.

But I think the following point isnt made often enough.

Trump has in common with the leftists that he doesnt use political speech to communicate "facts an logic"^tm. He is part of that group of people that use discourse to communicate emotion and political alignment. He says whatever fits the emotional line he wants to push at the moment. it doesnt matter that what he says makes no sense to anyone who pays attention. if anything, if it annoys his opponents by being offensively incoherent, thats a feature, not a bug.

which is why he pulled along alot of former working class lefties. being an old school democrat, he knows how the sausage is made.

to the Cartesian minded, think of some piece of music without lyrics. you may like it, you may not, but asking whether it is true or not makes no sense. truth is not the point.

He is what you got at the moment, so work with it.