Buried in this Monday piece about the difficulty Donald Trump would face in attempting to recruit members of a prospective Trump administration (if it came to that) is this nugget from Trump's team explaining that Trump has no interest in such policy experts right now anyway. Oh, and no interest in policy. Oh—and in fact doesn't want to hear or think anything about it, because his plan is to "figure out" what his actual policies for governing the United States of America might be after the November elections, and only if he wins.
A source familiar with Trump’s thinking explained that the billionaire businessman was reluctant to add new layers of policy experts now, feeling it would only muddy his populist message that has been hyperfocused on illegal immigration, trade and fighting Islamic extremists.
Touché. You wouldn't want to muddy your political message by adding facts or expertise to it. Damn experts, always fouling up perfectly good messages.
“He doesn’t want to waste time on policy and thinks it would make him less effective on the stump,” the Trump source said. “It won’t be until after he is elected but before he’s inaugurated that he will figure out exactly what he is going to do and who he is going to try to hire.”
So that's nice. He doesn't want to get sidetracked from his messages of hair-pulling fear and twitchy xenophobia with attempts to figure out just what the hell he might actually do, if the nation elected him to run things. Instead, he'll worry about it if it happens.
There's a whole two months between being elected president and having to show up, and quite a bit of that time is taken up with pointless holidays—surely that will be enough time to come up with some brand new national policies to implement and, once that's done, come up with people willing to sign their names to them.
So what's the takeaway message here? Trump 2016: Eh, we'll wing it?
It’s been said before and bears repeating: He's the perfect parody of a candidate. No satirist could do it better, nor would they want to. He's running because everyone else in America is, as he will tell you in nearly every speech, a "moron." How would he do things better? That's not important. He'll tell you later.
In the universe of Republican thinkers he's not even a Sarah Palin—he's a Tina Fey impression of a Sarah Palin. He can see Vlad Putin from his very, very classy front porch. And he just obliterated the entire Republican field, 100-plus years of political experience between them, just by being that self-styled parody of what the party's voters presume a perfect Republican candidate would sound like.