“It’s as if Trump took out a world map and started throwing darts”—Democratic Strategist Reacts to Trump’s New Wave of Attacks
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During a post-Christmas appearance on CNN, Democratic strategist Matt Bennett struggled to pinpoint a reason behind Donald Trump’s latest wave of attacks on countries that had not even been mentioned during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Just a day after the president-elect unleashed a barrage of criticism on Truth Social, targeting nations like Canada, Panama, and Greenland, CNN host Sara Sidner questioned what these comments could signal for Trump’s upcoming term.
“We don’t recall Donald Trump campaigning to invade Panama and retake its famous canal. But there was the president-elect on the weekend threatening our Central American ally with punishment if it doesn’t meet his demands,” Sidner said, setting the stage for Bennett’s response.
Bennett, a former Clinton White House aide, was quick to describe the rhetoric as chaotic. “I mean it signals chaos,” he said. “It’s as if Trump took out a world map and started throwing darts and decided to threaten whatever country the darts land on.”
The countries Trump had singled out, including Greenland, Panama, and Canada, seemed to have come as a complete surprise to Bennett. “Greenland, Panama, Canada? No one saw any of this coming because this is what Donald Trump does –– he stirs chaos,” Bennett explained. “It has strategic value for him because it distracts from other things he doesn’t want to be talking about, but sometimes it just seems completely bizarre and made up.”
Bennett admitted that Trump’s unpredictable behavior often served as a tool for distraction, but he couldn’t help but find the latest attacks nonsensical. “None of this makes any sense,” he confessed. “And I think what it signals is that we’re back to Donald Trump, whom we knew in his first term.
He wakes up every day and just stirs chaotic, bizarre things and drives the news with that.” Trump’s recent outbursts against these nations have left many questioning whether this will be the tone of his presidency moving forward.
