Trump can't keep us distracted forever with Carrier-like stunts.

[kpete]

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/805810911961317376

[hueymahl]

1. You have a lot more faith in the electorate than I do.

Reagan kept up the facade for eight years. And Reagan was not nearly the con man trump is.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, that's when a bigger than 911 type event will happen... the MSM will get behind Dputin like

... they did Bush and tell everyone else to STFU

[NightWatcher]

3. Have you seen the people who voted for him?

[enough]

4. This is a mighty optimistic point of view.

First, it suggests that people track over time, which apparently they don't.

And it suggests that when really bad things happen, people blame the previously-beloved leader. The 9/11 debacle made GWB into a national hero, against all evidence.

[TwilightZone]

5. We're not the target audience.

He doesn't need "us".

[bigtree]

6. no one is distracted

...his behavior reinforces his negatives and allows the public to believe the worst that he's accused of.

[0rganism]

7. no need to do that, really

all he has to do is pull a series of increasingly outrageous stunts that fixate the media on him 100% all the time while his underlings pick up the fallout $$$$ for him as the media is still drooling over yesterday's (or last week's) stupid scandal. ez-pz.

anytime he wants to get a rise out of the media? pull one of his long-promised federal crackdowns on immigrants or abortion services. they'll freak out for a couple days on that alone. he'll use it as a fundraising opportunity.

if this stops working at any point, just allow or stage a terrorist attack in some Democratic-voting urban area and have the media demand we give him supreme war powers for life. works like a charm.

this is not going to be a challenge for Trump & co. it's going to be very difficult for us, though.