Donald Trump chessmaster meme
Donald Trump the 4D chessmaster was a meme that emerged during the campaign season preceding the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. The meme was a response to what some perceived to be "incredible strategic foresight" demonstrated by then-candidate Donald Trump[1] and his supposedly intuitive use of mass media.[2][3] Scott Adams is credited with coining the metaphor in mid-September 2015,[4][3] when in his blog, he explicitly described Trump's political opponents as having "no persuasion skill whatsoever" in framing the political conversation, with Trump a three-dimensional chess master to their two-dimensional game.[5] According to Know Your Meme, the spread of the phrase as an Internet meme started on 4Chan's /pol/ board on May 13, 2016, following leaks of a 1990 audio recording of an unknown Trump publicist, followed by its spread to Reddit.[3]
Others challenged this depiction; one headline in The New Republic said "he is not playing chess or 3-D chess or even checkers",[6] and after the election, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said "whatever Trump's doing, it isn't chess".[7][4] Columnist Jonah Goldberg called the whole notion "frick'n bonkers."[2]
According to CounterPunch, the game of chess has long been used as a metaphor for strategic political thinking, especially in the context of the Cold War,[8] and is implicit in the title of Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 The Grand Chessboard.
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References[edit]
- ↑ Herrman, John (2017-05-31), "The Enduring Appeal of Seeing Trump as Chess Master in Chief", The New York Times
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jonah Goldberg (February 14, 2017), "Donald Trump's 4D Chess, Political Master Myth", National Review
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Trump Is Playing 4D Chess", Know Your Meme, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chess grandmaster says whatever Trump's doing, it isn't chess, The Week
- ↑ Scott Adams (September 15, 2015), "2-D Chess Players Take on a 3-D Chess Master", Dilbert blog
- ↑ Alex Shephard (March 2017), "Trump's tweets over the weekend proved that he is not playing chess or 3-D chess or even checkers."", Minutes (blog), The New Republic
- ↑ Edward-Isaac Dovere (November 21, 2017), "Garry Kasparov Would Like You to Stop Saying 'Trump Is Playing 4-D Chess': The retired grandmaster and Putin critic is not impressed with this president.", Politico
- ↑ Louis Proyect (September 25, 2015), "Chess as Metaphor", CounterPunch
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