When I heard Mein Fufor’s unhinged rant about Russia hacking Hillary’s e-mails I was stunned. First of all, isn’t her server still under the care and custody of the FBI? My next reaction was to write a DIARY debunking his silly claim of 30,000 missing e-mails. Then I just thought about it for a while. This was just too over the top, even for Trumpentein, or was it? What’s the old saying? Oh yeah, “Desperate times call for desperate measures”. That’s it. And for Orange Julius, these are desperate times.
Der Trumpkopf seriously needs some love. He had his chance last week, and his four day combination of a Klan Konvention and a Charlie Manson speech to his followers disgusted and turned off anybody who wasn’t already a card carrying member of the Trombie Apocalypse. Whatever bump he got from his convention was minimal and will be easily overcome.
Now he’s getting absolutely Wookie stomped by a professionally run, sincere, inclusive convention, and it’s killing him. It turns out that somehow or other a lot of people like a little good news and Kumbaya once in a while. What’s a billionaire egomaniac to do?! Easy, take over the news cycle.
This is the real problem for The Killer “Do. This used to be as easy for him as breathing. Make a speech or hold a rally. In the early days he was a media dream candidate. Constantly available, always speaking and high ratings. They covered him slavishly, filling time with free entire speeches, to the point where other candidates quite rightly called out the media for it’s blanket coverage.
Even when the field narrowed and there were fewer primaries to hold rallies for he had no trouble controlling the news cycle. He simply got up at 5:30 a.m., brushed his teeth, lacquered his dead muskrat and kissed himself in the mirror. Then, at 6:00 he sat down in his throne and made his daily call ins to the morning shows. He got his story out first, “Live! via phone”, spewing his current brain fart and then left everybody else trying to respond to his pet peeve of the day. “The early bird gets the worn” and Trump was collecting enough worms for a year long fishing trip at the old homestead pond.
Then, disaster struck. He suddenly found himself a “serious” candidate. He cleared out the field, and became the presumptive nominee. Once he became a “serious” candidate it meant that the media had to change the way in which they both looked at him and dealt with him. The biggest effect of this was the loss of free airtime. With the sole exception of his slavish fluffers at Cluster Fox, the rest of the media outlets stopped taking his morning call ins. You want to say something? Fine, come on in, or we’ll send somebody over to see you. No more cheap coverage.
He has another problem. “Familiarity breeds contempt”. Both Howard Stern and Andrew Dice Clay rode to the top by being shocking and sexist. And they both peaked and started to slide when they could no longer find new and more exciting outlandish things to say. Same for the show “Jackass”. How many new gross stunts can you perform before it gets too dangerous to go there. As an audience we’re pretty easily bored. The shit is only funny once or twice, then it gets old and stale.
This is Trumps real problem. The shit that rode him to the top is now old and stale. In the last couple of months you almost never hear him even mention his big, beautiful wall in rallies, and when he does, he never follows it up with “And who’s going to pay for it?”. The judge in his civil case just ruled that the Trump U case could go to trial and not a peep from the Trumpster fire.
This is Trumps dilemma. His overpowering ego requires constant and powerful massaging, but he’s running out of options. Morning shows won’t take his phone calls anymore, and if he gives a press interview, interviewers keep making his life miserable by ignoring his blather and asking him stupid pertinent questions. He can no longer dominate the news cycle the easy way, he has to earn it now. And if there’s one thing that Trump hates, it’s having to actually earn anything!
The “Mexican” judge, Judge Curiel, taking a victory lap after the Orlando slaughter, banning all Muslims, now openly inviting foreign powers to come on over and pick through our secrets, just as long as they dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton while they’re at it. This is the price he must pay in order to dominate a news cycle. Just like Howard Stern and “Dice” Clay, he must become more over the top and obnoxious to keep people tuning in. The only thing that will stop him is when he finally crosses a line of taste that the news media cannot in good conscience cover.
There is actually an upside to this. Trump is well known for saying that “ALL media is good media” because it gets his fat stupid face on newspaper pages and t.v. screens. As long as he doesn’t get elected let’s hope he keeps it up. According to a heatst.com report Trump is in deep kimchee. In Q1-Q1 annual comparisons bookings at Trump properties are down an across the board average of 59% in 2016 as opposed to 2015, and some properties have seen plunges of 75%. How’s that for good press Donnie? Macy’s pulled all of his shit from their shelves, so did the Dubai retail giant Lifestyle, it has has pulled his items as well since Trumps call to ban all Muslims. They operate 160 stores throughout the Middle East. If the whole object of this long and ridiculous has been to improve his “brand” then Trump is changing the dictionary definition of successful branding.
Thanks as always for reading!