Trump playing the ‘Xanatos Gambit’ with shutdown strategy

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Trent Telenko presents a very interesting interpretation of President Trump’s strategy in confronting the Democrats over funding for border wall construction at the Chicago Boyz Blog. I had no idea what a Xanatos Gambit is, and was worried that some important lesson from Greek mythology had eluded me, until I read at the end of this long and interesting post that Xanatos is a Disney character from a 1990s television show, Garagoyles, “voiced by Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes… very loosely based on Donald Trump.”

In short, Telenko explains, “a ‘Xanatos Gambit’ is a plan for which all foreseeable outcomes benefit the creator — including ones that superficially appear to be failure.”

This diagram, drawn from the TV series and using language from it, explains the decision tree analysis:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trump_playing_the_xanatos_gambit_with_shutdown_strategy.html

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The writer should give credit to TVTropes, from which he pulled the description and diagram: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit.