The Stack: Trump Strategy Exposed: Media Finally Sees The Method
For years, critics have painted Donald Trump as reckless and impulsive—but a recent segment from CNN’s Michael Smerconish, combined with detailed reporting from The New York Times, tells a very different story. In this episode, Todd Huff breaks down how Trump’s public persona contrasts sharply with what happens behind closed doors.
While Trump’s social media posts may appear chaotic, new insights reveal a structured, deliberate decision-making process—especially regarding Iran. Advisors debated strategy, challenged assumptions, and weighed risks before Trump made a final call. This isn’t randomness—it’s calculated leadership.
Todd explains why many in the media misunderstand Trump: they take his words literally but fail to take him seriously. Meanwhile, supporters recognize a strategic approach rooted in negotiation tactics and strength projection.
The takeaway? What looks like unpredictability may actually be intentional—and effective. And now, even some in the media are starting to admit it.
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The Todd Huff Show – April 13, 2026
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Well, that is right, my friends. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. It's good to be here with you today. Email address. Well, actually, let me give you the texting number. That's where you can send your questions and feedback. 317-785-1030. Let me say that again. 317-785-1030. 317-785-1030. Thoughts, questions, feedback, of course include the appropriate amounts of adoration and praise there as well, my friends. I'm kidding, but just kind of. Okay, so over the weekend, I want to talk about this today. CNN host Michael Smerconish, who's not an extreme radical leftist, in my estimation, he's just a liberal, but he's just discovered something, realized something, which is remarkable because, you know, it's rare for people to understand anything about President Donald J. Trump. So I want to play. It's a lengthy introduction to a segment on his program that happened, I believe, on Saturday. I saw it posted on X on Saturday. So we'll play this. We'll talk about this. I mean, it's there for anybody who wants to hear it, understand it. It's what we've been talking about here for a long, long time. And it's nice to see that someone has either stumbled into this, figured it out on their own, decided to tell the truth. I don't know. One of those things, maybe all those things working in unison there, but that's what I want to talk about today because it is rare for someone in the left or on the left, someone in the media to have this level of honesty and transparency with their audience. And even though I don't agree politically with him, maybe ever, I don't know, I applaud him for this. Kudos to actually thinking this through and coming to the right conclusion. So that's where we're headed today.
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Todd Huff: But Michael Smerconish, at least as it pertains to this particular sound bite, has been, well, has stumbled into truth or I don't know. Maybe he's going kicking and screaming here, but this is a pretty fair assessment about who Donald Trump is and what I want to say here, how he, he's not a madman, basically. He's not a madman. So he's going to start here by quoting Bill Maher. This thing hits pretty quickly. So I'm going to queue it up with a couple seconds of silence and then let it play. I'm going to. I know some of you don't like this. Sorry, not sorry. I'm going to stop this as I feel the need to expound upon what he's saying here. But that being said, this is what we're going to do today. And it's just it's the truth is out there sometimes. If you look hard enough and want to find it, of course, most of the time the people in the media hide this stuff. Again, I don't know if it's a moment of clarity, if it's a moment of weakness, if they're trying to stand out from all the other people who don't seem to get it or don't want the audience to think that they get it. I don't know. Whatever the case, here is Michael Smerconish of CNN seemingly understanding Trump's, well, I'm going to say method to his madness, even though he says that's not exactly what it is. That's what we're going to say for now.
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): A crazy person doesn't live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person a lot on TV lives there. I'm Michael Smerconish in the Philly Burbs. Bill Maher said those words last spring after having dinner with President Trump at the White House. And then he added, which I know is effed up. It's just not as effed up as I thought it was.
Todd Huff: I'm pausing there. I'm pausing there because that's a big admission for someone on the left who has who has spent the better part of a decade now. Remember Trump came down that escalator in June or July of 2015. I remember when my wife told me I've shared this before she said Trump is announced has announced he's running for for president and listen at the time I thought oh boy what is this gonna be I my I grew up I won't get into this too much but you know when I grew up in the 80s Donald Trump you just knew his name I don't even know why he was in the media he would be on Oprah Winfrey show from time to time he had his name on buildings you would see him what does any in home alone I think he was in that by the way he also was at UFC whatever number it was this weekend I watched that fight two absolutely amazing fights the the final two no two of the final three fights were absolutely astonishing fights and Trump was there Trump was there in fact in fact Trump asked Dana White there was a guy who fought who may be the most entertaining fighter I have seen since Anderson Silva and at the end of that fight Trump apparently had asked Dana White if there was any way to get him on the fight card for the 250 250th anniversary celebration there's gonna be UFC fight at the White House which again I love this I'm just gonna be honest I love this stuff but the guy
Todd Huff: that just fought they just fought Saturday Trump had asked Dana White is there any way to get this guy to get this guy ready and so they added a fight they added a fight between this fighter's name was Josh hope it HOK IT and they've added a fight between he and Lewis who's a big mean heavy hitter fighter anyway Trump was at that fight as well but Trump's always been out there he's just always been in the media he's always had opinions on things he's always you know he's just always been there and then he had a television show that when my wife and I were dating this is years ago we used to watch it called The Apprentice and I have to be honest with you I didn't like it I don't even know why I watched it it was just something that was on when when I would go see her in the evenings or whatever and we watched it but I didn't like it and that was my experience with him but it wasn't long I was an early adopter to Trump especially when I heard him saying things that other politicians would never say I just I found I found his message refreshing and I don't want to rehash all that but I'm simply saying I'm simply saying that everybody knew Trump before 2015 when he came down the escalator and you know what the truth is everybody liked Trump besides what I'm saying I don't I didn't know him personally but people who know him personally he's a likable guy that's the thing the guy has always been liked he's liked by the people who build his buildings he just has a way about it he's just likable and when he ran at first he was a joke and then they started taking him seriously.
Todd Huff: and then they realized the other way to stop this guy is to hate him to call him Hitler and everything else and so that was the the setting for a decade right a decade of hating Donald J. Trump by the media and by the Democrat Party and by a big chunk of America today they're blinded by their rage and hatred I I don't hate anybody like to hate him it's it's just wild stuff anyway so that's that's the setting so Bill Maher who listen Bill Maher and I would have incredibly different opinions on some things he's he's an atheist I'm of course a follower of Jesus he is he hates Trump he hates conservatives or at least conservatism he thinks that people like me are idiots and he's pretty he thinks pretty highly of himself let's say that um he's a liberal I'm a conservative um he's from you know from that world from the world of entertainment and he's been in that bubble where the hatred for Trump is probably uh the greatest and so he had dinner with Trump last year and that at Trump last year and this is what Smerconish started off by saying he quoted Bill Maher Bill Maher said a crazy guy doesn't live in the white house a guy who plays a crazy guy lives in the white house and that's that was his conclusion and see there's a lot of people a lot of people that you'll encounter who hate Trump who are Democrats who are leftists who are communists who are anti-American people whoever who simply will not speak those words I just said they in fact they get mad and that's what Smerconish is going to get to next they get angry if someone who shares their belief says Donald Trump's not as crazy and wild as the media would have you believe
Todd Huff: so fact that's what he's going to reference here Larry David who's one of the co-creators of Seinfeld who by the way which by the way is one of my favorites if not my favorite all time sitcom I still watch I don't watch any really new television if I watch something I'll watch reruns of The Office and reruns of Seinfeld you hear me talk about about it on here but Larry David who's he's the individual that George Costanza's character is based on in the show um he's one of the writers he and Jerry Seinfeld are the ones who created this program um and did all the writing and all that but soon after Bill Maher made those comments a year ago Larry David wrote an op-ed entitled my dinner with Adolf acting as though or trying to position this so that's what Bill Maher was basically doing you know I had dinner with Adolf Hitler it wasn't really that bad he's not that bad of a guy right that's what Larry David either really believes and I think people like Larry David really do believe it I think that they are so poisoned by some of the stuff and the circles that they that they run in some of the things that they believe they're committed leftists um I think he believes this I think he believes a lot of things that aren't true but nonetheless that was the response and that's where Smerconish is going next here
