Want women NOT to vote for you Donald? No better way than to have your campaign associate with a guy who just doesn’t understand that sexual harassment is a major concern for working women.
Chalk up another dumb campaign move for the red team.
Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes is now helping Donald Trump prepare for the upcoming presidential debates
They get it. They just don’t care.
It’s not like there were many women left planning to vote for him anyway.
This will be great! Whenever I try to imagine anyone trying to teach the Donald about anything, what comes to mind is the picture that Bill Maher frequently shows of a grinning orangutang (supposedly Donald’s father). I’m sure that Ailes will manage to get the Donald to memorize a few zingers, and then the Donald will use them at the wrong time, in the wrong context, while desperately trying to avoid answering yet another question about something he knows nothing about.
You can’t fix in a few weeks the kind of abysmal ignorance, belligerence, and utter lack of interest that’s become entrenched over a lifetime. It didn’t work with Palin and it’s not going to work with Trump. They are equally stupid but the Donald has the added feature of pathological psychosis. All someone has to do is mention his short stubby little fingers and he might have to be physically restrained.
At least Sarah Palin realized she was out of her depth and actually wanted to do better. Neither is true of Trump.
Donald’s problem is not that he tries to avoid answering questions about things he knows nothing about. It’s that he answers them enthusiastically.
That’s half his problem. The other half is that when he doesn’t have an answer, he has no qualms at all about just totally ignoring the question and bloviating on about something entirely different. He did this quite a lot during the primary debates. The first time I saw this ploy in action, before I realized that lying was just Trump’s SOP, was during Trump’s birther attention-seeking adventure when he sent “detectives” to Hawaii to learn “the truth” about Obama, and declared that “you wouldn’t believe what they’re finding!”. When Trump was asked in an interview, naturally enough, to elaborate on what they were finding, he just segued into a completely different discussion, like the accomplished liar and conman that he is.
Unless Ailes becomes a physical face of the campaign (which isn’t likely) no one will remember this in two months. It certainly won’t help, though.
However, all Ailes knows how to do is play the media, and that is one thing Trump doesn’t need any help on. Not that Trump is going to listen to this poor person who worked for a rich person anyhow.
I suppose the reason they did this is that with Republicans jumping ship left and right, they had to find one rat stupid enough to board the Trumptanic.
I am sure this was not something they ever wanted to announce or make official. Trump and him are friends and Ailes just planned on helping him prep. So it’s harder for me to say this is a tone deaf move, he was just going to get a little behind-the-scenes help and somebody blabbed.
Perhaps Trump will have a few young women sent up to the suite for them to objectify a little.
My bold.
When I read this post, a light bulb came on over my head: Trump speaks in click-bait phrases. And delivers just about as much content.
The Click-bait Candidate. That …explains a lot actually.
I don’t see why this isn’t a smart move by Trump. Assuming he listens to Ailes (not a solid assumption), who else has Ailes’ high-level debate-prep experience, depth of resources and media savvy?
Ailes is also kinda poisonous If the campaign had managed to keep it quiet, yeah, good move. But…as it stands, it can only drive women away from Trump.
As I commented in the Republican pit Thread, Trump never had someone that told him about that old saying: “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Frankly, I wonder what Ivanka thinks. Is she back from vacay yet? She seems to have a better grip on the issue of sexual harassment than her male relatives do.
It’s not like he was going to find a job anywhere else.
I doubt he needs the money, and he is pretty old.
Not that Trump for a second would think Ailes did anything wrong, even if what the people at Fox said was true. (Which I suspect it mostly is.) Just more political correctness.
The people who are predisposed to vote for Trump won’t care - they’re gonna vote for the sonofabitch anyway. Those are voting against Trump will find other reasons. I doubt this is a game-changer, and it’s almost to the point where the game cannot be changed anyway. It’s just a question of whether Trump can keep his margin of defeat ‘respectable’ or close, or whether it turns into an all-out landslide. I am still skeptical that this will be an LBJ-Goldwater landslide - Trump could still make this somewhat competitive if the democrats and Clinton get more bad press. But perceptions start to solidify at this point and debates probably only matter in tight races.
Tactically, it’s one of the best moves Trump has made. Ailes was Reagan’s debate prepper, so he has a pedigree. The key question is, what do you do with a guy like Trump, who genuinely knows nothing about policy and has a tendency to fly off the handle when challenged?
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