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August 17, 2015

For starters, Trump literally wrote the book on negotiating, called The Art of the Deal.

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When Trump says he is worth $10 billion this causes his critics to say he is worth far less (but still billions) he is making all of us “think past the sale.”
The sale he wants to make is “Remember that Donald Trump is a successful business person managing a vast empire mostly of his own making.” The exact amount of his wealth is irrelevant. When a car salesperson trained in persuasion asks if you prefer the red Honda Civic or the Blue one, that is a trick called making you “think past the sale” and the idea is to make you engage on the question of color as if you have already decided to buy the car. That is Persuasion 101 and I have seen no one in the media point it out when Trump does it. Clown Genius | Scott Adams Blog

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 17, 2015 10:59 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Trump does 'Jedi-Mind Tricks', eh?

Good points from Scott Adams.

Posted by: John Condon [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2015 11:38 AM

Not so. Tony Schwartz wrote the book. The Donald is an illiterate buffoon who couldn't write a thank you note for a kid's birthday party.

Posted by: Fat Man [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2015 12:18 PM

"Now, for perhaps the second or third time in history, one of these Erickson-trained wizards is running for President of the United States. You can expect that candidate to win. His name is Donald Trump.

"Allow me to connect the dots for you.

Donald Trump is buddies with the most powerful wizard alive, Tony Robbins. Robbins is the biggest motivational speaker, life coach, and self-help guru in the world. Here’s a video showing Trump and Robbins selling a National Achievers Congress event they partnered on. First, listen to Trump’s style (full of happy-sounding words but zero content) and compare it to Robbins who follows on the video and is also full of happy words with zero content. See the similarity?"

Wizard Wars | Scott Adams Blog"

Posted by: Van der Leun [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2015 2:15 PM

He's as good as anybody else that's been in the WH over the past 20-30 years, maybe better.

And if he's not, so what?

What, you're scared he'll wreck the country?
silly waif, that's already been done, do try to keep up.....

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 17, 2015 7:03 PM

Repeat several times:

We are winners, we want winners leading us;

We want winners;

We want winners.

Not "... a half breed faggot of dubious provenance on the throne and toadying grifters running the place. You gotta forgive me, I'm not well ... sometimes I think I've seen too much. I wish Putin had grown up in Boise. – Remus

Like ghost says, what do we have to lose?

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 18, 2015 5:44 AM

Most interesting analysis of the Trump phenomenon I've seen.

Posted by: chuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 18, 2015 8:04 AM

@Chas, we want winners but we got whiners instead.

First thing Trump should do is fire everybody. Every last one. If they drew a gov't check yesterday they are gone today, final.

Then hire accomplished businessmen UNDER CONTRACT to do as he delegates, and he'll delegate broadly.

Close 500 gov't bureaus the very first day and all of the employees are fired with NO bennies.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 18, 2015 10:42 AM

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