“Definitely not,” said Trudeau. He later added: “Although I will say, I have one daughter and there is something very special about imagining a woman prime minister. I think it’s long overdue. I just don’t think we have to wait that long. I think it should be sooner than that.”
Can Donald Trump be saved?
Most Americans – and most non-Americans – don’t want to, of course. They want him gone: impeached, indicted, imprisoned. Whatever it takes.
But his legions of opponents lack the means. Impeachment won’t happen until the Democrats have sufficient numbers in Congress – and that’s many months away, if it happens at all. And the Justice Department’s Special Counsel only recently started picking through the entrails of the Trump-Russia conspiracy. Indictments from that, too, are many months away. Maybe years.
So, for the foreseeable future, we are stuck with Trump, and he with us. It may therefore seem like a rhetorical (or wholly unwanted) question, but it needs to be asked: can Trump be saved? Can he be rehabilitated?
Per the name of this space, this writer is a war room guy. War roomers like impossible political challenges. We are the campaign saints of lost causes.
So, herewith and hereupon, ten things Trump’s staff and advisors can do to save him. Seriously.
1. Work the phones. Politicians are most human, and most humane, when they pick up the phone and start regularly talking to real people about real problems. It’s time consuming, sure. But have Trump commit to speaking to ten average Americans every day. It will humanize him and it will impress them.
2. Get out of the Oval Office. Take him to places he’s unused to – food banks, factory floors, women’s’ shelters, young kids’ schools. No media in attendance, at the start. Just interaction with regular folks. Humanizes him, again, impresses them.
3. Get back on TV. Celebrity Apprentice made him a celebrity – and somehow convinced millions of Americans the presidency could use his “business sense.” Develop a show for him where citizens can come present problems and ideas and solutions. Seriously. It might just work.
4. Reassign Tweeter-in-Chief. You’ll never get him off Twitter. Ever. He thinks he’s The Shakespeare of Twitter. So, invite people to tweet at him about challenges they face. Have him commit to reading a certain number every day, and develop solutions for them. On Twitter. It’ll satisfy his craving for attention, and it’ll maybe even help out some citizens.
5. Stop revenge tweets. He uses Twitter for one thing above all else: to get back at critics. To get even. He will never stop doing that. He thinks it helped him win. So, develop a team to help him with Twitter. Have them do research for him, and develop tweets that he can use, and that sound like him, but will get him in a lot less trouble. Make him dependent on that team. And show him statistics, regularly, that prove it is working. He’s a numbers guy. That’s how you change his mind: numbers, results.
6. Apply anti-testosterone. Make the West Wing 75 per cent female. Trump’s all testosterone, all the time. He needs people around him who will slow him down, a bit, and help him stop being his own worst enemy. The White House would only improved by the presence of many more smart women.
7. Keep it simple, stupid. Identify three things he wants to do. Just three. Do-able, sell-able things. Dispense with everything else. Call them “deals,” so he goes along with it, and do all that it takes to achieve them.
8. Get him out of town. Voters – and his voters in particular – correctly think D.C. is where good ideas go to die. So, get him on the road, campaigning (which he loves almost as much as he loves Himself) for his Three Things. Campaign all the time. If he wants to golf along the way, have tournaments to benefit local women’s shelters and food banks. It’ll work.
9. Dr. No. Find the guy, or the gal, who is (a) unafraid to tell him no and (b) who he will listen to. Station this person outside whatever room he is in, and pay them lots of money to never leave. It’s really, really needed.
10. Let Trump be Trump. Like all men, his greatest fear is the fear of failure. Help him achieve some wins, however modest. That’ll make him happy and a lot less angry and a lot less likely to lash out. Above all, stop trying to make him a politician. He’ll never be one. Make him the Celebrity Apprentice guy again. He’ll go for it. People might even watch it.
Will these things work? They just might. Try them out, The Donald. And if you’re dissatisfied with the results, you can go back to what you are doing now.
Which is, you know, losing the presidency.
You’re welcome.
Just got this note from an old friend, who himself happens to be one of the best lawyers in Canada:
Warren, you see this? You’re being nominated for top 25 most influential lawyers in Canadian Lawyer mag in the Human Rights, Advocacy and Criminal category for your work getting that asshole’s publication banned from Canada Post.
Wow. Wasn’t expecting this, when I got up this morning!
Per the cliché, it is an honour to be even considered for a category containing so many amazing lawyers, all of whom are a lot more deserving than me.
Anyway. Pretty cool. My thanks to the academy!
PS – On the neo-Nazi rag: a battle was won, but not the war. We still have many miles to go. Your help would be gratefully received.
Alt-Right wants to fire Kathleen Wynne. Vehicle driven, shockingly, by porcine old white guy.
Oh, and snap election? Who does that benefit, exactly?
My first book was about terrorism. What I learned:
Donald Trump always does one and two. He doesn’t ever do three.
20 years ago today. I totally forgot about it. One of my Daisy colleagues reminded me.I would’ve been good at it, I think.
A growing number of advertisers in Canada are feeling the heat for placing ads on The Rebel, a website founded by Ezra Levant as a successor of sorts to the now-defunct Sun News Network.
…Sleeping Giants, an anonymous group, created a Twitter account in November to publish screen shots of ads on Breitbart and to call out those advertisers for appearing there. In February, an affiliated account was created for Canada, and the group began focusing on The Rebel’s advertisers. The Canadian account has used social media to pressure brands such as 7-Eleven, Dynamite clothing stores, PetSmart, the Royal Canadian Mint, the NCAA, BMW Canada – for an ad placed by one of its dealers – and others.
Let’s recap.
That’s just the past week. Previous weeks have been just as crummy, if not more so. The budgetary goodies, the Hydro rate cut and youth pharmacare haven’t really done what they were supposed to do.
Radical change is needed. Three suggestions:
As of this month, the election is twelve months away. That leaves enough time – barely – to make some big changes.
Let’s make them, now.
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