{"id":4259,"date":"2026-07-25T20:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:12:35","slug":"the-ghost-advising-donald-trumps-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost Advising Donald Trump\u2019s Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><i>For more from Michael Wolff, <\/i><i>subscribe to HOWL<\/i><i> on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily commentary, analysis, and insider knowledge.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4257\">MAGA Aide Accused of Trying to Bring Drugs Into Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I once pressed Steve Bannon about Trump\u2019s intelligence. He said, \u201cHe\u2019s as smart as any guy who\u2019s spent twenty years listening to Lou Dobbs.\u201d As one of cable\u2019s first business anchors, correspondents, and commentators, he developed a variety of stances: birtherism, anti-immigration, and the simple fix of putting tariffs on everything. The underpinnings of these views were not facts, study, but ratings. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>All of this formed the certainties with which Donald Trump entered politics, and became popular positions for him too. In turn, Dobbs promoted Trump and would later become a dedicated advocate of Trump\u2019s election conspiracy theories, making him a named defendant in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network defamation lawsuit, which cost the network almost a billion dollars and finally got him fired. He died in Palm Beach in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He continues, however, to live on in Donald Trump, in the president\u2019s unwavering, obsessive focus on tariffs as the necessary and magical correction to all ills. This is obsessive, persists even when it might otherwise seem to be unreasonable and counterproductive\u2014and, in this case, against the law.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4255\">How Trump Revealed the Weakness That Will Be His Undoing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump is not a man of principle; he is a man of fixation. Tariffs\u2014even though, by all evidence and logic, they will undermine the promise of economic growth central to Trump\u2019s political identity and fortunes\u2014have assumed for him a sacred meaning. <\/p>\n<p>The tariffs themselves may be less the point than his obsession with them. He will pursue a discredited policy because\u2026 well, he just can\u2019t get it out of his head, can\u2019t adapt to another way of looking at a problem, can\u2019t challenge his own thinking, doesn\u2019t have enough intellectual capacity to have a replacement for the one idea he already has.<\/p>\n<p>Lou Dobbs explained it all and that\u2019s good enough.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>Don\u2019t watch the collapse from the outside. For more on Trump\u2019s tariff plans, and much more, <\/i><i>subscribe to Michael Wolff\u2019s HOWL<\/i><i> on Substack.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=4253\">Kids at New Jersey Camp Fed Mushroom-Laced Edibles<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily commentary, analysis, and insider knowledge. 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