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Recent days have featured a familiar sight: a coterie of Trump allies taking to broadcast outlets such as Fox News, seemingly to send a message to Trump — in the apparent belief that this is how you get through to the cable-news-junkie former president. They’ve practically begged him to change it up. They’ve sought to push him away from talk of crowd sizes and personal attacks on Harris, and toward policy.
And by doing so they almost insure that’s what the news stories will be about the next day.
Trump could give a 90 minute rally speech (he often does) and he will meander through 87 topics, some of which are relevant, but he can’t help himself talking about crowd sizes and personal attacks, and because his allies are begging him not to, reporters will say “And he talked *again* about crowd sizes and attacked Harris”. A few will add “but he didn’t mention any policy proposals”.
It’s quite a circular firing squad he’s unleashed. He has no discipline, or as he said to donors at a recent meeting “I am who I am”.
