[Cboldt]

I really do appreciate that different people have different ideas about what to say, when to say it, and how to say it. But bombast, positing absurdities, sending ambiguous/cryptic messages, and sending your enemies down rabbit holes are things that smart people do.

No matter how Trump approaches his obstacles, somebody is going to opine that Trump's approach is wrong-headed; and others are going to say it's genius. The truth is somewhere in between, most of the time.

[Golden Eagle]

But bombast, positing absurdities, sending ambiguous/cryptic messages, and sending your enemies down rabbit holes are things that smart people do.

I don't agree with this, other than this is what his Twitter account is beginning to turn into. In person, he is typically very excellent, so he should be using the bully pulpit more than twitter, unless he can start coming off a little less driven by emotion when he uses it.