Thoughts on the leaked audio of Trump talking to Billy Bush? Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?tid=sm_tw Also Trump's statement on it is included there too.
I'm not a man so maybe I'm totally wrong but seems like the kind of bragging locker room type of talk that a lot of men might engage in when talking to a male friend in privacy. You should hear what women talk about when no men are around. I'd like to hear regular men's opinion of it, not a media or political figure's take on it as they have every reason to distance themselves from that type of talk.
My own opinion, though admittedly limited by my inability to understand fully the male mind, is that he was bragging, bonding. And as crude as it was, I think too that he is at a disadvantage because career politicians learn early on to be guarded, while Trump lived most of his adult life outside of politics. At the time this audio was recorded Trump was just a business guy and a TV personality, making connections and deals is different than winning votes or being presidential.
I have women that I have made business deals with as well as women that have worked for me and with me. Being candid and letting other people take you into their confidence is a powerful tool. I had a white label deal I wanted to close recently, the woman is going through a nasty divorce and so I hope those tapes never come out in any future election bid because this woman told me every intimate detail of her husband's erectile dysfunction and all about her new much younger lover, and you'd hear me throughout laughing, sympathizing and egging her on. And not because I agreed necessarily with her decisions or morals but because I know that if she trusts me and likes me on a personal level then she is more likely to do business with me. People are partial like that. Sometimes to get the ball rolling you have to be the first one to close the distance, with women that's pretty easy, slip in a reference to men, good or bad and soon most women will be talking your ear off and telling you all the details of their private lives. Then you just follow their lead and before you know it you are their best friend and of course they want to do deals with you, favors for you, they take an active interest in seeing you succeed.
And maybe all of that sounds like manipulation, maybe it sounds like an asshole move. But that really depends on your end game, is it an asshole move to help someone have the confidence to make a decision that you know will benefit them financially or otherwise? I say no.
So that was my take of the audio, Trump was trying to be disarming, trying to bring the other guy into mutual confidence. I thought he went too fast, did too much of the talking himself but that's my best guess. What do you guys think about it? Do you think America in general is going to be as appalled by the audio as the news media and politicians seem to be? (Some of the media he is "advocating sexual assault" in the tape which I think is a pretty far reach)
I may have 99 problems with Trump but this tape, at least for me, was not one.
I'm not a man so maybe I'm totally wrong but seems like the kind of bragging locker room type of talk that a lot of men might engage in when talking to a male friend in privacy. You should hear what women talk about when no men are around. I'd like to hear regular men's opinion of it, not a media or political figure's take on it as they have every reason to distance themselves from that type of talk.
My own opinion, though admittedly limited by my inability to understand fully the male mind, is that he was bragging, bonding. And as crude as it was, I think too that he is at a disadvantage because career politicians learn early on to be guarded, while Trump lived most of his adult life outside of politics. At the time this audio was recorded Trump was just a business guy and a TV personality, making connections and deals is different than winning votes or being presidential.
I have women that I have made business deals with as well as women that have worked for me and with me. Being candid and letting other people take you into their confidence is a powerful tool. I had a white label deal I wanted to close recently, the woman is going through a nasty divorce and so I hope those tapes never come out in any future election bid because this woman told me every intimate detail of her husband's erectile dysfunction and all about her new much younger lover, and you'd hear me throughout laughing, sympathizing and egging her on. And not because I agreed necessarily with her decisions or morals but because I know that if she trusts me and likes me on a personal level then she is more likely to do business with me. People are partial like that. Sometimes to get the ball rolling you have to be the first one to close the distance, with women that's pretty easy, slip in a reference to men, good or bad and soon most women will be talking your ear off and telling you all the details of their private lives. Then you just follow their lead and before you know it you are their best friend and of course they want to do deals with you, favors for you, they take an active interest in seeing you succeed.
And maybe all of that sounds like manipulation, maybe it sounds like an asshole move. But that really depends on your end game, is it an asshole move to help someone have the confidence to make a decision that you know will benefit them financially or otherwise? I say no.
So that was my take of the audio, Trump was trying to be disarming, trying to bring the other guy into mutual confidence. I thought he went too fast, did too much of the talking himself but that's my best guess. What do you guys think about it? Do you think America in general is going to be as appalled by the audio as the news media and politicians seem to be? (Some of the media he is "advocating sexual assault" in the tape which I think is a pretty far reach)
I may have 99 problems with Trump but this tape, at least for me, was not one.
