Rick Wilson: Please don't entertain the illusion that Trump did the NABJ racial attacks deliberately. He has no control

[highplainsdem]

of his mouth, brain, or behavior.

This is stochastic racism, not 56th dimensional chess.

Link to tweet

[gab13by13]

1. The Reverand Al dealt with TSF for 50 years

he knows TSF better than Rick Wilson. I believe the Rev when he said that everything TSF said at that sit down he meant to say.

TSF regained the narrative, even Rick Wilson is talking about the sit down

[newdeal2]

7. This line of attack was coming no matter what

Even if he didn’t go to this event.

[displacedvermoter]

11. Regained the Narrative?

I don't understand, really.

I mean, the crazy guy on the subway screaming about the voices he hears in his head also has control of the narrative, by way of volume if nothing else, but he's not swaying anyone's opinion. And if you ride the same subway regularly, and hear the guy repeatedly screaming the same nonsense, that doesn't lessen your conviction that he is nuts, and that steps need to be taken to get him help, or at least off the subway.

[newdayneeded]

33. I agree, all i see are people

calling him crazy! He didn't one single vote from this appearance, not one!

[krkaufman]

38. Well ...

… the stories talking about Democratic enthusiasm and record fund-raising appear to have disappeared. Trump knows the media and American people have a short attention span, so doesn’t expect, for good reason, that he needs to worry about longer-term blowback from the appearance and comments.

[displacedvermoter]

48. I guess that would make him the world

champion at making lemonade out of lemons.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

56. NO.

[Blues Heron]

2. I dont believe it wasnt deliberate

Of course he knows what he is doing - he is maximally slippery. Dont be fooled - he is a reality TV professional, he knows exactly what he is doing.

[Cha]

50. That's giving the Sick Racist Fuck too much credit.

[dwayneb]

59. Agreed - underestimate this piece of twisted human garbage at your own risk

[samnsara]

3. but im pretty damned sure he was happy with all the headlines

...UNTIL the prisoner release this morning....

[chicoescuela]

4. I think Rick is right. There is no plan. He says something crazy and

then his campaign creates a plan. He has almost zero control of what leaves his mouth

[dalton99a]

5. He does this shit at every opportunity. Race is the most important thing on a racist's brain

[Dave Bowman]

26. And his brain is barely working.

[TwilightZone]

6. Disagree. Just about everything he does is deliberate.

It's amazing to me that after a decade of this, people like Rick Wilson still don't get it. Trump is an actor playing a role.

It doesn't have to be 56th dimensional chess. It's just another racist shout-out to his base, from a guy who has a history of similar behavior. It's not any more complicated than that.

[wnylib]

13. But the orange weirdo is not playing a role when he

spouts racist garbage. Racism and misogyny are the only two genuine beliefs that he has, besides his belief in himself as the center of the universe.

[Cha]

51. It's in his DNA and he's Not playing with a full deck.

TY

[MontanaFarmer]

15. I agree it was planned.

It is being covered differently than in 2016. His miscalculation this time is trump fatigue. Those independents who may have been intrigued by a guy who just says anything, has passed, and the press is better about hitting back now. I think yesterday went over great in the Maga base but I don't think he got one vote, and likely lost some in the middle.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. What did Fred and Roy teach weird and creepy old Sleepy Don?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-the-bully-how-childhood-military-school-shaped-the-future-president/

From a very young age, Donald Trump was taught there were only two kinds of people in this world: winners — or “killers” — and losers.

[ ... ]

Fred Trump decided to send Donald at age 13 to military school, where the lessons in how to dominate would reach another level.

Trump follows tested 'counterpuncher' playbook in face of indictments
Aug 17, 2023Trump has long said he lives by two hard and fast rules: Never back down, his father, Fred Trump, taught him. And always hit back, 100 times as hard as you got hit, his lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/17/trump-counterpuncher-playbook/

Go back and watch the first 3 minutes of the NABJ video. He considers the first question and questioner to be very hostile and he hits back.

[Cha]

52. And, look who's ending up the Biggest LOSER now.

TY

[Hermit-The-Prog]

61. I want that thing enraged every day by how Kamala Harris is beating him.

[Cha]

62. Ketchup coming out of his EARS!!

[spooky3]

29. It's a shout out to his base, and it's his counterattack on women and POC

Whom he feels entitled to abuse if they make him uncomfortable by reciting facts about his behavior. His bigoted narcissistic ego is damaged and rather than take responsibility and make changes, he feels they are in the wrong and lashes out.

[demmiblue]

34. +1

[krkaufman]

39. Yep, just checkers

Agreed. It’s been his modus operandi from the start, constant chum thrown to the media.

As for this, consider all the free air time GOP politicians are getting to bash Kamala’s policies when asked to defend Trump’s comments.

[dwayneb]

60. Just another dogwhistle to the racist scum that continue to follow him

He knows this role so well he could play it in his sleep.

[servermsh]

8. Correct!

This is the correct take. Trump is a weirdo goofball racist without any impulse control.

[John Shaft]

9. Indeed

racists are hard-wired for being racists. They cannot help themselves. It's a state of being.

Chump is gonna racist NO MATTER WHAT.

To decent people, Chump's diarrhea of the mouth is repellent and abhorrent.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Agree---I am seeing posts claiming the genius of Donald Trump.

