Trump on Faux now. Managing situation disturbingly well.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

[Joe the Revelator]

1. Details?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Talking with Greta about the protests in Chicago and sounding... kind of sane.

He's not talking trash about the protesters.

[Kilgore]

7. Seems to be making it about free speech

[flamingdem]

2. That's because he's a psychopath nt

[morningfog]

3. How so?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Emphasising protesters' freedom of speech rights. It's the Bizarro Trump.

[Kilgore]

5. Watching now, wow, he is very good.

Trump is a master with the media, we underestimate him at our own peril.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Exactly.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I have been saying this since oh July

but NOW media is starting to pay attention

[Kilgore]

13. Effectively trump has wrapped himself in free speech and

blames democrats and progressives for taking his right away.

Masterful, we underestimate him at our own peril.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Relevant links

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/12/10/donald-trump-is-a-fascist/

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/07/27/hyper-partisanship-trump-and-huckabee/

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/12/30/the-year-in-national-politics/

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/08/07/trump-why-is-he-resonating/

And bonus one

http://reportingsandiego.com/2016/02/29/the-chinese-curse-american-style/

We literally have been on this shit since almost when he launched.

[lame54]

32. he's no master...

if we had a press with brains and a backbone he would never have gotten this far

[Kilgore]

34. And if frogs had wings they would fly

[rockfordfile]

35. un-American right wing racists always does that

[JFKDem62]

6. Blaming everyone else, and not at all ruffled.

Cool and matter of fact.
Patting himself on the back for canceling the rally.

Unbelievable.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Exactly how should I be surprised that he is able to handle this well?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Given his bellicose behavior at his rallies, this was spookily detached.

I haven't heard this Trump before and it worries me, I guess, that he can reach down and pull this up from himself. It worries me that FAUX viewers (the ones not already on his bandwagon) will think positively of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Trump is a student of Adolph Hitler

Here... it is relevant, (So is Wallace)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027660330

[flamingdem]

16. Detached, cold, a psychopath

[Lizzie Poppet]

25. I think you've got him nailed. Moreover, he's morphing.

He's already spoken, just in the last day, about being able to dial it back. Now this press conference. Any assumption that this guy is nearly as much of a blustering nincompoop as he has often come across is foolish. He's by no means the financial genius he portrays himself to be, but he's a very accomplished showman and understands both working the audience in front of him and how public image is manage over time. He's very deliberately morphing, in my opinion.

[flamingdem]

28. Morphing yes! He's quite a monster and effective with the media

and we are all so impacted by the media, his skills are great from years of practice

[rockfordfile]

36. Fox News viewers are idiots

[eleny]

15. He should since he and his team probably planned it

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. I don't know about 'planned' but he sounded well prepared to exploit whatever happened.

[eleny]

20. he's been inciting people for months

imo, that was deliberate.

causing a crisis in order to ultimately control people has been a successful tactic for a very long time.

[LittleBlue]

22. He's exploiting it right now on CNN

Saying his free speech being violated and these were "rough dudes", then randomly doing his unemployment routine, jobs shipped overseas, black youth unemployed yada yada. It's turning into a campaign commercial.

Don Lemon being talked around. This is chilling but will anyone see it before it's too late?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. I'm sensing as I flip around he's playing it differently for the audiences on CNN, FAUX, and MSNBC.

If so, it's masterful.

[Kilgore]

26. Exactly

You nailed it

[DCBob]

19. There is no managing this.

Its a done deal and he will be blamed by most who have been paying attention. This could cost him the nomination.

[melman]

21. Don't count on it

More than likely this helps him.

[Renew Deal]

27. It fits the narrative for the people that support him.

It reinforces their world view.

[lame54]

33. they my get him the nomination but they are not enough to give him the whitehouse

[nationalize the fed]

24. That's a bad bet

EVERY TIME the Establishment says he's finished his popularity increases. Every time.

Trump appears on Alex Jones. "He's finished"-establishment
Result: Polls rise

Trump attacks the Pope. "He's finished"- establishment
Result: Polls rise

Trump says he could shoot someone in the street. "He's finished"
Guess what.

Watch tomorrows polls.

[Kilgore]

29. This just cemented his nomination

Yes, that was a prediction.

[lunasun]

30. The choir watching Fox

[UTUSN]

31. yip. Admirers

[IsItJustMe]

37. disturbingly well

Well, if that is your opinion. I don't think he is handling it well at all.