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Trump Is History’s Worst Idiot and I Know Why: Political Guru
April 14, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersPresident Donald Trump is not the smart and savvy political prodigy some believe him to be; rather, he is quite the opposite, one political analyst argues.Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast, foreign policy expert David Rothkopf told host Joanna Coles that the idea of Trump’s numerous antics throughout his second presidency signaling some secret distress call to remove him is not at all likely.“That suggests that there is a healthy impulse somewhere in Trump that I just don’t believe exists,” Rothkopf, the Daily Beast’s chief global affairs columnist, said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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