Donald Trump would not last a week in a Presidential campaign. Apparently as brittle as those cardboard hotel bathroom doors in Sochi.
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) February 18, 2014
Donald Trump is acting like he’s going to run for governor of New York. But McKay Coppins finds the reality TV star’s act wearing thin:
Standing by the press riser in the back of the cafeteria, I kept looking around to see if Trump’s comments were setting off the sort of frenzy he routinely generated in the political media during the 2012 campaign cycle. Instead, I saw a bored gaggle of blank-faced cameramen and sleepy local reporters begrudgingly there on their editors’ orders. Some chatted idly with one another, ignoring Trump’s speech entirely, while others swiped casually at their iPhones. I became mildly self-conscious when I realized I was the only reporter from a national outlet who had ventured outside the Acela corridor to see the Donald in action. All morning, I got the same question over and over from the local reporters. “You didn’t come all the way up here for this, did you?”
Kilgore calls the piece “the long-overdue obituary of Trump’s pseudo-political career.” The Donald was not pleased:
The profile has already cost one Trump aide his job, 32-year-old political consultant Sam Nunberg. Trump told the New York Post that Nunberg promised him that Coppins was “a friend of mine” who’d write “a fair story.” Trump promised him that if the piece turned out to be “a wise-guy story, you’ll be fired.” It was, and he was.
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