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): although Festivus ensued when Larry David satirized Maher in the New York Times under the headline my dinner with Adolph and in a choice between two of my favorite comedians I stood with Maher on the theory that it's better to have dialogue and to break bread than to demonize Maher was mingling with the President of the United States and guess what when the dinner ended he went right back on TV and continued his biting analysis of Trump and of course the President eventually took to Truth Social to head back at Bill Maher the Maher dinner has been on my mind this week watching Trump's Truth Social posts amidst the war in Iran
Todd Huff: you've so I want to say something about this really quickly Donald well we're given this picture I don't want to spend a lot of time here we're given this picture of Trump telling journalists they can't basically report what they want to report right that's the narrative that's the narrative that Trump is a well he's someone who's trying to control the media they're not letting people say what they want to say he's shutting down people who disagree with him that's a narrative that's out there that's one of the things they want you to say but notice that Bill Maher goes directly home does say some nice things about Trump but goes immediately back to bashing him in some ways which of course he's free to do by the way he's absolutely free to do it and it continues even though they act like they act like there's no free press today of course there's a free press today as I've said before it's much more dangerous when the press is fawning over the president or politicians or people in power that's a much more dangerous scenario than when they I'm not saying they should hate him but at least when they hate him there's this there's this tension where the media is trying to hold the person accountable now it's gotten out of control it's gotten to where you know it's it's it's not truly journalism we just have 24 7 bashing of President Trump but again I just want to point this out that it's not it's not what we're told that it is it's not that Trump's telling the media to shut up about him the media can say what it wants to and this is a case in point with that but of course Smerconish continues here
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): you've seen them by now Easter Sunday open the effing straight you crazy bastards and then on Tuesday a whole civilization will die tonight the reaction at home was fierce unhinged screamed a drudge headline others called for invocation of the 25th Amendment on the grounds that Trump had demonstrated he was unable to perform his duties and Democrats anticipating retaking the House in November began using the I word impeachment
Todd Huff: pause all that we talked about a lot of those things right we talked about the calling the calling of even from some Republicans and I mentioned names on here I mentioned people like oh boy Candace Owens I mentioned Alex Jones I mentioned Marjorie Taylor Greene there you go I had trouble thinking of her name for just a moment for some reason there were others as well Republicans conservatives calling for Trump to be impeached or acting like his comments his posts on Truth Social which Smerconish just referenced there acting like that was the most dangerous thing and irresponsible thing that a president could say and do and so forth you know my thoughts on this if you don't you can go back and listen we just talked about these I guess last week it may have been last Monday because I believe those were tweets I believe on Easter if I'm not mistaken anyway so this is again the reaction and he's basically saying these people are blowing this out of proportion now why are they doing it are they just that I don't want to be mean here and say stupid but I don't know the right word are they ignorant maybe they are stupid maybe they just are blinded by hatred and rage what is it I don't always know we don't know what's really going on here fueling it I mean we do to a degree but case by case I don't know is someone just following the narrative is it easier to get these sorts of headlines consumed these stories get them past the editor is this the sort of stuff they want remember a few years ago ironically CNN I think it was oh boy Truth Veritas or Project Veritas James O'Keefe at the time or maybe it was after he left there but he had exposed he had exposed Truth excuse me CNN for basically the president of CNN would get on these calls with journalists and say we need some negative stories on Trump today that's the direction we want the stories and that's look this is manufactured so much of this is manufactured this isn't real what we're dealing with it's fabricated manufactured rage but it's out there and there are people even on my side your side politically who are looking for opportunities to show people where they are not aligned with Trump or think Trump is dangerous because they want I don't I don't know what it is if they feel like they have to say this earns me some some credentials some respect from the other side I'm not sure and it's okay to have genuine disagreement there's a few things that I've I've come out and said I don't like what Trump said or did about this but I am pretty clear on my position with when it comes to Iran there is nothing that Trump can say that is more of a problem than the Iranian Ayatollahs the mullahs getting a nuclear bomb there's no it's not even in the same universe we just had we just had a Artemis two splash down in the Pacific ocean I watched a little bit of that on a what was that Friday Saturday I'm not sure I watched a little bit of it and they went around the moon that's not even we're talking further away we're talking an Iran having a nuclear weapon is not even in this not in our solar system it's out there way far away as far as how far it is from say something Trump puts on social Truth Social or X or whatever something he says at a press conference it's remarkable here I'll play a little bit more than I've got to take a break.
