The standard modus operandi of all reality TV shows. Survivor, The Apprentice, the Great Race, bad mouth the competition, screw everybody over, cheat, connive whatever you need to win. That is the Trump philosophy, run the campaign as a reality show. But at least he is staying true to form. My NYC neighbors telling me he has spent his whole life bullying and suing anybody who challenges him or disagrees with him.
His “whole life.” Sure. Except of course for the 99.99% of it spent doing constructive things.
I think there's a lot of truth in that. Trump's experience has been in doing a lot of things where how you win doesn't matter. But in a 50 state primary, convention, and then subsequent general election, how you win catches up to you.
Another thing that I think is interesting about Trump's business experience is that he's never worked for anyone else. He hasn't started at the bottom, worked his way up, etc.. He was born into being either the boss, or the boss's kid, who can say whatever he wants, and whose jokes everyone will laugh at. You don't learn the same kind of filter that most people do because what your underlings think of those kind of behaviors isn't that important.
Everyone isn't laughing at his jokes anymore.
Then he should not be very popular in New York, where people know him, right?