President Donald Trump is struggling to stay afloat as a series of crises he helped create continues to pile up, political guru David Rothkopf argues. Donald Trump for The Daily Beast podcast. “Trump is going to use that to his advantage,” he added. “Donald Trump is drowning in failure,” Rothkopf declared. And so he’s got to try these wild schemes to distract from it, to get attention, to hope it disrupts something.”