Donald Trump claims to be “self-funding” his campaign for President. In reality, Donald Trump’s campaign has been funded by free coverage in the main stream media. Recently the main stream media has pulled the plug on all the free coverage and if Trump wants to be President he will have to up his game big time. The following article in the Washington Times explains:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/27/kelly-riddell-donald-trumps-money-problem/
Trump clearly has a lot of money, but I wonder if he is ready to cough up the $1 billion big ones necessary to win the general election. It is a lot more fun campaigning with other people’s money. Imagine spending a billion dollars in a Don Quixotic pursuit of the impossible dream. Michael Bloomberg imagined that and decided, upon careful reflection, that he didn’t want to spend the money.
I am still not convinced that Trump even wants to be President. Perhaps he ran because he knew it would be good fun. He may be shocked that things turned out this way. There is no doubt that his ego wants to win, but at what price. In some ways Donald is running into the same problem socialists encounter. At some point, you run out of other people’s money.
It is obvious that the Trump campaign has melted down big time this week. One must either assume that Donald Trump is incredibly stupid, has zero control over his emotions, or he is sabotaging his own campaign. Donald Trump has his detractors, but few people would call him stupid. He clearly has demonstrated control over his emotions on numerous occasions and a lot of this sure looks like an acting job. That leaves one to wonder if Donald has decided he doesn’t actually want to spend $1 billion and he doesn’t even want the job. But, he is not about to tolerate the RNC ignoring both him and Cruz and putting in another RINO Republican establishment candidate. While Trump calls him lying Cruz, on several occasions Trump goes out of his way to say he agrees with “Ted” and that “Ted” is a really bright guy. I think Trump respects Cruz.
I am not exactly the only one seeing this:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433526/donald-trump-campaign-self-sabotage
There are even some people who thought Trump starting doing this long ago; it was just that his supporters didn’t notice:
http://healourland.net/2015/11/13/did-donald-trump-intentionally-sabotage-his-own-campaign/
I have always believed that the only one, who could stop Trump, is Trump. Perhaps Trump understands that too, which would be a pretty good explanation for what we saw this week.
TDM
Of course this was the same ignorant public who voted for Obama twice!!!
Never in my life have I seen such a sorry set of choices for POTUS. We know how bad things have gotten with “Big O the omnipotent”. Instead of a slate of clear cut choices, we are left to try to figure out who is the lesser evil to the good of the country!
As an aside, on our cruise to Australia last summer, we found in the Tahitian string of islands, all citizens are required to vote on all major issues and elections under heavy penalty of law. It should be so in this country and the electoral system should be done away with.
Trump got his behind in a sling this week by blurting out an unthought-out opinion on abortion penalties. Though it was just his unthinking remark, the interviewer from the agressive media insinuated Trump could pass his thinking into law. The ignorant public forgets that laws are the responsibility of congress, not the President. Of course this was proliferated readily by CNN (our so called “fair and balanced” news source.)