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Originally posted by JO753:
The Fox vs Trump 'war' iz probably a sham.

Theory A: This iz Trumps exit plan. He never wanted to be prez, but he haz gon too far this time to just do hiz usual drop out routine. So, a carefully planned feud with Fox will ensure that he cant win AND boost ratingz all around. Everybody winz!

Theory B: He really duz want to go all the way this time, but he and Roger Ailes (the hed uv Fox Cable Newz) knew that he coudnt win az 'The Fox Newz candidate' in the actual election, so they are orchestrating this pro-restling style show. A bogus fite that tellz the story they want us to believe AND it gets covered by all the real newz outlets.

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Originally posted by G:
I was skipping through the channel wasteland the other night and Trump was somewhere in the south at a podium babbling about something (himself no doubt). I thought, "I'll see what he has to say." I couldn't last a minute. After he mumbled about how "as you know... or maybe you don't... most people know I own the famous insurance building in San Francisco... I got a great deal...."
It is as you say, as unreal as the WWF. I can't believe anyone with more than 1 marble has any serious interest in him being president. I'm hoping that they're only interested in watching the very expensive car crash in very slow motion. People will be done with him soon because he is on the verge of committing his greatest mistake: he's becoming bad TV.

fwiw - I think he's having more fun doing a sh*t ton better than he thought he would, so any deal is dangling in the wind for now. When he peaks he'll revisit - the art of the deal.

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Theory C: Announcing his candidacy has become a vanity-stroking exercise, like the reality show. But he became irked by not being taken seriously and tried a little harder this time. Enough people had been goaded into a state of chronic rage over the last 8 years to listen to anyone - any outsider - who would publicly throw their tantrum for them. So then, he kept performing and they kept cheering. He said any old thing off the top of his head, and they didn't care whether it made sense. They didn't care if he was inconsistent, abrasive, obnoxious, disingenuous. They don't care that he's not really interested in their problems and has no solution: they read into his speeches whatever each one wants. The more outrageously anti-PC his speeches were, the more backlash support he picked up. So he plugged into that energy. They're high on adrenaline; he's high on adulation. Ego-surfing. No real plan. It's just another kind of revivalist meeting - the biggest one, ever.

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