Variously attributed to E.M Forester and Marilyn Monroe, this seems to capture Trump's deliberative process. Most of us were cautioned to think before we speak. Trump, on the other hand, operates very differently. He has no filter, blurting out whatever thought wanders into his mind and then waits to see how it lands.
The likelihood of it becoming "policy" is negatively related to the ensuing outrage among "loyalists" and positively related to the degree to which it upsets his perceived enemies. It is an enormously efficient heuristic, one that offloads the heavy burden of carefully thinking things through to those around him.
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