Why Trump’s fake publicist act matters: It proves he’s exactly the weirdo and liar we all suspected

[Her Sister]

Why Trump’s fake publicist act matters: It proves he’s exactly the weirdo and liar we all suspected he was
Trump's fake publicist stunt is the scandal we've been waiting for, one that confirm he is the monster you thought

On Friday, the already off-the-charts bizarre Donald Trump campaign took a turn for the even weirder after two Washington Post journalists, Marc Fisher and Will Hobson, published a report about Trump’s long history of posing as his own publicist, often for no other purpose but to brag about his sex life. Or, in many cases, his imaginary sex life, as Trump, posing as “John Miller,” would try to convince reporters that Madonna wanted to have sex with him.

The story immediately took off. “Saturday Night Live” referenced it in a skit. John Oliver, in response to Trump’s denials that he did this, invited “John Miller” to be on “Last Week Tonight”, to prove that he is real.
“It’s an open invitation,” Oliver said, “so please come on by, John Miller, there’s literally nothing stopping you other than the fact you obviously don’t exist.” The story is confounding, but also silly, and unsurprisingly, there were objections to the fact that this is the thing that people are making a big deal about.

But Millhiser is right that this entire episode reads more like a bona fide scandal than previous incidents where he called Mexican immigrants rapists or proposed banning Muslims from traveling to the U.S. or threw winking encouragement to his supporters to get violent with political opponents. That’s because political scandals, for better or worse, rarely take off because of substantive reasons, but for structural ones: They yank us out of the politics-as-usual frame and leave the candidates exposed in a way that is very difficult for even the most experienced public relations department to deal with.

So why is this revelation that Trump pretended to be his own publicist more of a scandal than his obnoxious views or his eagerness to provoke violence?

1) The best political scandals appear to confirm something people always suspected about a politician, but previously couldn’t prove.

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[RBInMaine]

1. Yes, this proves Trump is a consummate liar and creepy weirdo totally unfit for the presidency.

[procon]

2. Its 3am. Donald Trump, pretending to be his alter ego, John Miller, calls

Chancellor Merkel and asks her what's she wearing.
Its 3:03am. Donald Trump calls pal Putin and they giggle about waking up Merkel.

[complain jane]

3. His supporters could not care less.

I'm Facebook friends with some people from high school (30 years ago). I'm astonished at how many of them support Trump. He can do no wrong, they cheer him on no matter what he does and when something like this comes up they just declare him "Awesome!!!11!1" and "just having fun". I never felt like I fit in in high school and now I know why.

They hate Hillary and can't explain why. I try reasoning with them and when I do they vanish.

[NurseJackie]

6. I can easily imagine his supporters gleefully asking a shop-owner...

... if he has "Prince Albert in-a-can" or asking someone if their "refrigerator is running".

[complain jane]

7. The only reason I can't imagine that

is because those jokes were good, clean fun. No one was getting bullied, deported or degraded in any other way.

[RBInMaine]

8. Their IQ's must be lower than their shoe sizes. I just tell people that Trump is a fucking nut and

move on. I don't bother trying to reason with people whose minds are in that fucked up place.

[complain jane]

4. Imagine if a Democrat had ever done

this? FFS.

[Cha]

9. But it's donald ******* trump.. the m$m will find away to cover for him.

[BlueNoMatterWho]

5. Remarkable

The fact that he not only leaked the audio himself, denied it was him and then hung up on the phone interview 44 minutes into it once a "John Miller" question was asked is remarkable. All purposeful, all remarkable.

[anotherproletariat]

10. It amazes me that the media is focusing on the strangeness of the impersonation...

the real story is how easily Trump lies. He instantly lied when confronted with a story that everyone already knows the answer to...and contradicted his own admission from the '90s. How can anyone trust anything that he says when he has shown us that he is the very definition of a pathological liar?

[BlueNoMatterWho]

11. WTF

And he lied simply to troll the media.

[Satch59]

12. This is the story of the Emperor Has No Clothes 2016...

Trump preyed on the stupid and they just followed along. "Smarter" republicans will still vote for him because they don't want to lose no matter who is the nominee...but will regret their vote deep down I think... He will forever be an embarrassment to the GOP and so well deserved...