Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’
As Donald Trump’s back-and-forth on trade policies creates chaos in the financial markets, some fund managers are questioning the rationality of his decisions.
“In the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers,” Tom Lee, the head of research at the financial analysis firm FSInsights, wrote on Wednesday morning, before Trump backed down from most of his tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
“And their concern is that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology,” he added. “A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”
Sure, that’s what Trump is doing - but does he even realize it?
A toddler learning to walk gets a lot of attention from his parents when he tries to stick a fork in an outlet.
If that Toddler wants more attention, they’ll do it again and again without ever realizing how close to being electrocuted they are. Eventually that Toddler grows up learning all the wrong lessons, and if they come from enough money they never suffer or learn the consequences for acting that way. That Toddler, now adult, still craves negative attention from adults, and acts like an insufferable asshole to get it, grabbing people by their genitals, doing drugs, and never getting punished because of their parents wealth.
Do they know they’re an insufferable asshole? Do they know their actions - done purely for attention - have a bigger impact on those around them?
I don’t think they do.
They are too emotionally underdeveloped and intellectually stunted to ever understand their own motivations.
When it comes to Trump, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell he knows he’s even doing his “big ask” strategy. I think he’s at the mental capacity of a toddler doing to the world what worked for him to get attention from his deranged parents.
He’d ask them for big things, like an entire business he can run to get their respect, then settle for a small loan or something else he’d never get from them otherwise because his parents hated and mocked him for taking their handouts instead of working on anything himself.
He’s a toddler doing what worked for him to get his parents attention on a national scale, and I sincerely doubt he even understands his compulsion to behave that way.