2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI'm Convinced, Trump Doesn't Want to Win, He Wants A News Network
The stories are all falling together. He is spending all of his money on rallies, not on a ground game or ads. He keeps floating conspiracy theories that are popular with 1/3rd of people but are turning off the other 2/3rds. He is hiring media personalities for his campaign, not actual political experts. He is also campaigning mostly in deep red states, not swing states or blue states. He spends all of his time giving interviews on other networks and not doing jack shit to actually win. It all makes sense. He has no plans on being president. He wants to build his own version of Fox News, maybe even replace Fox News as the dominant right wing media company. He has no plans on winning and will sabotage himself if he thinks he is somehow getting close. Everything he is doing is just scaring right wingers into watching Trump News Network for their 24 hours of conspiracy theories and crazy bullshit. It all makes sense.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-red-state-campaigning-227283
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/06/report-after-election-trump-considering-media-company-launch-224423
http://fortune.com/2016/08/22/trump-media-company/
http://national.deseretnews.com/article/22341/trumps-next-move-is-to-create-a-media-company-insiders-say.html
treestar
(82,383 posts)Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)but also bad news if the right wingers move over to Fox News on acid. You think they are difficult to reason with now, wait until Trump News gets ahold of them.
physioex
(6,890 posts)But the demographic of Faux News is in the 60's (heck even Anne Coulter admits that), and media is becoming more decentralized. What possibility is there to reboot that type of franchise and make it profitable?
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)Maybe its just about as much influence and money as he is able to get in his life time? He seems like the kind of guy that would sell his children if it meant a few more hundreds in his wallet. I doubt he cares about Eric and Barron Trump.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)It's a declining market but for Trump, it's a vanity project, so he's got to orchestrate a hostile takeover of viewers. And who better to do it for him than Roger Ailes? And who better to pay for it than the low-information voters who will be "invested" in Trump's project?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)and Trump Fashion and Merchandise Channel. Trump Home Shopping Network? More made in China Junk and his own line of Wife Beater Shirts complete with Stars and Bars.
Runningdawg
(4,496 posts)Trump never wanted to be POTUS, he wants to be the most popular man in the world. He got a dose of reality and found out POTUS is a lot more work than he imagined and won't give him what he wants. He needs to keep his brand untarnished for his kids. He will go kicking and screaming it was all rigged only to be reborn and appear in his new identity as a media mogul.
vinny9698
(1,016 posts)How many of us have started working on a career and then have to alter that plan for various reasons? We all have. So any smart person has to have options and plan for them.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)TNN
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Hannity runs the programming.