Trump Holding Meeting With Advisers to Reassess Strategy

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is gathering his top lieutenants, including members of his family, in New York on Monday to discuss a political strategy shift as he looks to move beyond recent missteps.

Trump is facing pressure from within his own inner circle -- including from donors -- who are growing increasingly frustrated with what they see as a lack of coordination and communication, members of Trump's staff told Bloomberg Politics, at a crucial moment in the presidential race.

There's also a growing impatience among some on Trump's payroll that the candidate has failed to fill key roles within his campaign, including traveling press secretary and communications director, while Democrat Hillary Clinton's synchronized political machine capitalized on a string of negative Trump headlines.

Trump has, however, brought on board Keith Nahigian, a veteran GOP strategist and former campaign manager for Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign. Nahigian, who couldn't be reached for comment, is currently working on campaign's surrogate strategy and it's unclear if his role will be expanded in the coming weeks.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-20/trump-strategy-meeting

[PJMcK]

1. From the headline...

... I assumed Mr. Trump was talking and listening to himself again.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Can Trump be rehabbed? It only last a few hours and he relapses.

[winstars]

3. Nahigian, former campaign manager for Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign...

Not quite the "best and the brightest" IMHO LOL



More from the article:

Still, one adviser described the campaign as overwhelmed. Another said the campaign has been unable to focus Trump on more specific events, such as visiting shuttered factories or failing schools.

Manafort and Lewandowski have played down their rivalry in discussions with Republican officials -- and to their boss. Trump doesn't carry a mobile phone or use e-mail, giving staff in close proximity—most often Lewandowsi—greater influence. “Corey and Paul get along great,” Trump said in a Bloomberg Politics interview earlier this month. “If they’re fighting, I get rid of one or the other or do something.”

[moose65]

11. Wait, what??

Trump doesn't carry a mobile phone or use email??? How quaint.

[winstars]

14. No paper trail. No phone records. Roy Cohn probably suggested this method, from the grave...

He just uses a black Sharpie and loose leaf paper; you can see his "notes" sometimes when he is speaking, written (scribbled) with a black Sharpie.

And how about all those stories of him writing over articles about himself with a black Sharpie, ripping the article out from whatever magazine or newspaper it was in and then sending his "response" by messenger to the author of said article. WTF is that about?

Yeah, he's a real 21st century type of guy!!!

[Sunlei]

4. Republicans will never wipe that stain of YEARS of Birther billboards &anti-American obstruction.

Even if Republicans try to toss trump away likes he's used toilet paper, Republican stains remain forever.

[MyNameGoesHere]

5. What are we up to now? tRump 3.4 or tRump 4.0?

I keep getting confused at all the reprogramming to make him human.

[7962]

6. Strategy? He has a strategy? nt

[geek tragedy]

7. There is no better trump. There is no presidential trump nt

[tanyev]

8. Might want to start by getting him a thorough medical evaluation.

Something ain't right.

[bigworld]

13. Have you seen his doctor?

Seriously, it's like Trump in disguise.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/meet-harold-bornstein-personal-physician-to-donald-trump/

[tanyev]

15. That was strange, wasn't it?

I've read several times that he's a germaphobe--you'd think he'd want the best doctor in the city, not someone who's just as nutso as he is.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Once he gets Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin

on board to bulk up intellectual ballast

the juggernaut will be complete

It'll be a Golden Ager Beauty Pageant

[Friend or Foe]

10. You can't make this stuff up!

Of all the miscreants in Repug Campaign strategy circles, He, Trump settles for Michelle Bachmann's manager? His campaign is quickly transcending the divide between reality TV show and a failed sitcom pilot.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Trump reminds me of a famous Dorothy Parker quote.

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).


Advisers can analyze and recommend all they want, but Trump is impervious to outside advice. (Their best bet is try to convince him that their advice was originally his own idea.)

[OldRedneck]

16. Michele Bachmann?

You mean THIS Michele Bachmann? I don't think it's campaigning Trump has in mind.

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[yellowcanine]

17. Well this should work out well.......

Trump has, however, brought on board Keith Nahigian, a veteran GOP strategist and former campaign manager for Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign.

[dawnie51]

18. Have all the meetings you want.....

Trump listens to NOBODY. He will no doubt agree to some suggestions and before he leaves the room, he will be destroying that agreement in his head, and within an hour, he will be ranting and raving as usual. He is pathological.. He cannot stop himself, nor does he want to operate in any other manner. Trump is the three year old who has never been told no. He cannot be controlled or advised to normal behavior.

[Mike Daniels]

19. "...is currently working on campaign's surrogate strategy "

Does that translate to bringing in competent people? If so Palin and Carson better start looking for new work opportunities.