Donald Trump’s crack political team has unearthed lots of dirt about opponents and has also determined some great strategies for Trump. See if you can discern the fifteen he has already used in the Past (P) from the fifteen he will likely use in the Future (F). (Remember, this is a moving target—some of the Fs may already have become Ps!)
- P F Suggested that an opponent’s father was involved in the JFK assassination.
- P F Said he saw New Jersey Muslims cheering when the Twin Towers fell.
- P F Said that Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s grandfather rode with Pancho Villa.
- P F Stated that Obama founded ISIS.
- P F Waved documents that “prove Mrs. O’Leary’s cow was Muslim.”
- P F Parodied the physical disability of a reporter.
- P F Referred to a CNN anchor Don Lemon as being “dumb as a rock”.
- P F Said that Michele Obama founded the Symbionese Liberation Army.
- P F Said he’d heard that Tim Kaine’s mother kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
- P F Promised to build a forty-foot high wall along the Mexican border.
- P F Promised funding to prove a sitting President was not born in the US.
- P F Identified an ancestor of Mr. Khizr Khan as having laid waste to most of Asia.
- P F Said that Hillary Clinton would eliminate the Second Amendment.
- P F Tweeted that it was Bill Clinton who murdered Kitty Genovese.
- P F Referred to a foreign leader who invaded a neighboring nation as “highly respected within his own country and beyond.”
- P F Told Nat’l Enquirer that Bob Dole was “Richard Kimball’s one-armed man”.
- P F Did a televised impression of FDR trying to stand up in his braces.
- P F Acquired Roger Ailes to advise him on debate prep and other media matters.
- P F Said that “some” people Mexico sends to the US are “good people”.
- P F Promised that if elected President, he’d dig a ditch around Harlem and “make the Globetrotters pay for it.”
- P F Said he’d pay legal fees for anyone who knocked the crap out of demonstrators.
- P F Hired Bill Cosby to assist with outreach to women voters.
- P F Described John McCain as a loser and not a war hero because he was captured.
- P F Stated that Gold Star mothers are negligent for not protecting their children better.
- P F Speculated that President Obama’s father was a Mau Mau leader.
- P F Promised to open up libel laws to permit more law suits against the news media.
- P F Said that The Art of the Deal co-author Tony Schwartz forged “the bordereau” in the Dreyfus Affair.
- P F Identified Hillary Clinton as standing in a 1970 group photo of the Manson women.
- P F Publicly gave out the private phone number of a primary opponent.
- P F Promised to “nuke the shit out of” any state that voted against him.
Answers below (remember, 15 P and 15 F):
1 = P; 2 = P; 3 = F; 4 = P; 5 = F; 6 = P; 7 = P; 8 F; 9 F; 10 = P; 11 = P; 12 = F;
13 = P; 14 = F; 15 = P; 16 = F; 17 = F; 18 = P; 19 = P; 20 = F; 21 = P 22 = F; 23 = P;
24 = F; 25 = F; 26 = P; 27 = F; 28 = F; 29 = P; 30 = F.