There's a particularly useful term in fighting games called "option select" that I think applies well to the moves Trump has been making so far in office. An example would be something like buffering a special move after a punch: if you hit the punch, you get the special move afterwards for free without even thinking about it, and if you miss punch, the special move doesn't come out and you're not at a disadvantage. Its taking an action where both results are some degree of beneficial (or one beneficial and one neutral) to you.
For example, with this digital signature scandal:
If Trump can prove that the pardons were signed by someone else, we see justice served to these gangsters, the dems are in shambles for a decade, and the right gives a hip hip hooray to Trump.
If Trump can't prove the pardons were signed by someone else, Joe Biden is finally forced to publicly acknowledge "Yes I did pardon my crackhead son, family, cop murderers and rapists, the entire J6 committee and the man responsible for covid" and we spend another media cycle talking about how shitty sleepy Joe was.
