This used to be a popular theory when Trump did something stupid every single day.
Don't be distracted people warned, this is just him trying to cover up for the stupid thing he did yesterday.
Eventually people realised he had no plan and no filter and no consequences so the stupid was never going to stop.
> One common claim about Donald Trump is that he often says and does things not only for effect, but with the specific goal of distracting the public and news media from something else he wants to keep hidden. The claims have circulated for years, especially on social media; for example one Facebook post recently stated that “Trump’s quixotic attacks on immigrant children, Denmark, and American Jews are horrible, but even though we can’t ignore them, they are obviously meant to distract.”
https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/the-trump-distraction-quas...