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): Tuesday night 8 p.m Eastern deadline a two week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan was announced and something else happened on Tuesday the New York Times published a deep dive by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan sharing reporting from their forthcoming book Regime Change this was a granular reconstruction of Trump's decision to go to war with Iran
Todd Huff: I have to pause it there because he's going to give some context here and some deeper reporting and explanations on what was happening regarding the administration's talks about how to handle Iran whether to engage in war whether to what to do there's some reporting Maggie Haberman Jonathan Swan and again it's remarkable it looks like it may be real reporting for a change so I'll talk about that this is relevant I'll talk about that on the other side of the break but I'm up against the break right now my friends quick time out here for me you're listening to the home of conservative not bitter talk I'm your host the one and only the ever so beloved Todd Huff back in just a minute welcome back my friends going through some comments that Michael Smerconish made on his television show I think over the weekend by the way I have seen this at redstate.com you can get the links to this stuff things that we discuss here on the program all the other things that I don't have time to get to that I put in our daily inner circle email you can get that for free just text the word truth to three one seven seven eight five ten thirty but this is this is I'm reading this from Red State but it's a CNN clip that I've been playing here so we'll continue with this as we get more into this and there's some other things I want to share with you from this introduction to his segment here but friends let's be honest when your financial world starts getting a little more complicated you need more than one size fits all advice
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Todd Huff: OK let's get back into this before the break I had shared with you that Smerconish is going to tell the story and I'm going to let this run a little bit he's going to tell the story of what was going on behind closed doors as the Trump administration was trying to decide how to handle Iran this is important because this sort of thing is not known by the average person the the tweets or the posts on Truth Social where Trump says an entire civilization is going to die tonight people know that stuff people don't know this and this is what matters again this this confirms what we've been saying on this program for a long time Trump is trying to win a war Trump is trying to prevent the world from having to deal with a nuclear Iran Trump knows that well he just knows instinctively you can read about that in the art of the deal you can read about that in Sun Tzu's my brain is not firing the art of war just a little bit slower slower today I've tried to recall a couple of things that is just not I'm a little maybe a half step you probably don't notice it probably don't notice still probably seems lightning quick out there to you but to me I'm just half a step off anyway so he's going to tell the story and I'm going to let him tell it here I'm going to let him share it here this is from his program on CNN over the weekend but listen to what was happening behind closed doors when it came to talks within the administration about what to do about Iran.
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): for example Haberman and Swan didn't just summarize what happened on February 11 when Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White House to sell an attack on Iran they detail what was said by each participant in the Situation Room and also exactly where in the room everybody was seated by this account Netanyahu and Trump were aligned in hawkish thinking but there was skepticism raised by Trump's team the following day when the Americans met without Israeli counterparts CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Trump that Netanyahu's regime change scenarios were farcical Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it's both Vice President J.D. Vance was the most doubtful of the group quote nobody in Mr. Trump's inner circle was more worried about the prospect of war with Iran or did more to stop it than the vice president General Kaine chair of the Joint Chiefs said the Israelis quote oversell their plans and are not always well developed notably by this account Trump was dismissive of Kaine's concern that the Strait of Hormuz might be blocked by Iran and then in the final days of February new intelligence revealed that the Ayatollah would be meeting above ground with other top officials from the regime in broad daylight and wide open to air attack the president gave Iran another chance to strike a deal but Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reported from Geneva that the Iranians were playing games
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): on February 26th another meeting in the Situation Room ensued and during the course of an hour and a half the president said he quote wanted to go around the table and hear everyone's views Vance repeated that an attack on Iran was a bad idea but that he'd support the president's position after CIA Director Ratcliffe discussed the stunning intel that the Iranian leadership was about to gather above ground in broad daylight at the Ayatollah's compound the plan being presented to the president was legally permissible General Kaine told Trump he needed to decide by 4 p.m. the following day aboard Air Force One the next afternoon 22 minutes before Kaine's deadline Trump gave the order Operation Epic Fury is approved no aborts good luck I don't think that the Times reporting was a result of leaks I think the administration wanted this story in the public domain in contrast to those offensive and intemperate Truth Social posts which were intended for Tehran this window into pre war decision making was for the Americans
Todd Huff: all right I paused it there a lot to unpack I told you I was going to let that run for a couple minutes and I did so what is the gist of what he just said he tells the story of what happened behind closed doors when they were making a decision on what to do with Iran talking about Netanyahu coming having his meeting with President Trump trying to pitch a strike well strikes on Iran Trump was inclined to agree with that but then they got to work behind closed doors after Netanyahu went away and there were competing views within that room and the Times again random act of journalism as Rush Limbaugh used to say being conducted here by the New York Times and maybe also by Michael Smerconish I don't know I'm not as familiar with him I am somewhat familiar but for the New York Times to actually get some real journalism here is quite remarkable so they get together and they begin to debate it Rubio says something is BS J.D. Vance says he thinks that attacking Iran is a really bad idea but he'll support the president Ratcliffe CIA director Ratcliffe says that the administration well excuse me the Israeli position that there can be administrative change in Iran or I should say regime change in Iran is farcical is not living in reality so it's a delusional thought
