MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday revealed just how tired she is of one particularly baseless theory about President Donald Trump, namely that the MAGA leader is playing some sort of politically strategic “3D chess” — and not just “doing dumb s**t on his phone.”
Wallace made her case during a “Deadline: White House” discussion involving Dan Kanninen, who served former Vice President Kamala Harris as battleground director ahead of the 2024 election, and Sam Stein, managing editor of anti-Trump conservative site The Bulwark.
“I guess what I would push back and say, Dan, is that every time the press tries to figure out what sophisticated secret version of 3D chess Trump is playing, he’s just doing some dumb shit on his phone,” Wallace said Tuesday.
She continued, “So I want to guard against, like, the opaque mystery. It is likely, I mean, we see from the way he tweets, like, that he reaches for his phone and posts all night. If any of our children did that, they would lose their phone for a semester — or seven.”
Wallace and her guests had been discussing a newly released proposal confirming Senate Republicans are seeking $1 billion for “security adjustments and upgrades” for Trump’s White House ballroom project, with Stein suggesting there are nebulous reasons behind it.
