Thursday, September 15, 2016 5:13:26 AM
How Trump Did It
It looks improvisational, but he planned this run for years, making a pipe dream look like a prophecy.
By Eli Stokols and Ben Schreckinger
February 01, 2016
AP Photo
What they heard as they ate deli sandwiches around Donald Trump’s hulking wooden conference table sounded like the businessman’s typical bravado. These 25 New York political operatives had come to ask him to run for governor. But Trump had another plan—a very specific plan—to run for president.
“You guys are going to be very helpful when I do the big thing,” he said, according to people who were in the room that day.
To the GOP county chairs and assemblymen there in Trump Tower’s glass-enclosed conference room overlooking Fifth Avenue and Central Park, Trump’s aspirations seemed far-fetched and the plan itself sounded downright implausible.
“He said, ‘I’m going to walk away with it and win it outright,’” a long-time New York political consultant recalled. “Trump told us, ‘I’m going to get in and all the polls are going to go crazy. I’m going to suck all the oxygen out of the room. I know how to work the media in a way that they will never take the lights off of me.’”
This gathering of New York’s political class was not held on the eve of Trump’s announcement. It was much earlier than that – 25 months ago, in the weeks before Christmas of 2013, a period well before most Americans and even many politicians were thinking about the 2016 presidential contest. Well before Trump would come to utterly dominate the GOP race from the very moment he declared himself a candidate.
In this meeting, Trump showed his cards, laying out the route he would take to tonight’s Iowa caucuses.
Notoriously frugal, Trump insisted he wouldn’t need to spend much money on paid advertising, drawing disbelief from the professionals gathered around his table.
“You can’t run for president on earned media,” one attendee recalled telling Trump.
The billionaire looked up, and paused for a long moment. “I think you’re wrong,” Trump said.
there's more .. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/how-donald-trump-did-it-213581
.. it's old, and nothing much new, just while watching 'away' somewhere all of a sudden wondered how he came to run for
president now, after the almosts so many years ago .. still wondering who the people were who encouraged him to run ..
Cuban says Trump is an expert at "headline porn"...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125076457
.. obviously Trump's porn was part of his free-loader plan from the beginning, and as we've seen the media
have accommodated him all the way .. his honeymoon with them isn't cooling yet, yet just maybe some soon ..
It looks improvisational, but he planned this run for years, making a pipe dream look like a prophecy.
By Eli Stokols and Ben Schreckinger
February 01, 2016
AP Photo
What they heard as they ate deli sandwiches around Donald Trump’s hulking wooden conference table sounded like the businessman’s typical bravado. These 25 New York political operatives had come to ask him to run for governor. But Trump had another plan—a very specific plan—to run for president.
“You guys are going to be very helpful when I do the big thing,” he said, according to people who were in the room that day.
To the GOP county chairs and assemblymen there in Trump Tower’s glass-enclosed conference room overlooking Fifth Avenue and Central Park, Trump’s aspirations seemed far-fetched and the plan itself sounded downright implausible.
“He said, ‘I’m going to walk away with it and win it outright,’” a long-time New York political consultant recalled. “Trump told us, ‘I’m going to get in and all the polls are going to go crazy. I’m going to suck all the oxygen out of the room. I know how to work the media in a way that they will never take the lights off of me.’”
This gathering of New York’s political class was not held on the eve of Trump’s announcement. It was much earlier than that – 25 months ago, in the weeks before Christmas of 2013, a period well before most Americans and even many politicians were thinking about the 2016 presidential contest. Well before Trump would come to utterly dominate the GOP race from the very moment he declared himself a candidate.
In this meeting, Trump showed his cards, laying out the route he would take to tonight’s Iowa caucuses.
Notoriously frugal, Trump insisted he wouldn’t need to spend much money on paid advertising, drawing disbelief from the professionals gathered around his table.
“You can’t run for president on earned media,” one attendee recalled telling Trump.
The billionaire looked up, and paused for a long moment. “I think you’re wrong,” Trump said.
there's more .. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/how-donald-trump-did-it-213581
.. it's old, and nothing much new, just while watching 'away' somewhere all of a sudden wondered how he came to run for
president now, after the almosts so many years ago .. still wondering who the people were who encouraged him to run ..
Cuban says Trump is an expert at "headline porn"...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125076457
.. obviously Trump's porn was part of his free-loader plan from the beginning, and as we've seen the media
have accommodated him all the way .. his honeymoon with them isn't cooling yet, yet just maybe some soon ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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