That Trump is a class act all around

[thewayne]

"Screaming at the top of his lungs...A maniac."
-- Donald Trump on Univision host Jorge Ramos

"Dividing the country by race...is what...Jorge Ramos was all about in that press conference."
-- Fox analyst Jeffrey Lord

"[Ramos] acted like an illegal alien, and got treated like one. He cut the line, was disruptive and then was deported, and then Trump let him back in."
-- Fox News' Jesse Watters

"Get out of my country. Get out."
-- Trump supporter to Ramos, who is a U.S. citizen

BTW, Jorge Ramos is a naturalized American citizen. To the best of my knowledge there's no provision in the Constitution of the USA that you have to lose your accent if you become a citizen. Hell, that in and of itself would disqualify Trump.

So Ramos has been trying to get an interview with Trump because of the inflammatory things that Trump has been saying about Latinos. Ramos sent him a hand-written note. Trump has consistently ignored him. So when Ramos gets a little loud at a press conference, Trump has him thrown out. And further reinforcing his image as a class act, just like Lindsey Graham, Trump posted a picture of Jorge's private phone number.

Yep, class all around.

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has been publishing a series of posts about Trump's use of neurolinguistic programming to sway people to back him based on sizzle, not steak. It's quite interesting, and quite frightening, to see what he is doing and seeing how successful he is at it. There's no way he'll get the Republican ticket nomination, the question is how disruptive he'll be for the rest of the election cycle.

And since we have 14 months to go, that's lots of time to see how disruptive he'll be.

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Relatedly, Trump piñatas are selling briskly down in the Mission. ^_^ "Mohammad, who claims that the stuffed/hollow Trumps are selling fast at around 30-40 every week and that he’s experiencing a shortage. In fact, the piñata supplier he uses in Sacramento and was told he could have only six when he placed an order for 40."

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Oh to be sure he is definitely one of these. See icon.

[silveradept]

Trump knows how to make a media circus, and knows that the person who makes the circus is most likely to be the person getting voted for by name recognition alone. The question is whether the primary process can stop him.

[cp.livejournal.com]

"There's no way he'll get the Republican ticket nomination..."

I used to agree, but now I'm not so sure. Every time he makes what once would have been a campaign-ending gaffe, his support INCREASES because he's seen as some kind of rogue outsider. I have to wonder how many of the Republicans who initially said they'd never vote for him only said so because they thought he was a no-hoper. I hate to compare the man in any way to Bernie Sanders, but it could be a bit of the same effect: lots of people who said to themselves "I like him, but he'll never win the nomination" and polled accordingly. Those numbers for both men seem to be changing.

Granted, the GOP establishment surely doesn't WANT him to win the nomination, especially now that he's spouting crazy talk about raising taxes on the wealthy. But I dunno, if he keeps polling so far ahead of the rest of the pack, I don't see how they could scuttle him.

I also saw an interesting point made by John Fugelsang, which is that FoxNews and their ilk (and maybe even the GOP itself) actually have a vested interest in seeing the Democratic candidate win in 2016, because they clearly do so much better when they have a President they can attack. And in the GOP's case, it's a lot easier for them to play Monday-morning quarterbacks than to take the heat of actually leading, while their current regime of gerrymandering, obstruction, and governance-by-crisis has been serving them just fine. So from that angle, I bet they'd all be thrilled to see Trump get the nomination--and then get trounced by Hillary (or, in my dreams, Bernie), who they can then project their Obama Derangement Syndrome onto.