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Trump TV Behind Donald’s
Fake Candidacy?

Late last week, filmmaker and activist Michael Moore went public with his theory that Donald Trump doesn’t want to be President of the United States and is actively looking for a way out. Now, more information has surfaced that not only does Trump not want to be president, but he has completely gamed the GOP in helping him launch his latest money-making/self-promoting venture: Trump TV.

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One look at the primary months and you’ll see that Donald Trump has found running for president to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The man absolutely loves the big crowds, the sound of his own voice, being on TV news non-stop, and on the front page of every newspaper, every single day. However, the thought of actually being president is incredibly boring to him and could never hold his attention (which is why he announced he wants his VP to do the actual work, while he serves as somewhat of a ceremonial “King”). Trump only wants the continued adulation, the huge crowds waiting in the hot sun to hang on his every word, as well as the late night Twitter feuds where he can say anything about anybody.

Being POTUS won’t provide the continued fun — but being CEO of Trump TV will.

In the article entitled “Trump Is Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy,” political mathematician Nate Silver noted that if Trump really wanted to win, or least make the election as close as possible, he’d be campaigning hard to the center. Instead, he’s running hard to the right.  Or in other words, he’s not looking to broaden his base, but is continuing to sing to the choir.

According to Silver, the major shakeup inside the Trump campaign that saw the addition of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon and GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway accomplished the exact opposite of a “pivot” toward general election voters.  For anyone who follows polls, this would appear to be a fundamentally strategic error. Trump is running worse than Mitt Romney among almost every demographic group there is, with undereducated white men being the only exception. However, there aren’t enough of those men to form a national majority that could come at all close to propelling him to the Oval Office.

So, what if Trump’s goal as the Republican nominee was not to actually become president, but to continue appearing on non-stop TV while making a lot of money doing it?  What if Trump’s end game was not to be the star of a show on someone else’s network, but to own a network of his own — or at least a minority stake in one — where he could emblazon his name all over it while saying and doing whatever he pleases?

Jeet Heer of The New Republic believes that Trump’s naming of “media firebrand” Steve Bannon to run the remainder of his campaign (when Bannon has no prior experience in running a political campaign before), plays directly into the narrative of a potential Trump TV.

“But if the Trump campaign is an epic disaster, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what he’s doing.” Heer wrote. “In fact, by cementing ties with Breitbart and seeking advice from disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes, Trump has sent his strongest signal yet that long-held suspicions about his media-mogul aspirations are true. He’s using the election to develop an intensely loyal audience that occupies a special niche: those who think Fox News is too mainstream. Who better to help him cash in on such an effort than Bannon and Ailes?”

The New York Times also weighed in on the subject:

“In recent months, Mr. Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner (who is the publisher of The New York Observer), have quietly explored becoming involved with a media holding, either by investing in one or by taking one over, according to a person close to Mr. Trump who was briefed on those discussions.  At a minimum, the campaign’s homestretch offers Mr. Trump, who has begun to limit his national media appearances to conservative outlets, an opportunity to build his audience and steer his followers toward the combative Breitbart site.”

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Donald Trump may be crazy, but he is far from stupid.  In fact, if his master plan all along has been to use the Republican Party in a fake run for the presidency just to gain a loyal following that goes even further than Fox News, the man might be a genius.

Sizeable Trump rallies that have included tens of thousands of America’s forgotten misfits and over-the-top racists have proven that a sufficient demand for a media outlet to the right of Fox News exists.

Fox News is widely known as the network of the Republican Party (or as Bush speechwriter David Frum said in 2010, “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox”). However, Trump voters support him because he promotes radical ideas that are almost completely contrary to traditional Republican policies. So, it makes sense that these same people might be dissatisfied with the traditional Republican news network. Although there aren’t enough of them to win the Electoral College, there are more than enough of them to form the audience of a successful media outlet.

Time and again, Donald Trump has made it clear he has no interest in supporting Republican candidates or playing nice with the Republican establishment. In fact, he has no real love for the GOP, but only for himself. He isn’t trying to appeal to more people in order to win the election. He’s trying to appeal more to the people who already support him in the interest of creating a loyal following for an “alternate-universe” media company.

So, a Donald Trump loss in November could actually become a Trump TV win by early 2017.

Stay tuned…

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