Insults, Derision, Sports: Trump keeps us watching
I am watching a Trump event in Pennsylvania. A woman deep into the audience began shouting out something audible within the crowd but not audible to the TV audience. Trump lights up: a protester!
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| Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
He congratulates the police then derides and belittles the woman. "Oh, look at her, this woman shouting," Trump said in a mocking tone. The crowd booed her. Trump went on mocking her as she was escorted out. Trump returned to his theme of collusion in the plan of Kasich and Cruz to focus their campaigns on different states. It is collusion, Trump said with the colluders Cruz and Kasich colluding in their plan of open collusion.
The crowd was aroused then crowd broke into cheers when Trump finally used the words "Lyin' Ted". Trump was back! "Lyin' Ted" and then "Crooked Hillary," and the crowd roared its approval. Trump was all the way back!
Donald Trump is a masterful media manipulator. Cable news has enormous appetite for material--exciting, watchable material--and Trump provides it in the closest thing to a white Bronco on the freeway: insults and derision.
And today's news includes Trump weighing in on NFL football, "Leave Tom Brady alone. Leave. Tom. Brady. Alone!." Another crowd roars
Frequent guest post author Thad Guyer commented on my post early this morning in my pointless attempt to describe a matter of serious policy, here in the midst of a gladiatorial contest.
Thad Guyer comment:
I'm suspicious over why you threw that dry policy analysis at us. What are you up to, trying to distract us from a big picture view somewhere? That can't be it, unless its some inverse distraction gambit.
There is a piece in the NYT today asserting that the Mexican government now uses the "Trump demon" to deflect media heat from corruption and murder abetted by the government. When challenged to account for obstructing the investigation of the busloads of murdered students, the government says the reporter is tarnishing Mexico's brand just like Trump and then goes into a tirade about the Trump demon. I guess policy wonking would work, so the government official could launch into the policy details of state versus federal murder investigations, cost and manpower issues, even court jurisdiction.
The bottom line is you are right-- we don't want policy. We want not only the big picture, we want the biggest picture possible in any given news cycle. Beyonce "Lemonade" even stole the headlines of Trump from every major media outlet yesterday. The NYT suggests we all listen to it and learn about empowerment issues from the diva. Beyonce is so biggest picture she makes Trump look like a dry policy nerd. I guess policy is relative.
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