Remember a few months ago when an early Trump campaign operative came out and said the Trump campaign was not...

Remember a few months ago when an early Trump campaign operative came out and said the Trump campaign was not interested in winning, only getting to double digit polling?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Trump's not interested in being president. His message started resonating with the angry white middle class voter who needed someone to blame for their lost American Dream and suddenly he's the front runner and then the nominee.

This new information (if true) falls in line with Kasich's claim that the Trump campaign told him the VP pick would be the most powerful Vice President in American history.

He's even started laying the groundwork to get out of presidential debates. Everything he says and does is about not being involved in the process.

#DonaldTrump isn't interested in being President. He's been sabotaging his own campaign, talking out of his ass off the cuff, with no obvious interest in learning about domestic or foreign affairs.

He's Montgomery Brewster (+1 if you get the reference). And like Brewster he got swept up in his own wave of populist rhetoric.

The former reality TV star just trolled the entire nation and succeeded to the point he can't back down. He's the personification of life imitating art.

Don't expect him to crackdown and be the candidate the GOP can rally around. He's not interested. As the election gets closer expect him to go more off the rails.

The truly sad part is the 45% +/- percent of people who can't see this and continue to support him.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/17/michael-moore-donald-trump-does-not-want-to-be-president

Comments

Lily Alice said…
I fully agree. And I hate what it says about people.
Sam Moore said…
Love that movie! It's true!
Rob Gordon said…
This is completely plausible.
Plausible, but Michael Moore doesn't seem like the most reliable source for something like this.
Larry Maxwell said…
hahaha I KNEW IT and NO ONE would listen to me.. :P
Bodhipaksa said…
Several commentators put forward a theory that John McCain sabotaged his campaign because he was upset at having Sarah Palin foisted upon him.
Roberto Bayardo said…
Occam's razor suggests he's just a bozo narcissistic con man who is now fully out of his element, with no idea what he is doing. And Michael Moore is basically the Trump of the left wing. OK, not that bad but his views have too much spin for me to consider them credible.
Emlyn O'Regan said…
Roberto Bayardo​ I concur, he's a narcissistic conman with no plan. He'd love to be President, then everyone would pay attention to him all the time. He could get other people to do all the work; that's what rich guys do after all.

He hasn't changed, and his campaign hasn't changed. It was just always volatile.
Bob Lai said…
Sure, I can see the similarities to the Hugo Awards and the Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies. Egotistical bastard with hyper-conservative views spends his own money to get like-minded individuals nominated, exploiting the weakness in the nomination process.

But the end result is a broken system where authors of merit don't get recognized, because a bunch of jerks submitted Atlas Shrugged as Best Novel. (They're nominating works with conservative and socially backwards themes, because the Hugos are a liberal conspiracy that is biased against them.)

The only way to FIX the problem is to destroy the Hugos as they exist.
Emlyn O'Regan said…
Bob Lai​​ This article by Nassim Taleb is worth a look. On first blush it might appear to be anti muslim because of the initial discussion of Halal, but it ranges much further and talks about something much more interesting: the Minority Rule. It's really a bit of game theory. Basically, a uniformly spread intransigent minority can force the majority to its position. Like the puppies in the Hugos.
“The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority” https://medium.com/@nntaled/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
Jason ON said…
This was funny if not safe for work: https://youtu.be/PqmbBDuvsDo

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