Did Trump pretend to be his own spokesperson in the 1990’s?
This story is so bizarre I don’t know what to make of it—both the original story and the current Trump denial after supposed earlier admissions.
I’m not even going to try to wade through it at the moment, but there are tons of links there if you care to delve into it and come to your own conclusions. Here’s Allahpundit’s in-depth take on the matter.
Fun times, fun times.
Do we care? Ah – -are we caring about this?
Brian Swisher:
It goes to the issue of Trump’s veracity. I’ve already decided about that issue—so no, I don’t much care about this particular story. But for people who haven’t yet decided, that’s the potential importance of the story.
Trump’s Achilles’ heel is his self-promotion. A real property developer only needs to be promoted to people in the business like banks, insurance companies, construction contractors and local politicians. They may cultivate some local charity good will but will stay out of the limelight. If he was really interested in business he would not have spent a decade with “The Apprentice” as he could have made more money in real estate developments. I think he’s a fraud like the guy who sells seminars to show you his sure way to flip houses. If he’s as good as he claims he wouldn’t need Trump University, Trump Steaks etc. His biggest deals (Plaza hotel, Trump Casinos, Trump Shuttle) were disasters where he paid too much for the prestige. This fits in well with the overaggressive self-promoter.
His job as president would be to promote the interests of the United States. Obama has spent enough time promoting himself. We do not need a repeat.
Trump’s Achilles’ heel is his self-promotion. A real property developer only needs to be promoted to people in the business like banks, insurance companies, construction contractors and local politicians.
Wrong.. unlike politics, business is all about self promotion…
its a difference between top business people and others… you self promote constantly… its how you compete, its how you win, its how you get ahead of the others who are self promoting…
the advice is not to do it, but if you do, you end up like me, 12 years, no one knows what you can do, no raiseds, no promotions, and you lose to those that step in and promote themselves…
its THAT simple…
now that i am out of the crapper, i am self promoting my skills, talents and such, and am doing work for many departments, which got me exceeds expectations, a potential for a raise and promotion, and now i have job security i did not have a year ago.
you have to…
you are not a politician in which others are paid to promote you.
how?
your making the mistake that what got him where he is has to be abandoned once he gets there… but i will say that without self promotion, others will grab what you are waiting to be asked or given.
PERIOD
the advice not to comes from journalists who love communism and want this nameless group that never promotes, is not equal, and they feel if there is no competition, its nice nice nice…
is it?
How to Promote Yourself with Ease and Confidence
http://www.careerattraction.com/how-to-promote-yourself-with-ease-and-confidence/
and if you take the time to read the rest, remember there is no way to do what they ask to do once you stand up and are trying to appeal to the cener of a bell curve of 300 million people!!!!!!!!!
[edited for length by n-n]
(Negative Political Advertising: Coming of Age )
Author: Karen S. Johnson-Cartee
$209.89used & new(4 offers)
http://www.amazon.com/Negative-Political-Advertising-Johnson-Cartee-May-1991/dp/B010DQVWPW/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463169572&sr=1-2&keywords=Negative+Political+Advertising%3A+Coming+of+Age
the book will blow you away if you are not aware of the library of tricks and games used to manipulate people and their perceptions…aand most of these are refined techniques since the 1960s and 70s!!!
note, thats why i try to ignore emotional judgements or assesments… you can see, joe was here on this day, and said this, and so on… but the minute you get to how he appeared, how his hair was, whether you like him and his stuff is a great story, or hate him and its bragging… when you like him he is competent and so on, and not he is arrogant… these are NOT things the other controls these are things in our heads about others.
we may almost universally say a person is ugly
but to know if they are arrogant, we have to look into ourselves and our like or dislike of the other, as the actual reality of that is our judgment not a fact others all agree on!!!!
if you like a person and you think they are smart and you like to hear that, you wont think its arrogant to talk (ergo, we dont think most little kids who are prodigies are arrogant, but when they grow up, we hate them… (i know this all too welll as did many i went to school with who were also such))
like em, they are confident
dislike them, they are arrogant.
How to Overcome the Perception of Being Arrogant
http://www.noomii.com/articles/3618-how-to-overcome-the-perception-of-being-arrogant
and its going to tell you as they all do, what you should or should not say to manipulate the other into making a judgment of you you want…its irrelevant whether or not the point is valid, its all about controlling judgments
oh, and most of it has to do with not being who you are, but in hiding who you are so that the other person doesnt know you know the right answer, or can correct them, etc…
[and remember most of these things are written by journalists who actually dont knwo their subject right and or have a political motive and so on]
wilt chamberlain could play basketball better than 90% of the world… but if he was with someone and said the truth, would he be confident, or arrogant? and who is the arbiter? why is stating the truth arrogant?
because its all about how you control others perception of you… and this is where the necessity of self promotion nits the wall of perception of the audience…
i put that aside..
all i care about is if the assertion is true
aspergers tend to value truth over feelings!!! which is why they have a reputation for super brutal honesty!!
which is interesting in that term “brutal honesty”
why would the truth be brutal, and the lie be kind?
Brutal Honesty is the New Prozac
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/obesely-speaking/201512/brutal-honesty-is-the-new-prozac
we have neurosignatures of 40 years of negative media on trump… and we have more years of the pose of the politician, to the point that when they deviate from that pose, we see it as very negative… it doesnt matter if its valid or not (its not valid, most of these things have little to do with judging the right answer and best people. if they did, we would not be here discussing this bs… not only that, but we would not have communists running as liberals and not being seen… because THIS is what the left exploits… Trump is a bad man for being different in tone, behavior, etc… but bernie, he is not bad for having a prostitut ring out of his house, and hillary for her server, and kennedy for his kgb associations and chappaquiddick…
why?
because a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way…
Humans create consensual realities and make them real by subscribing to them, such as beauty, class, and total worth based solely on wealth or occupation. Who you really are and what you really want and need is an intrinsic reality. Who you are told you should be, and what you are told you should want is often a consensual reality. If you believe you are ugly, it is not because you are ugly — it is because you have subscribed to an incompatible consensual reality.
