When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2018
Dog whistle!
The argument here takes the usual defeatist line that you can't change the mind of Trump supporters, and unless you do that, he wins in 2020. Ignore that, though, and focus on the reasoning past the innumeracy (Trump is consistently tracking at 52-52% disapproval, 10 points above (below?) his consistent approval rating at 41-42%. He doesn't have enough supporters to win with those numbers):
But even if Manigault Newman and her tapes say exactly what the president’s opponents want to hear—that he’s a racist, that he’s a bumbling idiot, that he has no control over his own White House—her “insider’s account” will never be as satisfying as the anti-Trump resistance might hope. The first problem is the source. Manigault Newman, like the president, is an opportunist built for and by reality television. Her willingness to do anything for notoriety, including but not limited to playing the villain on a corny game show and signing up for a role in a racist presidential administration, makes her an unreliable narrator.I agree Trump is clearly a racist. But the "n-word" is a talisman. None of us dare speak it or write it. To find a tape with Trump using it? Well, it won't increase his chances of re-election; nor will it spur the "red wave" he thinks is coming in November. If anything, it would add a few more votes in the Democratic party columns. Indeed, the word is so toxic, and there's so much of a chance it's out there (the tape), even his Press Secretary won't deny it:
The second problem is content. An N-word recording could serve as shorthand for Trump’s racism for those unwilling or unable to see the racism in his policies. And it would probably spur some Republican leaders to cut ties with Trump, at least temporarily, as they did when the Access Hollywood tape came out in October 2016. But there is reason to believe that an N-word tape wouldn’t torpedo Trump’s presidency, or even keep him from winning a second term. By this point, we shouldn’t need to hear Trump saying the N-word to become convinced that he considers black people second-class citizens. At the same time, no one who has supported him through his Obama birther fabrication, his insistence that the Central Park Five are guilty, and his defense of white supremacists as “very fine people” will turn against him because he used a racial slur.
“Can you stand at the podium and guarantee the American people they will never hear Donald Trump utter the n-word on a recording in any context?” MSNBC’s Kristin Welker asked.
“I can’t guarantee anything, but I can tell you that the President addressed this question directly,” Sanders said. “I can tell you that I’ve never heard it.”
Yeah, that's not the resounding tribute she thinks it is. If there's a tape of me using that word, it's about 50 years old now. Probably by age 13 I'd abandoned it altogether (I cannot guarantee I never used it, I can only plead the stupidity of youth). Trump was allegedly using it in his 60's. I can guarantee there's no tape of me using that word in my '60's. And then there was Trump's other assault on black women:
The president’s use of the word “dog” to describe the only senior African-American staffer to serve in his administration struck many as out of line, including Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, who asked Conway about the tweet on Tuesday. “That dog,” he said, repeating the president’s words. “I know he’s not happy about this, but is that language necessary?”This is working out real good for him. No doubt his approval ratings will go up any day now. And if they don't, it could be because even his own staff doesn't trust him:
Unable to defend Trump’s commentary, Conway would only say that she’s “disappointed” in Manigault-Newman and thinks her “best play would have to take credit for a lot of the great things Donald Trump has done for this country, including for African Americans.”
When Hemmer asked again specifically about Trump’s use of the word “dog” and suggested Trump doesn’t want to “sell more book for her along the way,” Conway simply smiled tightly and stayed silent.
“It’s called C.Y.A.,” said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump Organization employee who has himself been publicly critical of Trump, and who has come under attack from the president on Twitter as a result. Nunberg says he was asked about recordings different people in the Trump Organization and campaign made when he was called to testify in front of special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury in the spring. “Cover Your Ass. That’s why people are recording.” It’s an acronym that rings especially true when it comes to the famously mercurial boss. “People are taping him first, because he always talked about taping people himself,” one person in his orbit told me on Monday. “And second, it’s because of his erratic behavior and his inability to tell the truth. He changes his mind after the fact. He commits to doing something, only to have him question you after you do it,” this person said.That's gotta be a real special place to work, the West Wing; just like on the TeeVee!
Oh, and Omarosa's not through, either:
1. Trump Knew About Clinton’s Emails Before Wikileaks Released Them
2. Trump Has Derogatory Nicknames for Everyone
3. Trump Only Kept Hope Hicks on Staff for Her Looks
Omarosa writes in her book that Trump “would rather have a pretty woman with no experience around than a qualified, less attractive woman.”
“You’re talking about Hope Hicks there?” Tur asked.
“Yes, I’m talking about Hope Hicks,” Omarosa responded.
“It is interesting that people haven’t really examined the fact that he would rather have someone who has absolutely no political experience and no knowledge of politics at all, because she is pretty,” Omarosa continued. “And I am someone who served in two tours of duty, this is my second time in the White House, and he calls me a dog.
4. John Kelly Is Responsible for Horrific Puerto Rico Response
I left in the text under no. 3 because honestly, Omarosa is as clueless as Trump. What were her qualifications again....?
The staff is not rallying around the boss like they need him to. Huckabee Sanders should have said there can't be a tape because Trump doesn't talk like that. Best she could do was say she'd never heard him talk like that. Conway just goes silent, because whaddayagonnado, your boss just called a black woman a bitch. And everybody's taping everybody because they know what we know: Trump cannot be trusted. And Trump's campaign is just throwing gasoline on the fire by suing Omarosa for not keeping her mouth shut.
Yeah, Trump's got 2020 in the bag......
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