Donald Trump is the presidential candidate that idiots deserve, and it seems they’ll get exactly that.
Let rewind a bit to rehash exactly how Trump became a presidential front runner in 3 steps:
1) Build a complete myth that you’re a great self made business man and sue anyone who tries to correct the record :
While Donald claims he’s worth 10 Billion Forbes and most other financial experts but his net worth somewhere around 4 Billion. Certainly a lot of money either way. Consider though that had he’s just cashed out the 500 Million dollar company he inherited from his father in 1982 and put that money in an S&P indexed stock portfolio he’d have about 20 Billion. If he’s have handed his money over to a man with real business acumen like Warren Buffet (buying Berkshire Hathaway in 1990) he’d probably be worth over a 100 Billion. www.moneytalksnews.com/…
Imagine Trump had retired in 1982, sold his real estate holdings and invested his $500 million in the S&P 500 — that is, 500 stocks representing the American stock market.
From 1982 through the end of 2014, the S&P 500 index had an annualized return, including reinvested dividends, of 11.86 percent, according to MoneyChimp’s S&P 500 Compound Annual Growth Rate calculator.
Per this calculator, every dollar invested in January 1982 would have been worth $40 by December of 2014. That means Trump’s initial $500 million would have grown to $20 billion. That’s twice what Trump says he’s worth today.
I believe the heart of Trump psychosis is his complete and utter failure to be one 1/100 the builder his father was, (albeit probably a racist one en.wikipedia.org/… ) Nothing worse than a born on third billionaire with daddy issues.
2) Launch your Campaign with paid actors that to manufacture “excitement” about your candidacy.
Now to a normal politician this alone would have been enough to kill a candidacy. The media however barely called him out on this. They saw in Trump a potential ratings magnet, and If I give Donald credit for one thing, it’s his ability to manipulate the corporate media.
"The Art of the Deal:"
"One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better … If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you."
He knows that corporate media producers are whores for “the get”. That exclusive interview or piece of private info he can give out is worth ratings points and in turn ad dollars. He’s extremely media savvy.
3) Build the illusion that people are flocking to see you.
I wrote this months ago about the media handling of Trumps Astroturfing;
The Truth About Crowd Totals and America
It’s amazing to me that still Donald Trump goes on shows and claims over and over again that he has “the largest crowds by far of any candidate” I’ve yet to see a MSM talking head challenge Donald Trump on this. His Alabama rally (Which was built off xenophobia & racism) had a generous 20k at the most. Still his largest rally and 8k behind Bernies LA rally. It seems EVERY Trump rally is over reported by a factor of at least x2. He gets few hundred people in ballroom in NV and he calls it 10k. After about 2 months of faking his crowd numbers and 24/7 media coverage touting the Trump “movement” (neglecting to discuss that nearly 100% of the crowds he’s drawing are white people) the illusion of a grassroots movement starts to look like reality.
As a Bernie supporter, the level of MSM malpractice and laziness is astonishing. The ease at which Trump was able to dangle bright shinny things (lies, racism, xenophobia, violence) and eat up every minute of their air time while a genuine grass roots movement was happening under their noses with ZERO coverage. Even now as the Dem race stands at 52-51 in real delegates (Supers are not going to overturn “will of the people” they are there to discourage only), at 45% in national polls (remember when he was at 6?), and only 3 states in, the MSM talking heads are already looking for any excuse to write off Sanders as having “no path to victory” (I respectfully disagree.)