It's easy to spot a grift... if you know what to look for and haven't traded rational analysis for cultist mentality.

"I mean, whoa, so many people killed I don’t know you can hear but the number was much bigger than they reported even this morning. It’s a very big number very, very big number."; -Donald J. Trump attempting to con people into thinking he's got an inside line on the war in Israel. How can one tell? It's easy: when he has no clue but wants to seem like he's at the bleeding edge of a thing, he talks about that thing in vague, fill-in-the-blank terms and leaves the rest to the listener's imagination.