HOW TO PLAY THE TRUMP CARD. Charlie Martin tries to make sense of The Donald:

He can say all the things they want Republicans to say, and he gets all the free press he wants. He clearly loves it too: whenever anything — terrorism, Clinton’s ongoing email scandal (remember that?), Benghazi and the repeated lies from the administration — threatens to become a political story that’s not about Trump, Trump says something new and outrageous, and the legacy media story is all about the outrageous thing Trump said. Again. No one has benefitted more, politically, from this than Hillary Clinton.

There seem to me to be two explanations for this.

One of them is that Trump really does want to be president, and thinks this is the way to do it, all — in Jonah Goldberg’s phrase — for the Greater Glory of Trump. After all, a term as president and he can really raise his price for a reality show.

The other is that he’s actually doing this to help his great friends the Clintons, who came to his wedding and whom he was very complimentary about just a few years ago.

I just wish I could tell which one to believe.

I’m not sure either — I’ve had a serious case of Trumphrenia* since his emergence on the scene this summer, but feel free to break out the hammer and tongs and hash it out in the comments below.

* Soundtrack by Dee Snider, not Pete Townshend, alas — at least for now.