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Devious doubling of perimeters around emotional President? (3-4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eel-like

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'devious' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'doubling of perimeters around emotional president?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'president?' could be 'ike' (nickname of Dwight Eisenhower) and 'ike' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for eel-like that I've seen is " writhing and slippery?".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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