Richard Hogan: Donald Trump is trying to outwit all of us and we are all stumbling along blindly

It is very hard to make sense of Donald Trump’s presidency through the lens of sanity

Richard Hogan: "Every day is a constant chaotic feed of what the president did now. And we are all perfectly stumbling along blindly, rummaging through the latest madness." Picture: Moya Nolan.

Niccolò Machiavelli was the master of subterfuge and obfuscation. A sleight-of-hand trickster whose name became synonymous with political manoeuvring and expediency.

He was a morally bankrupt prince who once uttered into the universe that sometimes it can be, “a very wise thing to simulate madness”.