"From 25% in favor to 5 to 10% against.... It will be bad for America. It'll be bad for the world. So that was a foreign policy failure. He gets an F on that one."

"Canada — he gets an F. Sorry, sorry, I don't see any alternative. Please write to me and tell me if you're a Canadian or if you're American why he deserves better than an F ? Why should he have intruded on an election that was going to help the United States, going to help the world, going to help the economy? Why should he have intruded and turn the election around and turned it against the interests of the United States? So I don't see any justification — any justification — for that."

Said Alan Dershowitz, grading Trump on his first 100 days.

I'll bring up my question from yesterday: Does Trump know what he is doing? What if you had to argue that Trump knew what he was doing, that the seeming fiasco of the Canadian election was, in fact, exactly what Trump had in mind, a step in his genius plan?

ADDED: For the Annals of Things I Asked Grok (after quoting Alan Dershowitz):

Tell me the best justification. Maybe Trump is a genius and this is a multi-step process that he is seeing from a higher angle. Give him an A and explain why. 

Grok's answer here.

FROM THE COMMENTS: New Yorker takes the assignment seriously: