So basically Trump has to be treated like an 11-year-old girl?

[kpete]

from WAPO:

On a recent afternoon, spooning chilled pea soup at a French restaurant near Times Square, Conway, 49, hints how she’ll tackle this challenge. You can’t just tell Trump what to do, she said. You have to give him options.

She illustrates the point with a story about her 11-year-old daughter.

When Claudia emerged from her room on Memorial Day sporting turquoise, Conway asked her to change into blue. “She goes, ‘Turquoise is blue.’ And it is. But it wasn’t a shade available to Betsy Ross when she stayed up through the night sewing the damn flag.”

Conway follows the same approach with the Republican presidential nominee. Never command. That could insult him. Always make suggestions, backed with information in 10-second sound bites:

Betsy Ross lacked turquoise. Female voters want compassion.

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/08/17/more-on-trumps-new-brain-trust/#comments

[yellowcanine]

1. She made her daughter change her dress because it wasn't a patriotic blue?

Huh. I normally do not critique other people's parenting skills but Ms. Conway apparently doesn't know about the old parenting adage, "Choose your battles."

[Maru Kitteh]

4. she laid out four Betsy Ross blue choices on her bed

When Claudia emerged from her room on Memorial Day sporting turquoise, Conway asked her to change into blue. “She goes, ‘Turquoise is blue.’ And it is. But it wasn’t a shade available to Betsy Ross when she stayed up through the night sewing the damn flag.”

She chose not to argue with the preteen, which would have delayed their morning. Instead she laid out four Betsy Ross blue choices on her bed. “Minutes later,” she says, “she came out in one of those shades.”

Yeah, that's not creepy either

[yellowcanine]

8. Major control issues. Obviously she lives vicariously through her daughter.

Nothing that 20 years of therapy won't straighten out for her daughter.

[Avalux]

2. Trump is a dumbass. He can't read and he doesn't understand complexity.

He has money thanks to Daddy, and has paid people to take care of everything for him. They coddle him because they want some of his money.

That's the game.

[gratuitous]

3. Trump has the nice, even temperament of a drill sergeant whose shoes are too tight

Better treat him like Anthony Fremont, or you'll find yourself in the cornfield, and nobody comes back from there. Yeah, this is the sort of stable individual who should have his hands on the nuclear codes. Elton and Bernie need to re-purpose Madman Across the Water for a new generation.

[struggle4progress]

5. "We all know that if you let a girl wear turquoise, things will only go downhill from there"

[Raven]

6. Huuuge insult to 11 year old girls.

They have a lot more maturity than the Donald.

[Paladin]

7. My thoughts exactly. Thank you. (nt)