I was thinking that, in theory, his constant distractions could also work against him, by distracting from his accomplishments. Like when he was visiting hospitals after the shootings, he started tweeting political attacks and then got mad because the media were focusing on that, rather than giving him credit for visiting hospitals (where people didn’t want to see him). But it occurs to me it’s only because Trump never actually accomplishes anything that his distractions never really hurt him.
If he ever did anything good, he’d screw himself by immediately distracting from that, but since he’s just constant committing fuck-ups, it’s a pattern of behavior (not a strategy) that works for him. At his best, he (just barely) manages to do something that’s really the absolute bare minimum expected of the president - like visiting hospitals - that wouldn’t benefit him much if he didn’t distract from it.
