I opened up the
CNN page today, and it wasn’t what I saw, it was what I did not see. For the
first time and I could not tell you in how long, Donald Trump did not dominate
the page. In fact, I was greeted with the murder story. That was the headline
not Donald Trump.
Huh?
Since the
Wisconsin primary pretty much Donald Trump has not been on the front pages. We’ve
heard about him. Speculation. But after his weird and tantrum like concession tweet
following a Wisconsin loss, Donald Trump has disappeared.
Now, he’s out
there. And he’s in New York. That makes zero sense. He pretty much has New York
locked up and in a bag. So why would he leave the trail, cancel California and
Colorado, and just go home? In fact, news reports that his first rally in his
home state was lackluster. Not the crowds, but Donald himself.
Gone are the
ranting tweets at 2 AM, gone are the retweets. It’s almost as if someone said
to him, “Stop. You really want this?
Just stop. “
There’s
speculation that he’s regrouping. Amongst people I know, even Donald supporters,
there is concern he’s going to drop out. There’s talk of that. I don’t buy it.
He has gotten
himself a new, as he calls it, convention manager. A veteran on campaigns. It
could be that this veteran is whispering in Donald’s ear.
Let's face it, the
Donald has had some missteps recently. A lot of them. Including the Corey
Lewandowski deal. No matter how much
Donald wants to stand beside him it’s not looking good. He boasted that he
would not fire Cory, he didn’t, he just hired somebody to kind of take over and
push Corey to the background.
Again I don’t
think it’s regrouping, or rethinking. To me, it’s business.
It is odd for me
to write a pro Trump blog. But in actuality it’s not pro Trump it’s reality
check to all those who are second-guessing. To the never Trump people that are
hoping he really is dropping out.
Reality is Donald
Trump is a businessman. He runs his businesses. He is top-of-the-line. And then
he goes on this campaign trail. All well and fine, he can run his businesses
from the trail, but is not going to do it the way he did before. Increasingly
with the schedules, rallies, inundated news coverage. Trump cannot do his
business the way he did it before. He entrusts others, and anyone that has ran
their own business knows, there’s only so much trust you can give someone
whether they are related to or not.
No one will run
your own business the way you will.
Donald is finding
that out.
Anyone that is
stepping back or taking time off or lax
on their work of their own business, knows it tallies up. There’s stuff that
people don’t do or don’t do correctly.
Things begin to
slip, revenues drop, it gets to a crisis and if you don’t do it yourself, you
won’t have it when you’re done with whatever is distracting you.
Trump has
entrusted his children. These are the same children whose father is running for
president, and didn’t register to vote. If they couldn’t do something so simple
as registering to vote for their father, how are they running his business. One
of them just had a baby. It’s not getting done.
So Trump, seeing
his businesses fail, not that they are, but they need his attention. Decided
this was the best time ever. He hit a sacrifice fly with Colorado, and went
home. Trump could actually retreat and not even step out his front door for the
next couple weeks. He has New York wrapped up. Barring some unforeseen
circumstances, where he blunders big time, or commits some heinous crime, he’s
going to win New York. That is where Trump is. Fixing his business. We will not
hear much from Trump until after the New York primary. A rally here and there,
but nothing non stop like before. And then he will go back on the trail full
force.
My question is,
people like winners, will it be a little too late,. Will Trump step back too
much that this will be detrimental to
him. If Trump emerges after New York he will not emerge the same, he is going
to have a new manager, and he will present a different persona. Quite, less
ranting tweets, nothing over the top. Will that last, we don’t know. A new presidential
Trump will, and can absorb into the masses, with nothing to make him stand out. Truth be
told his brash nature and antics put him
in the notable lane. Without them is he Trump? Under the new improved circumstances,
would Trump be able to ride this train at the same speed he has done before.
I doubt it. We
will find out.
This is been the
best election season ever.
