2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Linguist: It's not "word-salad". Trump is a skilled orator and manipulator of the subconscious. [View all]radical noodle
(8,000 posts)It becomes second nature to them. That doesn't give him superhuman intelligence, it just means he's able to sell NYC on buying land that he wants to build on so he doesn't have to pay the taxes. It means that he's been able to sell himself as the author of The Art of the Deal when he really wasn't. He's spent his life manipulating his family and friends, his business associates and politicians who can do things for him that make him look good. When one has spent at least 50 or 60 years doing the same thing over and over selling rain making to those in a drought, one becomes so good at it that it comes naturally. He may even believe or mean what he's saying, but it's always to benefit him in the long run.
I agree that he uses the same techniques, but I don't think it's strategy, I think it's just who he is.