Aides not telling Trump red states “looking worse than they should” to avoid upsetting him: report

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/15/aides-not-telling-red-states-looking-worse-than-they-should-to-avoid-upsetting-him-report/

29 Comments

  1. It’s funny that one of their attacks against Harris is she’s mean and hard to work with.

  2. atomsmasher66 on

    Trump surrounds himself with sycophantic Yes Men. This is what happens when you do that.

  3. NotCreative37 on

    I am fine with not telling him. Let it be a surprise when NC flips, GA stays blue, and he wins FL and OH by 2 points.

  4. WhatAPresentSupplies on

    “How did they like my speech?”

    “Well sir, everyone is talking about the hannibal and shark references, there are articles everywhere saying….”

    “I knew it! They love me, they’re talking about me.. everyone is… I’m not a fraud I’m not a fraud I’m not a fraud”

  5. Adorable-Database187 on

    This has some delightful similarities with generals telling their leader everything is ok.

  6. Smart tactic. He is visibly shaken when he thinks he is losing and he has zero input into strategy so what good does telling him do? Better off deceiving him and feeding him positive media. He has absolutely no juice this year, it’s really obvious, so this is the best way to try and counter that.

  7. SuperGenius9800 on

    He’s showing more signs of acute dementia every day. He lives in an alternate reality. WTF was going on with the tic tac thingy yesterday? He’s bonkers.

  8. Like his base, he’s terminally online. He’ll read this headline and throw spaghetti at the wall

  9. He can’t win a fair election. It’s looking increasingly unlikely he can win even with the unfair electoral system that’s massively tilted in his favor. They still plan on reinflicting him on the people of this country no matter what happens. People need to expect that and be prepared to resist it.

  10. OMightyMartian on

    This is the part in the movie where the leader assures everyone Steiner’s counterattack will win the war.

  11. I remember late in the 2020 election, when the Trump campaign was running out of money, they sunk a ton of money into advertising in the DC area. It had nothing to do with gaining votes. The reasoning was to appease Trump when he was watching TV in the White House, to give the perception of ads running regularly for him. The ads ran in DC, Virginia, and Maryland, all places he was polling below Biden and unlikely to recover support in the lead up to the election in November 2020.

  12. His handlers are legit scared that he will *continue* to go on a psychotic tirade and lose even more voters.

    I know much of centrist America isn’t paying attention now, but as we get closer to the election, the more of his weird ravings are going to get through

  13. Just keep showing him the clippings where his name is mentioned positvely.

    >Trump administration officials are keeping memos to one page and using lots of visual aids like maps, charts, graphs and photos. They also have strategically included Trump’s name in “as many paragraphs as we can because he keeps reading if he’s mentioned,” citing a source who described a briefing session with National Security Council officials. – [NYP 2017](http://nypost.com/2017/05/17/how-trumps-aides-trick-him-into-reading-press-briefings/)

  14. He rages out an anyone that suggests hes doing poorly. So they dont tell him. Then he rages at Fox for posting polls of him losing, so they pretend everything is ok. Then his supporters tthink hes doing great and brag at how everyone seems to be “coming to their senses” when they only talk to people they know are trump supporters.

    Then when election day comes the bubble pops and they see how he gets wrecked. But then it contradicts every single day of propaganda. Could it be we were lied to? No no it must have been stolen! Thats the only rational explanation!!!

  15. This is exactly why he shouldn’t be president again. No one in his inner circle tells him anything straight. This is probably why his COVID response was so bad in 2020. People telling him BS or sugarcoating what should have been told seriously.

  16. I find it odd that Trump says Kamala has a low IQ. This is going to backfire spectacularly during the debate. LOL. I will be watching. He’s a fool.

  17. The ego fragile pedo felon is not fit to be the shift manager at a Pizza Hut, let alone president.

  18. skitarii_riot on

    Can we just buy a fake Oval Office desk, stick it in a jail cell, and let the confused old racist grandpa sit in there? Give him an unplugged microphone and a cardboard camera to tell the same nonsensical hateful story over and over into and he wouldn’t bother anyone again.