Raw Story: 'Resents the idea': CNN analyst sees Trump bristle as Democratic attack strategy hits home

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - 'Resents the idea': CNN analyst sees Trump bristle as Democratic attack strategy hits home

Adam Nichols
December 23, 2024 7:27AM ET

The Democratic Party has finally hit on an attack tactic which has found its target with Trump, a CNN analyst reported Monday.

“The gambit, a welcome opening for a party that struggled to fashion a convincing message in the election and that has been flailing ever since, seems to have worked," wrote Stephen Collinson.

The strategy — used by multiple Democrats over the past weekend — is to take aim at the president-elect’s sense of security by suggesting his ally, Elon Musk, is really pulling the strings in his administration.

They “are trying to tweak Trump’s vanity, mockingly suggesting that even after winning a second term, he is still not as powerful as the South Africa-born tech mogul whom he put in charge of slashing the size of government once the president-elect takes office,” Collinson wrote.

The scheme saw several Democratic Party representatives on the weekend TV shows, suggesting that Musk’s tweets on the spending deal — which many say killed the first bill proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson — showed who was really wielding power.

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[JI7]

1. Ridiculing him and showing him as a loser is what we should have always done

[InstantGratification]

9. Exactly!

All the way back to his first campaign, that should have been the strategy. When you look at Trump and understand that the narcissism isn't just an undesirable personality trait for him, it rises to the level of a pathology. It is a mental condition, a full blown psychological disorder. He is incapable of not responding to ridicule, it is as necessary for him to respond to it as it is for him to breath.

The Mayo Clinic's description of Narcissistic Personality Disorder:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662

Look through that list of symptoms and tell me Trump isn't the poster child for NPD!!!

When viewed through that lens, the strategy to deal with him becomes obvious. Flattery from within his circle to manipulate him towards positive outcomes and ridiculing him from outside his circle to push him into wasting his time on relatively unimportant things and into making poor decisions and unforced errors on important issues.

[wnylib]

24. A combination of ridicule and flattery

could work, if the flattery is well chosen.

[jgmiller]

17. Yes lots of people have been saying this since the first time

but nobody in power seemed to listen. The best way to beat a bully is to make fun of him.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Boo hoo, Donwuld. Go complain to President Musk about it. nt

[Scrivener7]

3. Well, it's a strategy but it's also definitely the truth.

[COL Mustard]

7. Unfortunately it's a few months too late

Could’ve used that strategy in September or October.

[Scrivener7]

14. Yeah. The MSM seems to have suddenly awakened to a bunch of facts, just exactly when they can monetize those facts.

Isn't it a coincidence!

[NYC Liberal]

19. We started to do that with the Weird messaging. It seemed like it was working, and then it just stopped.

[Scrivener7]

29. The "smelly" story also had legs, but we were too refined to use it much.

[allegorical oracle]

28. It is working. Musk is literally stealing the spotlight from *him*. Have noticed in videos and

still photos, how many show Musk physically in front of *him*. Once *he* figures that Musk could be stealing the limelight on purpose, the umbilical cord may start splitting off. Just wish it could happen before Musk does more harm.

[Cherrycheeks]

4. I have always wondered why..

Everyone in the media,politicians,etc..find it so hard to attack him. I have said from the beginning or in 2016 that he is blackmailing some of these people and /or family members.


I watched people I couldn't believe fall in line.

[yellow dahlia]

20. Yes. I have always thought he has "Kompromat" on everyone.

[Cherrycheeks]

22. Everyone meaning politicans and media etc..

Don't seem to want to connect the dots when it comes to Helsinki and no one else was in the room.

Muller report, classified info all over the place,in the bathroom,ballroom,basement at Mar a lago.

Video showing him transferring boxes from place to place and Putin and others making all of these moves as though they are testing or baiting USA.

No way are these things not connected.

[BoRaGard]

5. The Reason the Felon (R) is whining about this, is because its true

[BOSSHOG]

6. His boss is an African American. His approval rating 41%

Huge. Nobody’s seen anything like it.

[70sEraVet]

8. They went out of their way to mispronounce Kamala's name

Trump, Vance, and every MAGA politician. All through the campaign, every speech and interview.
So, "President Musk" or "President Elon" is just fine.
If we do it often enough, maybe Chief Justice Roberts will slip up when he swears the Moron in on Jan. 20!

[Kid Berwyn]

10. If only we'd found this before the election!

[Magoo48]

13. Yes, it's a sore spot we can use to keep him irritated.

But, only a few congress critters have really shown any enthusiasm for the long slog ahead. It will require a grassroots movement of a size and consistency unprecedented in America.
We simply will not be inconvenienced.

[surfered]

12. A good strategy for dealing with a narcissist.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. which one?

[uponit7771]

16. Amp it up even more by asking "it matters what Musk thinks..." regarding gov questions

[wnylib]

25. Next time Mr. Trump makes an announcement,

reporters should ask if he has consulted with Musk and whether Musk approves.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. What else are we to think, being that muskrat brought and paid for tRUMP almost totally by himself...

Ironic, considering that tRUMP is a supposed billionaire too...

[BobsYourUncle]

21. One man's billion...

Is another man’s spare change.

[Prince99]

23. Loser

They just figured this out. Not a political consultant but from the jump when he announced I would would have labeled him as a loser. He talks so much about winning, but the fact is he is a loser. I would reminded him that he lost an election and lost many key political battles. In my view he's a loser and a pu**sy.

[Cirsium]

26. Raw Story

Begging for donations - "do you value a free press?" - on a page so packed with ads that you can barely read the article.

[Cha]

27. Bookmark to read

When I get home.

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