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This is a good example of the type of comment I would like to be able to downvote. Utterly braindead political clickbait.
The fact that journalists at a mainstream publication use the metaphor of machine learning to explain the actions of the president is noteworthy. Five-years ago you would be hard pressed for a journalist who thinks that his audience would understand machine learning enough to get the metaphor.