You must also accept people, places and things as they are. Acceptance is not acquiescence, apathy, passiveness, complacency, or endorsement — it is just more brutal truth. You have no control over people, places, or things.
You only control your response — and that’s all you need to control. When you pass judgments on other people, places or things, they become threatening.
“Something is not as it should be” will threaten the brain every day, all day long. Conversely, “I’m not into this, but this is how this is supposed to be, so I will respond in this way” increases the perception of control and decreases the perception of threat.
this is why hillary doesnt want to be judged by any of those crisis and scandals.. and the left is forcing you to judge trump on tons of things having nothing to do with the outcome, but we are falsely told it does…
Joe Friday said it best: “Just the facts, ma’am”
[he never actually said it]
This is a story of a tape made 25 years ago the Washington Post is unwilling to say “is Trump”, but only “sounds like Trump”, or “may be Trump”. It is amazing they can write so many words about nothing. The Washington Post has become Seinfeld. That is not a compliment.
You don’t have to go back a quarter century to find Trump manipulating the media to promote himself, then lying about it. Just wait until tomorrow.
@Rick – there is much about the media that is “about nothing” as it veers more towards “infotainment”. Very little consequential “real” news is given on the main broadcast TV channels anymore. That is part of what allowed Trump to happen.
But your emphasis is on the media, yet, if there wasn’t an appetite for this it wouldn’t exist. It is an interesting conundrum in a capitalist society – maximizing owner value vs behaving “responsibly” (according to OUR view of society, of course).
It is also the trap Trump set for himself. He venerates material from the National Enquirer, even might supply some of it himself, about those he opposes. So he can expect to be treated the same for his own stupid behavior.
IMHO, Trump should have said he did it just for the fun. But, that he did not, especially in the face of evidence that he did with his past admission, as Neo says, gives us all insight to his real character.
Expect the media to find more on Trump to highlight and mock.
It might turn enough off of Trump to make a difference.
@Art – Interesting read until…
“the left is forcing you to judge trump on tons of things having nothing to do with the outcome, but we are falsely told it does”
Um, no. Trump was/is actively courting the media. That is what the “$2B” in coverage is all about.
HE is the source of most of what the media plays for us, very often unfiltered.
With Trump occupying the airwaves across all media channels, he had virtually eliminated any oxygen from his nomination competitors.
They basically had no opportunity to get their message out, short of massive funding on a scale beyond a normal Presidential campaign itself (~$1B)
ALSO, that 24/7 focus on Trump drove away MOST coverage of Obama, his Admin, and Clinton, probably one of the biggest benefits the Dems have received.
Big Maq:
Correct IMO.
Art is our own Honey Badger (ht/ Blert) for Sir Donald, he just doesn’t care about conflicting details (certain facts).
It’s now being asserted that the tape in question was held by two individuals at the start.
The reporter lost hers — years ago. She never made a duplicate.
The ONLY other copy belonged to Donald Trump.
1) Trump attacks Bezos as being on a crusade against him.
2) Trump feeds the WaPo irresistible dirt — the tape.
3) The WaPo runs with it — and makes Bezos look like a hatchet man.
4) By brining this issue out, it’s defused, made “old news” — Clinton-style.
One is reminded of Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger” schtick wherein the hero tells the president that instead of denying his friendship with the deceased felon — that he go entirely the other way — and shut down any follow up.
Donald, KNEW this sword was hanging over his head.
He has just cut it down.
As long as Donald can control the tempo of the MSM — he can deflate their dirt discoveries by taking all the excitement about them — into a pre-mature calendar.
Practically nothing revealed now will matter in the Fall. The greater public is still not paying attention. And the Press will not want to retread tired material that’s wholly overexposed… regardless of merit. ONLY new news is worthy of print.
THAT’S the formulation that Trump has realized.
Artfulldodger.
I hate to be arrogant, and I don’t have your permission:
Barney had a male-whore running call boys out of his house.
Barney Franks, the Big Wheel in the House of Representatives.
An item that ought to have hounded him from office — was tossed off as merely amusing.
Whereas it exposed his arrogance, his astoundingly BAD judgement, and his queer value set.
( Arrogant ? Barney routinely let it be known that his IQ was 160+ )
Artfulldodger.
By Kennedy we must assume Ted Kennedy.
And by KGB, we assume you’re talking about his ‘back channel’ game with Moscow.
If you are not aware, Barry Soetoro pulled the exact same stunt with Tehran — in 2008 — he sent back channel go-betweens to Tehran ( Valerie Girl ) to assure them that they ought to stall ANY negotiations with Bush II — as he’d REALLY treat them well.
He has proved as good as that pledge.
His VERY first public address was to Iranians — by a tape recording — the day after he was sworn into office. (!!!)
blert:
Your theory would make more sense if Trump had said “Yes, of course, I was just joking with the media. A practical joke—don’t you have a sense of humor?”
That’s essentially what he said about it years ago. That would have defused the whole thing.
Instead, he denied it, despite the previous admission from him. That makes him look like a liar, and a pathological liar at that. Why deny it? It’s not even so bad, if it was a sort of joke.
But I do agree with you that most people aren’t paying attention, and most of the rest don’t care anyway, because they’ve made up their minds about him.
neo…
I’m for Trump in the Fall…
And I don’t want to be.
The good guy lost.
See Cohen.
David P. Goldman:
It’s Alien vs Predator
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-15/election-2016-alien-vs-predator