I think the "smocking gun" comment was intentional.

[LuckyCharms]

I also think that a good portion of the other ridiculous bullshit in his tweets in intentional.

The more ridiculous the better, because it takes your eyes off the prize. Instead of having a laser-like focus on the real issue, we (myself included) focus on his misspelling. He takes advantage of human nature.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. You give him too much credit.

He wrote "smocking" because he's an ignorant semiliterate douche who doesn't know how to spell "smoking." He misspells and mispunctuates stuff all the time. He's just stupid and reactive, not some clever criminal mastermind.

[SCantiGOP]

9. He told us he was a stable genius

He wouldn’t make mistakes on purpose.

He must be completely delusional and egomaniacal to Tweet on impulse like he does. Anytime I’ve ever sent emails or letters that were going to more than one person I would have someone proofread it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Exactly. His ego is too immense for him to deliberately make mistakes

that people would mock and that would result in him being accused of stupid or illiterate. He wouldn't do that even for strategic reasons, not that he's even capable of thinking strategically.

[TimeToGo]

29. Exactly

[HipChick]

2. yes, intentional..he used it before on August 1st,2018..Here's Colbert doing a routine on it...back

in August..

[flying rabbit]

3. That would imply some sort of cunning.

Which he lacks. All he does is playground names and playing the victim.

[LuckyCharms]

5. If he wasn't cunning, he would not be where he is.

He is by no means intelligent.

But he knows how to play on weaknesses.

[spanone]

4. the most dangerous man in the world.

really.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Good point and this isn't the first time he's used this one - From Stephen Colbert:

A 'Smocking Gun,' Al Capone, And Obstruction Of Justice - 8/1/18

Wednesday brought a trifecta of Twitter nonsense from the President, with tweets about Al Capone, a 'smocking gun,' and basically obstruction of justice in plain sight.

[blue neen]

7. No, he really is just that stupid.

Also, the smocking comment makes him look dumb, and his ego wouldn't permit him to premeditate that.

[brush]

8. Nah, it is what it is. He's just dumb and panicking, not that clever.

He knows there are indictments waiting for him once he's out of office. I predict he'll try to cut a deal by offering to resign if Mueller and the SDNY will let him off the hook.

[marylandblue]

10. You've got it right, and people don't realize this is how narcissists play the game

People think these "mistakes" are because he has a low IQ. Well he probably does, but not that low. He's observed that he gets the emotional reaction he wants when he does certain things. Since that's all he cares about, he spends a lot of time thinking about and testing how to get the right reactions. The people who react are put off guard and that gives him the space he needs to get away with crimes.

If you observe your own emotional reactions and learn to see past them, you become free of the narcissist's manipulations. So congratulations.

BTDT with a narcissistic former colleague.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. He does things to get attention but he wouldn't intentionally make mistakes

that make him look stupid.

[marylandblue]

14. He will do whatever it takes to get attention. Especially the right kind.

In this case you wants to laugh about smocking rather talk about the crime. He knows he's caught and this is the only method he has of getting out of it. Because his lawyers can't save him.

[LuckyCharms]

24. Good post.

I suffered for years with a narcissistic in-law. I always tried to placate this person, and go along with them.

I finally had enough and told that person to fuck off.

That one comment inflicted such narcissistic injury that they no longer speak to me.

Narcissists, when exposed and called out, are ruined.

[lunasun]

13. Yeah I don't know anymore Lucky, some of the things that pass in thought nowadays I would

have called myself a complete nut years ago because I have thought what you are posting before with Trump tweets

Also if not him then who ever may be tweeting for him.
It seems obvious at times that least that more than one person is tweeting ( to me) under his name.
And it’s true he has used that same silly mistake before to deflect just like he rehashes tricks from his business days

See if I was listening to me now I would walk away from me because it sounds off or paranoid, but it’s like my sig of the twilight zone >I don’t know what’s really going on but I think it’s very possible yes a good portion are

[LuckyCharms]

25. I hear you.

His shtick is to sow confusion and distraction. And to gaslight. These are the only things he knows how to do.

And I agree 100% that many of his tweets are not written by him.

[onecaliberal]

15. No, actually he is THAT stupid.

[redstateblues]

16. He's too lazy to proofread his tweets

[ProudLib72]

17. I think his comment was international as well

In-duh-vidual 1

Jeezus, we have a sippy cup president!

[Dave Starsky]

21. I remember that bottle incident.

It was like he had never in his life drunk from a bottle before and didn't know how they work.

[OnDoutside]

18. It could have been a Freudian slip...Smocking indicates Cover up !

[Cha]

19. I disagree.. we can multitask and

he is illiterate to a degree.

[Dave Starsky]

20. I think we can apply Occam's Razor to this...

And safely assume that he's just an illiterate idiot.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. My Only Reason For Buying This A Little

Yes, i do think he's as dumb as a box of rocks, but in this case, if he's tweeting from a phone, the phone would try to autocorrect to S-M-O-K-I-N-G. We all know that if one just hits the space bar, it puts the word it thinks you want in there.

So S-M-O-C-K-I-N-G would have to be forced by hitting that spelling on the little bar above.

Either that, or he's so arrogant that he thinks he knows better than the spellcheck which is linked to a dictionary!

[demmiblue]

23. I tend to agree.

It also causes more people to talk about him (and we all know how much he needs ANY kind of attention).

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. No. Because everything is always about him and only him.

He wants to be thought of as the smartest person ever. Plus, he has no sense of humor. Mocking disabled people is NOT humor, it's narcissistic bullying.

I know how often I misspell or mistype something here, and I not only try to do a quick proof of my posts, but I don't have auto-correct although I do get a squiggly red line under something that isn't a real word or is misspelled. Which saves me from all sorts of mistakes but not all of them.

With Trump, the idea that he could be wrong about anything just doesn't enter his consciousness. And making a deliberate goof just would not be imaginable.

[worstexever]

27. I agree

I think he's desperate for attention - constantly - and he posts these ridiculously childish tweets to keep the focus on him instead of the other abhorrent things that are going on, including the exposure of his criminality.

[Boomer]

28. There's a serious flaw in your theory

Trump doesn't understand -- or care about -- human nature. His only focus is himself. His time frame is the immediate moment in which he is living.

There's a narcissistic bubble around Trump. He lives inside it and has no interest in everyone else who lives outside of it.

[Bettie]

30. Eh, it is possible to mock someone

and still pay attention to the important stuff.