Trump seems to be extremely thin-skinned.

If you're the CEO of a corporation and somebody agitates you, you can say, "You're fired!"  But, the job of a president of a nation isn't the same as a CEO, unless of course, you're a dictator.

Goose wrote:

Trump is very thin-skinned.
He is also shrewd.
I think that the Hamilton nonstory was an attempt to keep the US vs Them, elites are bad, common man crap going.

IF that really is his thinking at this point, he is going to be a very bad President. 

 

Why the Hamilton Flap?

He's the "Dead Cat" theory.

(CNN)There is a story, popular among British politicians and attributed to the Australian strategist Lynton Crosby, known as "The Dead Cat." A CEO is confronted with poor statistics at a board meeting, and to divert attention from this unpleasant news, he suddenly pulls out a dead cat and throws it onto the middle of the table.

In the words of Boris Johnson, now the UK foreign secretary: "There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the table -- and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point... is that everyone will shout, 'Jeez, mate, there's a dead cat on the table!' In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat -- the thing you want them to talk about -- and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief."

Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump unveiled a particularly malodorous dead cat. In the past week, he had agreed to settle the Trump University lawsuits for $25 million, with a potential additional $1 million in penalties forthcoming. The suits alleged Trump defrauded people who enrolled in real estate seminars he started in 2005.

Meanwhile, his new DC hotel was marketing its services to diplomats keen to please the new President. As one diplomat told The Washington Post: "Why wouldn't I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new President, 'I love your new hotel!' Isn't it rude to come to his city and say, 'I am staying at your competitor?'" The link between presidency and personal profit was laid bare for all to see.

After all this, Trump's dead cat strike should have been predictable. On Friday night, Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended the Broadway musical "Hamilton;" by Saturday, Trump had taken to Twitter to denounce the musical's performers for being "very rude" to his future Vice President.

In fact, as video evidence shows, cast member Brandon Victor Dixon had read out a scrupulously polite statement of the inclusive values celebrated in the performance; it gave the impression of having been filtered through so many Broadway PR flacks as to be rendered entirely uncontentious.

Last edited by Goose (11/23/2016 4:46 am)