What a dunce! Had he even said boycott Fox News and leave her show and name out of it he’d have been better off.
This must look even to hardened Republican women that he has a major trust deficit with women in general. It’s also obvious he takes no counsel from anyone in his campaign staff, like his daughter Ivanka where he could simply ask: if I say this, will it offend anyone?
I know what you wrote about how GOP candidates writing off rape annoyed the fux out of you, but if Reince or whoever becomes the new chairman asks you to write the new autopsy, tell em that you are busy.
Figuring out how an ‘ugly tree’ died isn’t that hard…
Biting the hand that not only fed him, it birthed him and nurtured him for this moment. At some point you need good press. Donald doesn’t care, because his people are largely illiterate.
The Don’s world is showbiz, where the media are encouraged to write anything they like, as long as they spell the name right. By taking exception in public to anything considered a “slight,” the subject gets to keep the story alive for several news cycles. Taking exception is a multiplier.
He is living in a bubble, protected from scrutiny. He will leave it eventually.
This dude has a thin skin, coupled with an an infallibility complex that can now be ranked first in the world. This is going to get a lot more entertaining, exponentially more entertaining.
Trump is compelled to keep after Megyn until he achieves some sort of victory. Ain’t gonna happen dude. For all her disrespect for truth and justice, Meg is a few light years ahead of any ability Trump can demonstrate.
Absolutely true but what drives and sustains the Donald is bigger than all that.
That’s the key to Trump-the ego and the narcissism- because he honestly doesn’t need this in the same way that conventional politicians who have sought the presidency as the capstone to a career.
This is about knowing that you can achieve the goal by playing the game and pushing the right buttons and understanding in the most cynical way imaginable that people are easily manipulated by visceral appeals and consistency is not something that matters in an environment that has a short attention span dictated by a 24 hour news cycle.
His run is impervious to the traditional checks and balances because he has mastered the ability to choose his outlets, like Twitter, to create the reality he wants or to deflect and spin knowing that the cult of personality he has created will carry him through.
It’s as if he has studied all of the best of the opinion spinners over the last thirty years and found the magic key to it all.
Cynical? Yeah.
Effective? Hell, yeah.
If Trump were to win ALL the upcoming Primaries which are Winner Take All, he would STILL need to win on the average 48% or higher to get to 1237 Delegates.
Nate Silver states that it is not a done deal that Trump will get to 1237 before the Convention. Secondly, Lawrence has mentioned (and GOP honchos are starting to parrot) that other Conventions have taken place with candidates arriving with “almost” scenarios of Delegates, resulting with multiple votes. There are also facts dealing with the machinations of the Convention itself.
Finally, Trump has been identified as the sixth greatest threat to the security of the Planet by the Economist.
No viable society leaves its Security in the hands of only one option or process. In the case of Trump, if he should get to the General Election, it would be that “he is highly likely to lose”.
But what if the outcome does not work out as planned? The safe play is to never let him get that opportunity in the first place. The nation which would put its Security at the risk of One safeguard (electoral preference in the General Election) would be as negligent as the motorist who starts on a highway journey without a spare tire.
“The Nomination of Donald Trump for President would be the most irresponsible act by a political party in the last 150 years”
–Gautam Mukunda, Asst. Prof. Harvard Business School–