[displacedvermoter]

14. But you don't agree with them, do you?

And fewer and fewer people seem to be buying into that, and he didn't look like a genius yesterday, far from it!

[Kingofalldems]

54. Of course not.

Oh but one poster claimed just that.

[Celerity]

23. He doesn't have to be a genius to spew racist AF rants in a desperate attempt to whip up his shitbag base + get attention

[Cha]

53. And giving the Sick Fuck Way too much credit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. He was reacting to perceived hostility just as dead Daddy Trump taught him.

[lindysalsagal]

16. He wanted to re-establish himself in toe 24/7 news cycle. Now, it's already old news with the prisoner swap.

He's totally imbecilic.

[krkaufman]

40. Disruption

It’s just as much about disrupting the media coverage, and his racist attack was effective in diverting coverage from Democratic enthusiasm, record fund-raising, Kamala’s youth vs his age, etc.

[demmiblue]

17. I believe it was deliberate.

Link to tweet

[ecstatic]

19. A New York judge showed us that trump knows how to shut the fuck up

trump is a performer, a carnival barking con man.

In trump's mind, he "crushed it" yesterday.

[Celerity]

24. the crush I want to see:

[niyad]

37. Now this makes me smile!

[wiggs]

20. NABJ was not an isolated incident. TSF has a lifetime record of racism which

media loves to ignore. It is who he is. The first journalist to ask a question gave a partial history of his racism, which is completely appropriate and refreshing. Context! Haven't seen any outlet say that the premise to her question was just scratching the surface

Just as when he lies...media looks at it as though he hasn't lied before...as opposed to noting that it's not the first lie, it's the 48,327th lie and by now we should just assume that he's lying every time he speaks.

[wiggs]

21. Nixon would be proud that his 'southern strategy' still works in some states. Add in a dose

of misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia and...you have a close race.

[maxrandb]

22. Yep...hopefully, we aren't 1930s Germany. I guess we will see

"It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us … whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again …" - Adolph Hitler

[Wednesdays]

25. Well, TCF did the NABJ racial attacks deliberately

Just not as part of a strategy.

[usonian]

27. All he firgot was the tiki torch.

[Dave Bowman]

28. "This is stochastic racism, not 56th dimensional chess."

He barely qualifies as a mediocre checkers player.

[gab13by13]

30. Wesley Clark has an article out today

about how people underestimate TSF. It is an excellent read. I forget where I saw it.

Found it, from The Guardian, a good read.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/democrats-underestimate-trump-wesley-clark

[global1]

31. Why Is It - No Matter What Tr**p Does Or Says - That We.....

always say it is/was his strategy (and he is a great campaigner) versus that what he does or says - is just the ramblings of a very weird and dangerous man?

Why are people giving him more credit for yesterdays embarrassment he brought on to himself. Why don't they tell it like it is - he shot himself in his foot.

When Tr**p loses in November - it will be because he was himself - responsible for his own undoing.

[gab13by13]

32. Wesley Clark disagrees with your assessment

read the article right above you.

[global1]

36. I Read The Article You Referenced And.....

I'll stick to my posted assessment!!!

[Kingofalldems]

44. Not we--some.

I read OPs day after day from one particular poster declaring Trump a genius and today is no exception.

[Demobrat]

35. He went there to get a talking point out there

and he did. If it had not been there it would have been somewhere else, but that venue was perfect.
Kamala switched her race when it was convenient. No matter what he was asked he would have answered with that BS. It was his purpose for being there. JMO.

[Sky Jewels]

41. He came out furious (fact checking/no clapping)

and just let out every racist thought that came into his brain. He has the self control of a toddler who had too much sugar at a birthday party.

[Warpy]

42. Wilson is right. Early dementia is making his personality disorder more obvious

and every time that man opens his mouth, shit will pour out. He can't help it.. It's who and what he is and always has been. He was just able to control it well enough to do that gig as a "reality star."

No more, the filters are being disabled.

[Martin68]

43. I don't entirely agree. I think Trump mixes up the "strategy" his advisors have tried to get him to follow with

unplanned impulsive outbursts of his naked ID. So it's a weird mix of planned and totally spontaneous crap. Which is weirder by far than either a planned strategy and an uncontrollable flow of emotion and neuroses.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Therein Lies The Problem

He's not a strategic thinker, but even if others around him are (and I see limited evidence of anything other than tactical thought), he's not able to stick to a plan.
So, even if there is a "strategy" (which again, I question), it doesn't matter.
Like Tyson said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." In TFG's case, they have a plan until a microphone goes hot.

[czarjak]

45. Your "former" Party, Rick.

How Did this happen?

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Agreed!

We had folks here promoting that notion yesterday.
I pushed back as there has never been evidence that's he's capable of strategic planning, let alone the discipline to stick to a plan.
He just went nuts and this is the result.

[Cha]

49. Yeah that's what I went with Yesterday

when it was put forward that TSF was doing it deliberately.. Some grand strategy. NFW

I said "GMAB"!

TY

[Klarkashton]

55. Simplest answer is he went there to do the same old

Shit and he did. Nothing special. Even the rude stuff, he's been doing that for years at press briefings.

[Martin Eden]

57. Donald's buttons can be pushed, which means...

...He can be manipulated into self destructive behavior.

[bigtree]

58. I dunno

...it was immediately followed by a barrage of like tweets and other social media posts.

It looked coordinated. Not sure what the point is in deflecting blame or intention away from him.