Jim, I listened to that speech as well. You are not getting what he was saying.
By saying Hamas is smart, was just acknowledging that they’re not stupid. Are they putting their smarts to good use? NO! They are using any brain power they may have for evil purposes. He’s warning people that when your enemies are smart, you have to be smarter. Lots of evil people are smart. Many criminals are very smart. Look at the evil people who devise ways of breaking into places, robbing banks, art galleries, etc. There are many evil BUT SMART people.
As far as Bibi is concerned, try to keep your first reaction in abeyance. If I’ve learned anything with President Trump, it’s that he is usually onto something before many of us. If President Trump is telling the truth about Bibi, and that actually happened, isn’t that something we should know? If he’s lying (which I don’t think he is) then, yes, he should be pounced on for that. My learned reaction is to just wonder why he told us, and to keep an eye on what transpires regarding Bibi.
I’m not trying to castigate, just hoping to tamp down your reactions a bit so you can stay on board.
What I heard him say, was IMO,
1) bad timing regarding Bibi, and
2) bad thinking in expressing admiration of dictators as those in Jihad regimes.
I still think that Trump is the best man for 2024, but my God, Pro-Trumpers have to start using their brains a bit more and stop being robotic “yes men”. I don’t think that helps Trump, America, or America’s People.
I believe that President Trump uses political poetry to convey his meaning:
Personification in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson:
“Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me.”
In Trump’s speeches is allegory, antithesis, euphemism, irony, litotes, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, pleonasm, pun, and many more figures of speech to stimulate his crowds with.