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Good morning, Catherine, another good read! Iāll bet the younger Trumps would be furious, if they had any sense, they should have him fall into a real Soap Opera tumble and develop amnesia.
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Heās conducting business in this campaign. The business plan doesnāt require he win the nomination; it may require that he actively pursue NOT winning it.
His ābrandā he says isnāt being helped. That strongly implies his brand is suffering, which IAE we can see, AND that how much itās suffering STILL holds less value for him than whatever it is thatās motivating this deliberately self-sabotaged parody of a presidential campaign.
Perhaps heās promised credit for projects for which he otherwise has had difficulty, even no success, securing capital. Perhaps heās delivering on his end of a debt relief bargain with one or more billionaire members of the political donor set.
Thereās definitely something going on here.
Billionaire Trump and Candidate Trump have the same ego. And that ego will never admit he is wrong or that he made a mistake. It will be hard for him to quit the race.
If he does, it will be before he has to release his financials.
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Trump will get Mexico to re-imburse him for any losses. If not them, then China. Simple.
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A blowhard that takes to heart the advice:
āI donāt care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.ā - George M. Cohan
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Itās becoming a ābutt pulls plugā story.
My God. That thing has reproduced?
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His kids are all bigwigs at his company. Donald Trmp Jr. is probably the most displeased.
Heās like an out of control teenager, albeit one with an ego the size of the Jupiter and surrounded by servile sycophants and āYesā men, and even negative attention is preferable to no attention. At the moment he simply is draining the life from the other Republican clowns in the GOP Primary Clown Carā¦and they have to be seething.
He may drop out of the race, but one hopes he will stay in long enough to do maximum damage to that cesspool of a political party and his rival GOPigs.
Of course, when he does make his almost certain exit along the way, he will announce that he had much more important things to do than be president; it wasnāt worth his time; and he would have won YOOOOOOOOOOOGEā had he stayed in.
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I honestly donāt see him dropping out. Itās not like he has an actual set of proposals that another candidate could adopt, allowing him to claim victory and leave. His platform is essentially himself, the greatest negotiator in the history of humankind, before whom all adversaries will bow down and all trade competitors will crumble. Sure, another candidate could say he wants to build a wall on the border, but none of them can build a wall like Trump. So, by definition, he is the indispensable man (though, as DeGaulle note, the graveyards are full of indispensable men).
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Trump was going to save us all from ISIL but he couldnāt get past the Mexican border.
When he realized that Latino insurgents are how he makes his money, he quietly and behind the scenes kept funding the invasion.
He doesnāt want to build a fence, he wants to pave an international highway with toll bridges and little Trump quickie marts.
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As long as he keeps getting attention, heāll continue to do whatever it is heās doing.
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His ego will NOT let him stop. Just wait till that first debate when Fox News, Hate Radio and Right Wing Pulpit Pimps all line up to kiss Trumpās ass after our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press declares him the winner of the debate. Heās gone All In and heās not going away.
More and more Trump in 2015 reminds me of Goldwater in 2014. The teabaggers are flocking to Trump today the same way the Radical Right flocked to Goldwater in 1964.
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What a H-U-U-UGE asshole!
When is that first deadline?
If anybody forces Trump to pull the plug on this campaign-of-ignorance it will be the investors/developers who pay Trump premium feeās to license his brand on and to promote their properties. They stand to lose the most from this ill-considered debacle. Trump has licensing income tied to these properties, whose owners are the oneās at most risk of losing their investments.
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This man is a dangerous psychopath. But the fact that he is at or near the top of the Republican race demonstrates the utter depravity of the Republican party. If this were a reality show, which in some ways it is, no one would believe that this person is what he pretends to be. Further, if this were a fictional show on TV about politics, it would fail miserably as being utterly unrealistic and unbelievable.
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tacky 1:a : characterized by lack of good breeding b : shabby, seedy 2 : not having or exhibiting good taste: as a : marked by lack of style : dowdy b : marked by cheap showiness : gaudy
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My contention, having now heard all of Trumpās speech: in my lifetime no equally clownish major-party ācandidate.ā Palin at least a gov
ā James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 17, 2015
I think itās going to be tricky to predict what a person so fundamentally mercurial and unserious will do by looking at rational self-interest, past patterns of behavior, or really anything else. The harder you try to understand the world as it really is, the less you can imagine what it looks like in Trump-O-Vision. I imagine heāll get bored with this so-called campaign eventually and leave it out in the rain like a spoiled childās birthday bicycle. But when? No idea.
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