Todd Huff: and so they start debating it and talking about it Trump's given a deadline then the next day he goes around the table and asks everybody's opinion on this and people speak up people tell him what he thinks by the way this is quintessential Trump this is perhaps it's one of those things that's most misunderstood about the guy people think or people want you to think that Trump just wants to be surrounded by a bunch of yes men that is not Trump's nature at all Trump certainly has instincts and preferences and sometimes there's no convincing the guy there's nothing wrong with that but Trump doesn't want to fill the room when he's trying to make the right decision and I just think about yourself if you're a secure person right and you're not trying to say do something for ego or you're so concerned about how you're going to look if you're just truly focused on what is the right decision don't you want people I know I do who don't always see things eye to eye with me in that room who have not just a different perspective but who have the intestinal fortitude to speak it to someone who might be seen as a strong leader
Todd Huff: well Trump is certainly seen as a strong leader or a very strong in his beliefs or opinions or ideas or whatever and not everybody is willing to do that and Trump is surrounded himself by people who have differing opinions and ideas and this is a good thing this is actually what you want this is the sort of diversity diversity of thought and opinion and perspective that we should seek to have in administrations not just superficial differences amongst people certainly we want a society that doesn't see race or ethnicity as either an advantage or disadvantage but you want to have the real diversity of opinion and insight and you want to be surrounded by other people who are willing to tell you I think this is a bad idea not just say what you want to say I've said before in meetings if I wanted to hear myself or excuse me if I just wanted people to parrot what I said I would just sit here and share my opinions out loud to myself I want to make sure we get this right Trump wants to make sure that he gets this right
Todd Huff: gotta take a time out my friends quick time out back in just a minute welcome back my friends going through again a lot of this well opening to Michael Smerconish's show on CNN where he somehow he and the New York Times have stumbled into understanding Trump and I'm sharing that with you because it's so refreshing to hear and again I don't have a little playful fun with this but kudos to Smerconish here for saying some of the things he's said realizing that Trump is not the madman that he's portrayed to be and you say well Todd sometimes he brings this on himself again I've tried to explain this I can't do it in this final segment but there was a couple of shows recently where I've talked about Sun Tzu's The Art of War Trump wants the Iranian people confused and uncertain about what we're going to do next in an attempt to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon at all costs and Trump has decided there is nothing he can say no threat he can make that is as dangerous as Iran having a nuclear weapon and I agree with that I do
Todd Huff: now the Strait of Hormuz Iran says it's open they've also said that they can't find they can't find all the mines they've planted which this is Iran so Trump basically said we're going to put a blockade on it we're going to be escorting ships through there we'll be blowing up mines whatever we have to do to get this thing open we're not playing games with the Iranians and that if you want to take away the lesson here that is or you want to take away that is the takeaway the takeaway if you're the Iranian leadership is that game time is over playtime is over Donald Trump is deadly serious again we'll go back to that quote that is anchored so much of how to understand the Trump administration again I did not come up with it it was used in a piece for the Atlantic and it says I'm paraphrasing here Trump supporters take him seriously not literally and the people who dislike Trump in the media or elsewhere take him literally but not seriously big mistake the Iranian leadership had better take Trump seriously while also understanding that every threat that he posts on Truth Social is not meant to be taken literally but it definitely signals that Trump is willing to do whatever it takes that's the takeaway to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon I don't know what's so hard to understand about this I really don't and I again I commend Smerconish for getting this he's talking about this for seven minutes in his opening monologue here or whatever it is
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Todd Huff: so Smerconish was basically painting the picture they sat around the table they debated it intelligence was given and this intelligence was shocking to them the Iranian leaders are going to be meeting above ground in the middle of the day so we have we have a date circled on the calendar where we think we can take them out and the administration said that seems very tempting they looked at the legal side and said can we do this what can we do legally and they said you've got the green light legally to act and so Trump had a period of time to make his final decision and he made that decision 22 minutes before the deadline and then of course we all know what happened afterwards I'm going to play a little bit more here's just the rest of it I'll get as much
Michael Smerconish (Soundbite): there's never been any reporting of Trump like that behind closed doors in other words it's not that there's a method to his madness it's that the madness is his method the trouble for the president is that he may have played that role too often during Trump 1.0 the world didn't know what to expect there was the British ambassador to the US who resigned in 2019 after memos that he's written to the mother country came to light one of which he wrote said this we don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less unpredictable less faction riven lessdiplomatically clumsy and inept but now writing in the Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan said she found the Truth Social posts horrifying hitting a new bottom and ineffective the reason the madman theory worked for Richard Nixon she wrote if it did was that world leaders knew he wasn't crazy but might be tripped into extreme behaviors by an adversary's intransigence
Todd Huff: okay I'm running out of time basically he's so close to getting it and instead of saying this is this is the strategy and accepting that and realizing that it is positively shaken up the geopolitical stage in a lot of ways from forcing our allies to start funding their NATO responsibilities to you name it on down the line my friends instead of doing that Smerconish says Trump needs to put this act behind him I couldn't disagree more with that my friends but I gotta go SDG.