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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy Wild 2 Weeks Inside the Trump Campaign Bubble
PoliticoLAS VEGAS Monday was a day of rage for Donald Trump.
He woke up at his Las Vegas hotel, a gold brick of glass on the edge of the Strip next to an abandoned lot, and was already in a foul mood. The previous day he had seen a TV ad that accused him of belittling American soldiers. Losers. Suckers. Dopes. Babies, the ad said. Thats how Donald Trump describes our men and women in uniform. He had railed about it at a rally in Carson City a horrible, vicious ad! and it was still infuriating him later that morning. After seeing the ad, he screamed, I blew my stack!
Normally, Trump would be thrilled to wake up in a suite in a tower with his name on it. But on this day it seemed to do little to improve his mood. Just being in Nevada was a reminder of his troubles. He had lost the state in 2016 and the polls werent very encouraging this time around, either. The newest outrage was a New York Times story about low morale in his campaign. He phoned into a conference call for the press with his campaign manager Bill Stepien and spoke in a stream of consciousness for nearly half an hour.
Most of the time, when a candidate gathers staff to buck them up after some bad news, they inspire their supporters, praising them for all of their hard work and thanking them for their sacrifice. Trump handled the assignment differently.
Speaking slowly with his raspy morning voice, Trump stared with his anger at the story in the paper. You know theyre sick, actually, theyre deranged people, he said. Let me give you the real truth. They know this, too, by the way. Were going to win! But he soon meandered his way through more than a dozen other topics on his mind.
He woke up at his Las Vegas hotel, a gold brick of glass on the edge of the Strip next to an abandoned lot, and was already in a foul mood. The previous day he had seen a TV ad that accused him of belittling American soldiers. Losers. Suckers. Dopes. Babies, the ad said. Thats how Donald Trump describes our men and women in uniform. He had railed about it at a rally in Carson City a horrible, vicious ad! and it was still infuriating him later that morning. After seeing the ad, he screamed, I blew my stack!
Normally, Trump would be thrilled to wake up in a suite in a tower with his name on it. But on this day it seemed to do little to improve his mood. Just being in Nevada was a reminder of his troubles. He had lost the state in 2016 and the polls werent very encouraging this time around, either. The newest outrage was a New York Times story about low morale in his campaign. He phoned into a conference call for the press with his campaign manager Bill Stepien and spoke in a stream of consciousness for nearly half an hour.
Most of the time, when a candidate gathers staff to buck them up after some bad news, they inspire their supporters, praising them for all of their hard work and thanking them for their sacrifice. Trump handled the assignment differently.
Speaking slowly with his raspy morning voice, Trump stared with his anger at the story in the paper. You know theyre sick, actually, theyre deranged people, he said. Let me give you the real truth. They know this, too, by the way. Were going to win! But he soon meandered his way through more than a dozen other topics on his mind.
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My Wild 2 Weeks Inside the Trump Campaign Bubble (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2020
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catbyte
(34,386 posts)1. I can't imagine the chaos that goes on inside his head. I can't imagine how much it must suck
to be him. Seriously. Although, no one more richly deserves all that torment than him. The tragedy is that all of us have to live--and die-- with the fallout.
localroger
(3,626 posts)2. His life has never required him to cultivate a virtue
...and that includes the discipline to control his own thoughts. He has always acted on impulse and it has always worked out well enough for him in the end that he has never had to consider another strategy.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)3. We all know he constantly lies, but this lie is too much:
The Regeneron treatment he received is now available free to anyone who wants it.
tanyev
(42,556 posts)4. Marking to read later.