Posted on 12/01/2016 8:33:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The day before Thanksgiving in New York, I bumped into a Trump adviser who actually knows what is going on inside Trump Tower, as opposed to rumors inhabiting the media such as this Tuesday headline: “Trump’s Team Frays Over Romney.” The message I got was different: “It’s going to be fine. It’s going to be just fine.”
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[T]he Trump transition has been talking to and appointing some of the most accomplished and serious individuals in Republican and conservative politics. Donald Trump isn’t pulling rabbits out of a hat. Somebody at team Trump has a first-rate Rolodex.
By now, it should be obvious that the Trump operation exists in two parts. One half is the operation’s face, Donald Trump. The other half is the operation behind the face. Mr. Trump’s persona has often made it difficult to take the entire Trump phenomenon seriously. That, we learned, is a mistake.
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Exactly what I tried to tell my friends, etc. all year long.
Thx much for that.
So frustrating. I was at a gathering last night with libs who are still in mourning (delightful), and have bought the caricature that Trump is a buffoon, AND that Palin is an idiot, since they had heard she was considered for the VA job. They should shut up, wait and see.
Ill teach you to fish: Most places with a paywall don’t have the paywall when coming in from a google search result or google news. Depending on your browser and which addons you have it can be as simple as highlighting the article title or the first sentence they show, right clicking and search on google. Usually you see the full article when coming in from the google search. Works for WSJ, NYT, and many others.
Are they still afraid of admitting the credit goes to Donald Trump himself?
Nice trick. Thanks much.
"Trump's detractors took him literally but never took him seriously. His supporters took him seriously but never took him literally."
Why didn’t you tell your friends who said Trump was a buffoon how crooked Hillary was a traitor, a criminal for pay for play, how she is medically feeble and a drunk. Watch their heads explode. I look it.
That was the problem for me too. Trump came across as a total PT Barnum type who lived off of hyping himself and his show of the moment to gullible types. He never really said clearly what his plan was and, as for his working with more knowledgeable people, I didn’t think his ego would let him do it. Also, I didn’t like the fact that he only grudgingly agreed to parts of the GOP platform.
I voted for him only because there was no way I was going to write in (that’s a wasted vote!) or vote for any of the other candidates. And I was happy when he got elected, because Hillary would have killed what little remains of our country.
But I am really happy now because he is making some great appointments and seems to be able to listen to whoever is advising him while at the same time keeping up the “renegade” bond with his most devoted followers, which is also something that allows him to say some off the wall (because of his delivery) but commonsensical things.
This is a media age, people listen to 22 year old “Communications” grads or dumb morning show bimbos and believe what they’re saying, so maybe being off the wall and egocentric is what allowed him to do it.
Whatever, it’s a good article and it will be available free tomorrow.
Trump is doing amazing work already.
The stock market loves him—it’s been hitting historic highs. And Trump isn’t even in office yet. He’s already begun the process of righting the ship.
WINNER !
Well he didn’t become a billionaire by not listening to people smarter than him which actually makes him very smart and modest even though he doesn’t come off that way.
If you watch some of his older interviews and appearances from, say, the 80s, he was a lot more articulate and charismatic.
I am pleased with his choices to date. Palin in Veterans affairs would be very good.
“I was at a gathering last night with libs who are still in mourning (delightful), and have bought the caricature that Trump is a buffoon”
All the more delightful to enjoy their shock when President Trump quickly and effectively dismantles obama’s “legacy”, implements his promises, and gets our country rolling towards economic good times again.
I guess those who “never really knew what Trump stood for, or what his plans were,” never bothered to visit his website.
Or read posts on FR regarding his plans, or read his books, or watched old videos even though some of us posted links and information for months on end..
He was born into a NYC real estate empire, his father gave him the Manhattan portion, and then they put it under management. He was practically a billionaire since birth.
Donald Trump’s most successful individual venture was his media career, but a lot of people are really tuned in to media so that was probably a good thing. I’m not sure an ordinary GOP candidate could have won, even though both Rubio and Kasich way out-polled him in the contest against the Clinton machine.
I agree that he was better in his presentation in the 80s. I’m from NYC (Upper West Side!) and people liked him when he came out and did things like the Wollman Rink and criticized the dysfunctional Mayor and city government.
He always sounded quite rational and business-like. He ran or started to run for Mayor a few years ago - I don’t recall whether it was the first or the second De Blasio term - but he dropped it when there was opposition. And that was my other worry.
But everything seems to be okay now!
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