Donald Trump isn’t playing chess. He’s playing poker.
And once you see that, American politics start to feel less like a grandmaster tournament – and more like a high-stakes table in Vegas.
This week on Searching for America, Robyn Curnow asks what happens when a country that increasingly thinks in bets elects a president who governs like a gambler. From tariffs and brinkmanship to Super Bowl wagers and prediction markets that price everything from elections to the end of the world, belief in America isn’t just argued anymore. It’s priced.
We’re living in an odds era.
So the question is: when everyone’s at the table, who’s bluffing – and who’s about to call?
Robyn Curnow’s podcast, “Searching for America”, examines the US from her outsider perspective – as a South African living in the American South.
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