Trump's showmanship is now backfiring on him

[CatWoman]

(CNN)President's Donald Trump's showmanship is failing him as fears mount of a new spike in coronavirus infections and after another shooting of an African American man raised new questions about police brutality.

Instead of addressing such questions directly, Trump is grasping for made-for-TV moments designed to enhance his personal aura -- a device he has used to some effect in his presidency but that is now emphasizing his disconnect with many Americans and struggles to manage crises besieging the White House.

The President's television producer's eye leads him to seek dramatic tableaus that create his preferred image of himself -- strong, defiant, tearing down establishment structures and trampling the normal etiquette of the presidency.
In the most recent example on Saturday, Trump's attempt to wrap himself in the power and prestige of the military failed at a West Point graduation ceremony apparently put on for his benefit, when his creeping walk down a ramp triggered so much social media mockery that he felt the need to explain it in a tweet of his own.

And for all his tweets about law and order, he didn't weigh in on the latest apparent incident of police brutality -- the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in the back in Atlanta, which led to the resignation of the city's police chief -- while secluded at his New Jersey golf resort for much of the weekend.

The President's now notorious march to an iconic church in Washington, DC's Lafayette Square, after protesters were forcibly ejected, was meant to project strength to his supporters, but turned into an emblem of his mismanagement of the George Floyd protests and severely strained his relationship with current and former military brass. A high iron fence erected around the White House then turned into a symbol of the President's disconnect with changes sweeping the nation. Trump's instincts throughout the aftermath of Floyd's death with a police officer's knee on his neck have been to leverage the situation to advance his own political prospects -- rather than to cool tensions and seek national reconciliation. Over the weekend, for instance, he pounced on Major League Soccer's policy of backing the rights of its players to protest during the National Anthem.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/trump-white-house-showmanship-backfiring/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1xwky-I4b54IKbQmQKkJhJBT6l4kwn20eXgbhhsukufprcCgkudjvjybA

[livetohike]

1. Trump looks more pathetic every day. A frail, mentally disturbed,

ego driven, sad man.

[CatWoman]

3. look at this shit

Craigslist ad for Tulsa:

Link to tweet

?s=20

[mr_lebowski]

5. Literally anybody can post a Craigslist ad ...

Random people have been doing this all along.

Just sayin'

[stopdiggin]

16. yeah. that really doesn't even deserve any attention.

Thanks for getting there before I did.

Almost certainly bogus. And, if not bogus .. then pathetic.
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[Tess49]

32. Many here, in Oklahoma, don't think its bogus. It won't be too difficult to find out. n/t

[stopdiggin]

33. the "paid protester" "paid actor" schtick

is mostly bogus .. and mostly right winger-talk radio-conspiracists fodder

(Undeniably, there are such things as false flags, fake news, dirty tricks .. and other informational skullduggary. But most of them are a bit more sophisticated and thought out than a Craigslist ad. Most of this low level stuff is just some dorky incel making something up as a goof. Hilarious right?)

[Tess49]

34. Thanks for your insight. I need some. I can barely think straight these days!

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Just wait

until the city of Tulsa goes broke because of the cost to their city for police, traffic, security, etc etc.

Trump and RepubliCONs will stiff them, just like every other city they have had rallies in.......LOL

[chia]

13. This is truth. He's losing the optics battle repeatedly and bigly.

[GemDigger]

2. If they made ramps and steps a little steeper he may be scared enough to just stay the hell home.

[usaf-vet]

14. Unfortunately steps and ramp standards are set by state, federal, and local building codes.

Those codes would not allow ramps with one foot of drop over a foot of run which is what we need in this case.

[PJMcK]

20. We need a six-foot drop

If you understand my meaning.

If you don't, ask Dr. Samuel Haughton.

[usaf-vet]

26. I do, we are on the same page.

Over a 6-foot run, you would ls have a 6-foot drop. I'm guessing that ramp was 30 feet in a run that would equal a 30-foot drop.

It would only take one step forward for gravity to take over.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Lets see,

it has taken CNN since January of 2017 to finally run this on their Web page.

My take is,if this was not evident from the get go,well,you really were not paying attention.

[pwb]

6. The everyday Man Makeup is a hoot.

And that ugly blue suit looks like a tent.

[fierywoman]

9. The man makeup when he holds his pasty ghostly white hands up to his face...

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. This article was at the top of the CNN front page - people are noticing. nt

[Wounded Bear]

8. This reality TV show sucks. I vote we don't renew...nt

[PJMcK]

21. We have to vote Trump off the island

Isn't that how the game show works?

[Blue Owl]

10. The Shit Showbloat

n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Whiner in Chief

flash the Bible and tell us how trodden upon you are

[maxsolomon]

12. The one ray of hope I held on to in November 2016 was my certainty that his act would wear thin.

It was not a complex act. It was enough to fool the foolish once.

Now, most everyone is tired of his act. Unless you have blinders on, you can see he's overmatched by the job and the times.

[Warpy]

15. He's been hamfisted and bloody minded from the beginning.

The only change is that people are finally beginning to tire of it, "overexposure" being a real thing in showbiz. Yes, the money is great, but people can see too much of your character and will start looking for something new.

His personality disorder makes it impossible for him to reinvent himself in a new character, so look for his act to continue to wear poorly. He'll try to keep topping his own stunts, and that will wear even worse, especially on the three legs to his support: religion, police, and military.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Agreed

There are likely many middle of the road folks who have burn out.
It's no longer different, shocking, or amusing. There's the burn out. Overexposure, indeed!
For us, it was that way before PINO ever announced his campaign.

[txwhitedove]

17. America needs a leader, not lame photo ops and tweets.

[hibbing]

18. "his personal aura"

Really, who rights this garbage?

Peace

[Nitram]

27. Trump's "personal aura" is the foul stench of corruption that follow hime wherever he goes.

[luvallpeeps]

31. Could also be his diaper. Yea, that's the ticket. Corruption and caca.n/t

[Skittles]

23. he is a dictator wannabe

who fails to understand his pathetic supporters are the minority and very much out of touch with what most Americans want for America. I've said this many, many times: America will survive Donald Fucking Trump, but there REALLY needs to be changes made to the requirements for the presidency. Start with ALL PEOPLE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT *MUST* RELEASE THEIR TAXES.

[Corgigal]

24. Showmanship?

Also, known as a Con Job.

[Tipperary]

25. He looked pretty damn bad at West Point too.

He is a fool.

[CatWoman]

29. it's like all his photo ops are blowing up in his stupid, orange face

[Cha]

28. BLOTUS is a FAILURE. #WaterGait #Biblegate #Bunkergate

[maxrandb]

30. So, I see we've reached the sweaty males in onsies level

in the death of the Retrumplican Party. Cannibalism can't be far behind. It's like watching Lord of the Flies, Retrumplican Edition.