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Strategic Ambiguity (Master Persuasion Series)

If you have been watching the news lately you know that Donald Trump disavowed the endorsement of racist David Duke. Unless you are watching CNN, in which case, their version of the news is that he didn’t do enough disavowing that one time.

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Trump’s VP Options (Master Persuader Filter)

Just for fun, let’s say Trump has five options for VP. 

  • John Kasich
  • Some other white male governor
  • Superstar woman or minority governor
  • Mark Cuban
  • Chris Christie

I’ll break down the choices for you and run them through the Master Persuader filter for a prediction.

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Disavowing Trump

I disavow Trump. Because of this and a few other things.

His skills are still impressive.

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The Choke Artist Versus the Watch Salesman (Trump Persuasion Series)

Let’s compare Trump’s and Rubio’s Linguistic Kill Shots from the Republican debate last night.

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How to Spot a Narcissist (Trump Persuasion Series)

Donald Trump is the most famous narcissist in the world. That fact probably seems obvious to you, given Trump’s continuous self-promotion. Mental health experts agree with your assessment. Trump hits most of the checkboxes for the diagnosis.

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My CNN Interview about Trump

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Solving for Scary (Trump Persuasion Series)

Trump looks like a good bet to win the Republican nomination. And let’s say his opponent in the general election is either Clinton or Sanders. That gives us an interesting situation in which the three candidates in the best position to become president have fatal flaws.

Trump is too scary 

Clinton is too untrustworthy 

Sanders is too non-religious

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The Trump Master Persuader Index and Reading List

Readers of this blog have been asking me to compile my Trump posts in a convenient index so you can direct others to it. And so I have. I’ll try to keep this updated as I go.

The fun of it is seeing how early I predicted Trump’s rise (8/13/15).

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Scalia and the Pillow

As you know, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia recently died. Here’s what we know.

1. He seemed healthy(ish) that day.

2. He was discovered with a pillow over his head.

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