A "manipulator" refers to a person who tries to control or influence others in a sneaky or unfair way, often to fulfill their own desires or gain advantage. Full definition
On the occasion of his first museum survey, the master manipulator of digital technologies explains his creative process and where portraiture is headed. (artspace.com)
Scripted by Noah Oppenheim, a former TV news producer and current executive at the Today show, Jackie is a movie with a historical thesis to argue: that the first first lady to take advantage of the television age was a master manipulator of image, a practitioner par excellence of the art of political theater. (slate.com)
The Treasury did not designate China as a currency manipulator in its recent currency report because it found that China's recent interventions were not problematic, he said. (fortune.com)