Trump attacks China, waffles on the auto bailout and proclaims Bernie 'weak'.

It took just six words for the hot and winded crowd to remember why it showed up for Donald Trump. The Republican presidential candidate was 45 minutes late, delayed by air traffic that even his personal 757 could not cut through. The speech started with a riff on China's currency devaluation, which Trump tried to put in layman's terms: "Devalue means, suck the blood out of the United States!"

Then Trump turned to immigration. He haltingly retold the story of a boy he'd met, the "apple of his father's idea," cut down by an undocumented immigrant. "We have to build a wall," said Trump.

The audience, 2,800 people-strong, started to cheer. Those sitting in the bleachers of the Birch Run Expo Center stomped their feet, as if trying to power the home team to a win. It took 10 seconds for the din to quiet, and for Trump to move on to the Iran deal ("the worst deal&quot , the media ("scavengers&quot , and his Republican foes ("zero in the polls&quot . In his first rally since a difficult first presidential debate, and an attendant (but slight) decline in the polls, Trump changed nothing.

Trump's anti-politician strategy, if it can be called a strategy, has seen him eschew traditional retail campaigning for show-of-strength rallies. His ad hoc platform of trade protectionism and tight borders was tailor-made for Michigan, a state where NAFTA is a fighting word.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/11/in-michigan-trump-attacks-china-critiques-auto-bailout-and-judges-bernie-sanders-weak/

Not much change in the Donald's campaign strategy so far.