Unsurprisingly, political leaders and media commentators piled on in outrage. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, called him “deranged and dangerous.” Todd Gloria, the mayor of San Diego, reminded Trump that his city “is not collateral damage.” Even Jim Desmond, a Navy veteran and San Diego County supervisor, who is running for the House seat representing California’s 48th Congressional District, “vehemently” disagreed with Trump, arguing that “America must stand up to Iran and defend our interests, but the first responsibility of our Commander in Chief is to protect the American people and our homeland.”
Having known Trump for 30 years, it is wrong and dangerous to write off his grotesque capers as delirious tantrums or creeping dementia. He has always been this way by choice. Some call this diversionary maneuver the hypnotic effect of a “shiny new object.”
What most political analysts presume to be impulsive chaos is often a deliberate, calibrated churn of provocations. When a conventional leader faces a damaging story, they try to change the subject with good news. Trump does the opposite. He buries bad news under louder, more outrageous news of his own making. He is the only leader who will shoot himself in the left foot if it keeps you from looking at his right.
The military raid Trump ordered to capture and extract Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in early January was deceptively justified with a flurry of explanations. He invoked national security despite the absence of risk of foreign attacks.
On Jun. 22, 2025, Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer with great fanfare, deploying B-2 stealth bombers and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles against three Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. He declared that the operation had destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and eliminated the nuclear threat posed by the regime. Iran’s continued nuclear weapons capability punctured the bravado.
The racist AI video of the Obamas that Trump shared in a late-night Truth Social post in February was a calculated diversion, timed to coincide with his sagging approval ratings. He faced criticism for his bizarre bigoted humor, the sort that had ended or damaged the careers of earlier politicians, such as Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and Congressman Steve King.
He followed that with by false claims of vandalism of the Lincoln Monument’s Reflecting Pool. When his effort to recast America’s 250th anniversary as his own grandiose tribute was outshined by glowing coverage of Taylor Swift’s wedding in Madison Square Garden, he attacked the wedding. He then launched another round of unprovoked legal attacks against universities, law firms, and former public officials, including former FBI director James Comey and former Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell.
The limits of burying the bad news
Each of these interventions, whether reckless, self-destructive trade barriers, massive military invasions, or offensive divisive speeches, soaks up attention. All of these interventions initially diverted media coverage as intended, even if they ultimately backfired. The provocations and the uproar they generate drown out other serious problems while the ricochet effects magnify Trump’s presence, making him seem everywhere, all the time. That is the point.
And there is an affordability crisis compounded by persistent inflation, cratering economic data, plummeting consumer confidence, and weak jobs growth. Even coverage of the war with Iran has been eclipsed by the uproar over Trump’s Los Angeles and San Diego remarks. The conflict has lasted far longer than he expected or intended, with its objectives seemingly stalled and no easy way out.
And on Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut revealed that the Pentagon had denied him access to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The largest U.S. base in the region, it has been struck repeatedly by Iran since the war began in February. The Pentagon also refused to brief him on the war while he was in Qatar, citing a March travel directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Murphy called it an “active, unprecedented, unconstitutional effort underway to hide the costs of this war” from Congress and the public.
Sustained attention to what Trump wants buried is the antidote to his perpetual noise machine. It has become fashionable to trace Trump’s playbook to Roy Cohn, his mentor and his father’s diabolical attorney. But Trump also draws on an older American tradition, articulated by the 19th century showman P.T. Barnum: "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived." And, “without promotion something terrible happens: nothing!”
Sadly for Trump, the Canadians, the Iranians, and his fellow Americans are figuring out his maneuvers and keeping their attention on his faltering domestic policies and imploding global diplomacy. Even Barnum understood that the public can balance a three ring circus and not follow the carnival barking of the ringmaster.
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