Over the weekend, the media and the Trump Administration had
a major confrontation over the number of people who attended his inauguration.
There is a picture showing crowds far smaller at Trump’s inauguration than those
at Obama’s inauguration. Trump’s Press Secretary said it was the largest crowd
ever. The coverage of this feud went on all weekend and into Monday when
another advisor said that they were presenting ‘alternative facts.’
Now if it was me, I would have just said that there were
more people who watched the inauguration on TV and the internet than any other inauguration
in the past 34 years and that most of my supporters were too broke from the
Obama economy to pay the sky-high prices of hotels and flights to DC. I would
likely go on to say that by the time I was done, the job market would be doing
so well they would be able to not only afford to come to DC for my 2nd
inauguration, but they would be able to pay for their friends to come as well!
But then again, I didn’t beat 16 Republican challengers and Her Royalness….
But then it hit me, Mr. Trump is playing the Democrats own
game and winning. You see, over the weekend, no one was really talking anymore
about him being illegitimate, the massive ‘(liberal) Women’s March’, the
Federal Hiring Freeze, Trump limiting ObamaCare (including a likely decision to
no longer enforce the individual mandate), that we pulled out TPP, and are
pulling out of NAFTA. Nope, the whole conversation is about this controversy
over crowd size.
Oh, and Trump is working to make America great again.
This play is almost identical to the Hillary Campaign’s
response to their email hacking scandal and her private server issue. Instead
of an airing and discussion of all the Democrats racist comments, protecting
national security, rigging of the Democrat primary, and pay to play activities –
which should have ended anyone’s career – we were instead discussing how the
Russian’s rigged the election. Did anyone in the Government actually look at
any forensic evidence of the Russian hack? Nope! But we didn’t discuss that
either.
We just talked about the poor woman being beat up by the
Russians. Always a winning story in American politics.
Oh, and that private server holding all kinds of state
secrets? That was because she was busy and was just doing what was easiest and convenient.
No talk of the obvious violations of numerous federal laws or what other pay to
play schemes were in those 30,000+ deleted emails (hey, if they would talk
about it on official party email accounts, why not a secret email account?).
Instead of talking about all those other issues, the
conversation was just about how it came to be that we all learned about these
emails.
Where Trump is really winning here is that unlike the
Democrats, he is not trying to cover a scandal (who really cares how many
people came to an inauguration and why does it even matter?), but instead he is
providing himself cover from the liberal media while he institutes all sorts of
things that would normally be wall to wall coverage and outrage!
Remember 6 months ago, when TPP was the only thing holding
the Chinese back? Eh, no big deal anymore.
Or when ObamaCare was almost the third rail of politics, and
everyone was beginning to think that it was set in stone? Yeah, that is on a
death spiral now.
What about the ‘(liberal) Women’s March’? Shouldn’t that
have been major news for days if not the week? That march feeds everything the
mainstream media loves! But no, they are more concerned about catching Mr.
Trump in a ‘lie.’
Sorry you 3 million ladies, you just got trumped by a small
crowd story, and no one noticed!
