Tag: El Trumpo

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Disruptors Rule

Confluence of the death of a Supreme who upheld Citizens United. Big Donor Bucks drove the political landscape. Then. There came Trump. Shattered the status quo. Major goal was to self-fund and debunk traditional nomination game. Took on the establishment. Even if he doesn’t go all the way. He has succeeded in disrupting. Lots of lobbyists scratching their heads.

And Bernie. He has brought Hillary to the far left. Turned out youth in droves. Small donations vs. the Fat Cats. Again. Disrupting. Well done.

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Greatest Show on Earth?!

This year’s 3-ring Presidential race is out of control. Orange-haired barker ducks as Carnival Cruz hurls swords his way. Rube to the O wears the organ-grinder outfit well. The flying Bushes trapeze overhead, hoping for a wide net. Hillary sharpens her whip for the animal act. Bernie the Clown has stolen the show.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz weighed in. He doesn’t like the tangled acrobatics under the Big Top. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann shine the light on behind the scenes antics in their fantastic Showtime series The Circus.

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Jokers Wild

House of Cards script could not compete with last night’s political theatrics. The Trump Jet rolls onto the Des Moines tarmac with media frenzy and flashing bulbs. Long lines queue up around a small auditorium to await his arrival. Adele’s hits blaring through the hall. Across town, Cruz and Rubio snark at each other and Chris Wallace. Megyn Kelly holds court with a montage of each frontrunner’s flip flopping clips. A brutal hit job on both. Dulce Candy affords Jeb sweet revenge. But, too little too late?

Donald hugs it out with Huckabee and Santorum who won Iowa in past caucuses. Should he have gone to the debate? Of course not. It was his Frank Underwood (F.U.) moment. Could this get anymore fun? Bon weekend.

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Trump Change

Hillary gave uniquely genuine performance at the Town Hall. Her confidence and uncharacteristic charisma boosted by the President’s kind words. Bernie brought some heat. They both showed passion in a rather lackluster format. Obama will meet with Sanders at the White House to balance the scales.

The story of the day is Trump’s petulant refusal to join the Thursday debate on FOX. Megyn Kelly as host a jab, then Roger Ailes poked the beast. Amped up the snark to which Donald said screw you. His rules. What will he do?

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Lucid Lunacy

He’s done it. El Trumpo made himself the sane choice of the old Republican guard. He has replaced their view of him as the sideshow huckster with a scarier Carnival Cruz. The fringe right are out to dump the Trump which just confirms him as the more mainstream choice. If Mike Bloomberg doesn’t join the fray, at the end of the day it’ll be Donald J. Despite the fact that Sarah Palin is now in play. Predict cold open on SNL this weekend will feature Darrell Hammond and Tina Fey. Oy vey. Blame John McCain!

Full moon and just south a blizzard blows. Carolina v. Pats in the SuperBowl. Safe weekend.

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Saggy Awards

SAGs. Golden Globes. Oscars. ‘Tis the Season for Depressing Gay Abused Stories Glorified. Children in Pain. No wonder Star Wars is so anticipated. El Trumpo? No. Trumbo. Haven’t watched Fargo, lots of noms. Winter binge idea. Ray only one? The Affair, too. These awards are lame. The Big Short is Carol’s game.

MadMen!? Seriously.

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Trumpolini

Not really. Trump is not an ideologue who craves power. He is rather a pragmatic demagogue. His new call to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. is a dangerous extreme and crosses the line. That’s his negotiating strategy. Start with the most outrageous to shape the debate. Congress is already voting to ban immigrants from certain countries. His end game is to make America tougher.

Simplistic brazen narcissism? Yes. Will he win? Maybe. Unless rest of the Repubs can rally around one candidate. Not sure who that would be.

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Dilbert Trump

Dilbert creator Scott Adams calls Trump a linguistic wizard. He predicts that The Donald’s brilliant power of persuasion will win him the presidency. Tactics that are seemingly clownish are actually calculated. Tagging each of his foes with caricature traits, just accurate enough so they stick. Jeb low energy, Carly robotic, etc. Adams himself is a hypnotist. And. Writes a great comic strip.

Fargo Season 2 with Ted Danson. In Golf. Presidents Cup. Who cares. Celebrating Genoa’s favorite son. Bon weekend.

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Petulant Adolescent Presidents

Great NY Times Magazine piece on El Trumpo. Mark Leibovich accompanied Donald on his private jet to various campaign venues. He confirms that between gigs Donald watches himself on every channel and tweets after dark like a frenzied teen. Nevertheless, he entertains crowds and disrupts old political ways.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Vlad swaggers through his gold-gilded doors with similar narcissism and bombast. He will fight ISIS in Syria. So, let him. As Donald says, why not? Do we want to send our kids there to fight? Let Putin do it.

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World Collides

As Papa Francisco touches down on U.S. soil for the first time, he’ll almost cross paths with China’s Xi Jinping at the White House and on the Upper East Side. Pope Francis via Cuba. Chairman Xi flying in from Seattle. Old cultures colliding with high tech century. Russia helping us fight ISIS with Syria’s Assad and Iran. Strange alliances. Maybe for the better. New World Order.

Meanwhile, is El Trumpo tapping General Petraeus for his foreign policy team? And as Joe Nocera concludes in today’s New York Times, don’t we all wish Mike Bloomberg had run? I still do. June 4 SideTrek.