Trump's Ugly Media Obsessions: 'Fat' Meghan McCain, 'Bitch' Katy Tur & More
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It was the middle of the day on the fourteenth floor of Trump Tower in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, where a ragtag group of Trump loyalists monitored and synthesized the unending stream of news coverage about their candidate. Often, when most of the campaign’s staffers had already gone home, Team Trump’s skeleton crew of media watchers were left working the midnight shift in the campaign’s so-called war room. War rooms are the rapid-response nerve centers of political campaigns, where staffers huddle around television sets, keeping tabs on any developments in the race or mentions of their candidates, ready to blast out a statement or a media pitch if a moment in the news cycle presents itself.
The news cycles of 2016 were consumed by Donald Trump to a degree unusual even for a major-party presidential candidate. That made his campaign’s war room a central component of the campaign apparatus. And it also meant long hours for those tasked with sifting through the streams of cable news coverage and drip drip of reporting on their candidate’s various flaws, foibles, and outrageous campaign trail pronouncements and actions.
The Donald himself rarely ever set foot in his own campaign offices. Staffers recalled fewer than half a dozen times throughout the campaign—including election night—that he was spotted roaming the fourteenth floor. So on this quiet, average day in Trump Tower in September 2016, the war room’s denizens were stunned when they turned their heads to see that “DJT,” as campaign staffers knew him, had quietly sauntered up next to them. Some of them had never actually met the candidate, and here he was, calmly surveying his political operation.
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McCain? I mean she supports him. Oh well . .
