Cross Town Thoughts
Tear up past tactics. Trump and Sanders are doing it their way.
Donald is ditching the digital strategies. Stats out. Rallies in. Big venues with throngs of thousands. No SuperPacs. Going with what is working. All out Clinton attacks. More fun. Bernie not keeping with the old playbook either. Crowds are coming to feel the Bern. New voters to both. Many say they’ll vote for the other over Hillary any day.
What would Sinatra say?
Media talking heads. Columnist elites. Establishment politicos. Insular class. Divorced from the people for decades. The invisible angry masses have spoken. They are mad as hell and won’t take it anymore. Trump is a divining rod who satisfies his audience’s thirst for attention and respect. Mirrors the Sanders disaffected youth. Both get crowds. But. El Trumpo did thumpo a throng of candidates. Will he dumpo Hillary, too? Hmmm.
White House Correspondents Dinner. As usual. Obama bests the comedian. His timing and delivery flawless. Boehner-Barack video the highlight. Wilmore embarrassed. Where were Mika & Joe? Will Trump’s past pique turn into the quintessential payback’s a bitch moment?
Over at Live! The side show rages. Will Kelly poke Michael on his new girlfriend’s rap sheet? Gonna be a shady couple of weeks. Ironically. They are both Emmy-award winning “actors” it seems. Won. Again. Last night. Best talk show hosts 2016. Ha!
Game Of Thrones. As Arya hones her swashbuckling instincts. Tyrion unleashes his dragon-whisperer skills. Anachronisms aside. All roads lead to Jon Snow.
Hillary’s new campaign ad. Send money and literally get a pink (seriously) plastic card that says Woman Card. Broken record alert! Why don’t they get how insulting this is to treat women as a monolithic group who all think the same way? She indicts Donald for playing the “Trump Card”. Which means anti-women. Despite the fact that he is an equal opportunity offender.
Yes. He does accuse Hillary of only having that one card. Game on. Cut the cards and deal.
Bon weekend.
Trump’s Foreign Policy Analysis. We don’t get no respect. Anywhere. By anyone around the world. His vision is an expansion of his personal view of fairness and respect. Leaders must greet Air Force One at the airport. The President has to know the outcome of a deal before he embarks on a trip to a foreign country to negotiate. Be prepared to walk away from the table. If allies don’t pay for our protection, we will pull out our troops and close our military bases. In Germany. Korea. Japan. Wherever.
Have to say. Trump sounded more like Rodney Dangerfield meets Ronald Reagan. The world has to be nice to us financially thereby proving respect. Different.
There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. Who called everyone and everything else crooked. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. And spent it sparingly. Then cried when the crooked people bested him at his own game.
Trump has deemed the Republican Party’s nominating rules rigged and crooked. He has dubbed his Democratic rival Crooked Hillary. It’s a good neutral non-gender specific adjective which everyone can relate to. And keeps the media out of his own crooked house.
-Apologies to Mother Goose.
Chris Matthews conducted the best interview with El Trumpo. Rapid-fire. Two street fighters sparring tête-à-tête. Chris the only one who’s gotten the best of The Donald. Has El Trumpo finally met his Waterloo? Stumped and trumped too often of late. Winging it. Swinging and missing it. Will he find a way to extricate himself from humiliating defeat. We’ll see.
Does Trump really want to be President? Never his intent.
Trick of the eye. Chicanery. Snake oil anyone? His followers rally. Media and Republicans dally. Hillary is the only one who can reveal this Trump l’œil. Will she?
House of Cards 4. Frank Underwood. Makes Trump look like a saint. Or. Maybe not. Nancy Reagan could have given Claire a run for her money. Will fiction become fact?
Kardashians move over. It’s now The Trumps. Donald doing dick jokes at the debate. What do we expect with Cialis and Viagra commercials 24/7. We’re numbing down. Little Marco a perfect foil. Protesters at rallies a key part of the act. PGA playing at his Doral.
Current wife Melania on every channel prime time. Leggy beauty with gilted nouveau riche rooms in the background. Ex-wife Marla will be Dancing With the Stars. Daughter Ivanka ready to pop the next Trumpster grandbaby as she launches a new line of shoes. Son Eric tries to push Chris the Sidekick out of frame. It’s The Celebrity President Reality Show.
Bon weekend.
Megyn Kelly will get another shot at Trump. His reaction to her barbs got him in trouble. Misogynist. So. He called Christie fat. Rubio sweaty and short. Jebra low energy. Fiorina’s face. Hillary’s voice. All targets. Equal opportunity insulter. That’s who he is. Is that okay? No. But, we know what we are getting. Now Rubio and Romney have sunk to his level. Name-calling. Schoolyard banter. A new standard for political discourse?
On The Donald’s Blue Monster at Doral, youngsters will also play today. McIlroy. Spieth. Day. Oy. Vey.
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