In a rare move for the Trump campaign, a spokesperson has admitted a key misstep that has led to “a few bad news cycles”. There is no word yet on when Meredith McIver will take the blame or if the campaign will lay it at the feet of Corey Lewandowski.
First Mistake: “Nuclear Option” Headlines Confused the Candidate
This is the explanation being given for the story “broken” by Morning Joe “Trump asks why US can't use nukes”. Apparently, two news articles had become incorrectly clipped with the wrong titles. This led to some “confusion” in the campaign.
The article that was supposed to be flagged for reading was How grieving mothers became the nuclear option of campaign politics at The Washington Post.
The article that ended up getting attached to that headline was IOC president hits out at Wada’s ‘nuclear option’ over Russia’s Rio Olympians at The Guardian. Sources say the mixup resulted from a request for “Russian, President, Nuclear stuff” by the candidate.
According to the source:
“Mr Trump has a great relationship with many world leaders and is, of course, a big fan of Team USA at this summer’s Olympic Games. IOC President Bach and Mr Trump have golfed together many times and Mr Trump is steadfast in his opposition to Performance Enhancing Substances. When they were recently discussing the Russian doping scandal, Bach began discussing the “nuclear option” of banning all Russian athletes. This was the nuclear option that Mr Trump was asking his briefers about in the reported story.”
Second Mistake: Trump Misunderstood the Meaning of “Political Capitol”, Thought it Was Money
This one is uncorroborated so far but a source familiar with the Trump family has cast doubt on the candidate’s understanding of his own reasons for running for President.
Admitting that there “has been some confusion on the plane”, the source revealed today that Donald Trump watched a George W Bush press conference in 2004 and thought that “political capitol” was the same as “capitol wealth”. Rumors that Trump also thought he would make money by being in the “Capital City” and be in charge of lost letter delivery when he bought the Old Post Office Building in DC have also been floated.