Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

[babylonsister]

He really is a coddled, 70-year old baby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

By MAGGIE HABERMAN, ASHLEY PARKER, JEREMY W. PETERS and MICHAEL BARBARONOV. 6, 2016


Donald J. Trump is not sleeping much these days.

Aboard his gold-plated jumbo jet, the Republican nominee does not like to rest or be alone with his thoughts, insisting that aides stay up and keep talking to him. He prefers the soothing, whispery voice of his son-in-law.

He requires constant assurance that his candidacy is on track. “Look at that crowd!” he exclaimed a few days ago as he flew across Florida, turning to his young press secretary as a TV tuned to Fox News showed images of what he claimed were thousands of people waiting for him on the ground below.

And he is struggling to suppress his bottomless need for attention. As he stood next to the breakfast buffet at his golf club in Doral, Fla., eyeing a tray of pork sausages, he sought to convey restraint when approached by a reporter for The New York Times.

“I’m on message,” Mr. Trump asserted, with effort. “I’m not playing around. In fact, I’m a little nervous standing here talking to you even for just a minute.”

But moments later, his resolve had collapsed. He allowed the same reporter onto his plane for a flight from Miami to Jacksonville, Fla.

In the final days of the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a jarring split screen: the choreographed show of calm and confidence orchestrated by his staff, and the neediness and vulnerability of a once-boastful candidate now uncertain of victory.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. kick for later

[Hortensis]

2. We were right. They took away his Twitter account,

and we could see that he started following instructions--in public--after Comey gave him a new chance to win.

On the surface, there is the semblance of stability that is robbing Hillary Clinton of her most potent weapon: Mr. Trump’s self-sabotaging eruptions, which have repeatedly undermined his candidacy. Underneath that veneer, turbulence still reigns, making it difficult for him to overcome all of the obstacles blocking his path to the White House.

The contrasts pervade his campaign. Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a “super PAC” with vengeance as its core mission.

[Hekate]

3. The Madness of King Donald is chronicled in that article in horrifying detail. BTW...

Kellyanne, give the boy back his cellphone so he can Tweet again.