May I remind you of what I wrote back in December of last year?
I would like to return to the vexed subject of Donald Trump for the last but one time. Current discussion in the media, when not pontificating on Mr Trump's all-round ghastliness, tends to focus on his chances of becoming the GOP candidate for the presidential election. The assumption is at all times that Donald Trump actually WANTS the nomination and even the Presidency.
Nowhere, outside the columns of this blog, is serious consideration given to the possibility that Mr Trump has absolutely no intention of becoming President of the United States; to the interpretation that he looks upon the whole exercise as anything other than one giant ego trip, one last fling.
And yet, it is the only analysis that makes sense. At 69, he knows that he is not getting any younger and that this is certainly his last chance to command public attention for any length of time. But never in his worst nightmares has he ever wanted to be President of the USA. What a boring job, and what about that wall?
Would he like to be the Republican candidate? Possibly, if he could then be absolutely sure of losing the election itself.
Even now, at this late date, no-one else (apart from somebody writing a belated article in The New Yorker) has cottoned on to this essential truth. Donald Trump himself must be wondering what he has to do for the media not to take him seriously. More worrying for him, he must be wondering what he has to do for voters not to take him seriously.
But I have good news for everyone: Today's article in The New York Times should mark the end of Donald Trump as we know him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/
I would like to return to the vexed subject of Donald Trump for the last but one time. Current discussion in the media, when not pontificating on Mr Trump's all-round ghastliness, tends to focus on his chances of becoming the GOP candidate for the presidential election. The assumption is at all times that Donald Trump actually WANTS the nomination and even the Presidency.
Nowhere, outside the columns of this blog, is serious consideration given to the possibility that Mr Trump has absolutely no intention of becoming President of the United States; to the interpretation that he looks upon the whole exercise as anything other than one giant ego trip, one last fling.
And yet, it is the only analysis that makes sense. At 69, he knows that he is not getting any younger and that this is certainly his last chance to command public attention for any length of time. But never in his worst nightmares has he ever wanted to be President of the USA. What a boring job, and what about that wall?
Would he like to be the Republican candidate? Possibly, if he could then be absolutely sure of losing the election itself.
Even now, at this late date, no-one else (apart from somebody writing a belated article in The New Yorker) has cottoned on to this essential truth. Donald Trump himself must be wondering what he has to do for the media not to take him seriously. More worrying for him, he must be wondering what he has to do for voters not to take him seriously.
But I have good news for everyone: Today's article in The New York Times should mark the end of Donald Trump as we know him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/
I doubt if this article will have any effect on the people who vote for Trump, if indeed they are even aware of it. This seems a very middle-class view! But you are probably right, all the same. Bad luck on Trump (and the the rest of us) if the numbers stack up in his favour, as they still might as Mrs. Clinton certainly has her detractors.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happens, it's very soon going to be hangover time in the USA!
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