Correction!
Trump is not competing for the GOP nomination for president.
He is negotiating for it. There is a big difference. So far he has sucked in Hillary and Univision onto the chessboard. Like a bunch of amateurs they took his bait and in the process he is all alone at the top getting millions of dollars in free publicity.
The WaPo misquoted him in this article. He never said...Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.” He said that because we had porous borders criminals and rapists are getting through in massive quantities. Big difference!
So now Trump is sucking in the WaPo,Hillary, and Univision. He is opening the negotiations and if you have read the “Art of the Deal” whether you want to make the deal or not you first have to pound the terrain to see who the opposition is. In the process he is sucking all the oxygen from the republican and democrat wannabes. This is all by design.
Trump is in the first round of a bull fight where the bull is his opposition and he is in the process of digging in those small spears in the bull’s back starting a slow bleed. He is jabbing, jabbing,jabbing just to see what the opposition looks like.
Then we have Trump on Foxnews saying that Univision’s apology to Trump is not accepted, that he is going to sue them for breach of contract, and for defamation. Trump knows media and business and right now he is being masterful.
If he is not sincere we will soon see. If he is, he is now demonstrating that he can handle himself and twirl the media and his opponents around his finger.
He is getting all the opposition to give him millions of dollars in free publicity and quite frankly he is saying all the right things.
Let’s see what he comes up with. If you have not read “The Art of the Deal” get it and you will understand what Trump is doing. Don’t underestimate the guy who knows how to fire when things are not going right and who knows how to get things done.
As I said let’s see how the negotiations go. It will be fascinating. So far you get the impression he is totally in control and everyone else is reacting off of him. If you get them to react, react, react they will lose. Look how quickly the Univision executive apologized less than 24 hours after he opened his mouth. The executive now realizes he will cost his company tens of millions of dollars hence the apology.
As I said let’s see what the matador comes up with.