He only wants you to think that.
“He blurts out whatever pops into his head ... He only wants you to think that. “
That is correct. Almost every word out of Trump’s mouth is calculated. Either as a way to “brand” and opponent or to set himself up in a win-win situation while setting his opponent up in a lose-lose situation.
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams explains the calculated brilliance of Trump’s strategies,which have boxed everyone in in such a way that Trump comes out a winner and his opponents come out losers no matter what direction his opponents take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kydKTVLmP58&feature=youtu.be
And I should add that most of the media still doesn’t understand what Trump is up to, which is why they keep getting everything wrong about him.
Most of his primary opponents never got it either, which is why they looked so ineffectual and ridiculous when they tried to emulate what they thought he was doing, namely, randomly casting out insults.
What I really wonder about is whether Hillary’s camp gets it or not. For sure, their strategy of trying to label Trump as “dangerous”, etc. is tepid and won’t work. Their internal polls will tell them that in a couple of weeks, and they’ll shift again to some other attack mode, which will probably not work either, and so it will go for the conventional campaign of the conventional candidate during the year in which nearly everyone loathes the insiders and pines for the outsider.