I propose that Donald Trump has '
trolled his way to the top' (borrowed from
tomonews) and has relatively carefully planned certain actions a couple of moves out. One of these was the 'fascist salute' thing. One night he did it one way which was harmless and funny. The next night he did it a different way which was even more in harmless and fun. Fairly quickly a bunch of left-leaning imbeciles jumped on it and tried to make it into a Hitler thing. Trump then proceeded to make these people look petty and stupid and he continues to do it to this day. That's how I see it at least.
Now the meat thing. Romney started out by dis'n Trump steaks as a failed business venture. Now the fun begins. Trump responds with his press conference which resembled Home Shopping Network where he displayed all of the wares that Romney had hit on. Including streaks.
Of course it is true that 'Trump Steaks' sold at the Sharper Image was a failure and defunct. Trump seems to have purchased the steaks at a grocery, though one that one of his hotels or whatever uses for their kitchen from time to time. Tactical error? I argue not. It was certain that reporters would figure out the 'scam' right away. They even left the vendor's wrapper on the steaks just to help out.
I suggest that Trump (or someone in his campaign) realised that they could get the entire left-leaning media hyperventilating about his meat and looking like the poster child of desperate losers grasping at trivialities to smear him. This will pay dividends as more important things come up later and people have become accustom to the idiocy of his detractors in the press. He also may have calculated (correctly) that the Left has been completely conditioned for the war-on-cows by the agenda-21 nonsense and the sight of red cow flesh would drive them into a blind rage.
The poll is to see who agrees with me that Trump and/or his strategists are this smart.
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As I was developing this theory, it occurred to me that a great punch-line would be something like "
{Hillary|Biden|whoever} just doesn't seem to be able to keep their mind off my meat." Sure enough, at the start of the debate tonight, Anderson Cooper just had to interject something about Trump's meat, and it wasn't even that graceful. When I saw that, I went looking for an image of Cooper looking gay. In doing so I ran across the fact that the guy really is gay! I had not realized this. My 'gaydar' never did work very well.
