Dr. Keith Ablow: What's REALLY going on in Trump's mind? (Hint: it's not what you think)

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

This is why Trump is President. He is super smart and has played the Media like the fools they are better than anyone in History. He just instituted some of the most needed, yet controversial policies in history. Yet he has the media running around like cats chasing a ball, talking about crowd sizes. The media and the MDL are just so freaking predictable. 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/27/dr-keith-ablow-whats-really-going-on-in-trumps-mind-hint-its-not-what-think.html

 

The media is all abuzz, again, about the fact that President Trump spent some time during his televised interview with ABC anchor David Muir pointing out the large size of the crowd in photos of his inauguration. Journalists, who still don’t seem able to understand that Trump is almost always several steps ahead of them, once again are heralding the president’s seeming preoccupation with the issue.

Is the president actually so thin-skinned that he needs the world to acknowledge that a huge number of people turned out to honor him as he was sworn in? Um, no.

So what’s really going on in his mind? Here’s my opinion: Everything Donald Trump does is strategically calculated to achieve a goal. His communication is designed not to simply convey his gut feelings, but to make people focus on one thing — call it a decoy — so he can do six other things while they’re distracted.

In this case, Trump has masterfully used the media’s pathetic naiveté and desire to battle him to make them focus on a throwaway battle — his seeming obsession with crowd size (which I can almost guarantee he could not care less about) — while he determinedly does what he does care about: signing orders that resurrect pipeline projects, retooling our broken immigration laws, laying the groundwork for a better health care system and preparing to build the wall.

For journalists who still don’t get it, here it is, again, in direct terms: When Trump says something like “If I were you I would take your camera and look at the size of the crowd,” he is actually saying, “Let’s debate crowd size, again, because otherwise you might ask me questions about my real and historically powerful plans and ideas, which I don’t trust you to report on fairly, anyhow.”

A journalist who might even come close to Trump’s level of strategic communication should then say, “Ah, the old watch this hand while I work magic with my other one? No, we shall not linger an instant on that silly issue my colleagues in the media are focused on. Let’s sit down and talk about the pipelines, again. I don’t want to walk around and snort another line of that drug you know the media is addicted to.”

The drug, by the way, is called taking the easy path of the pithy, sensational, stupid story. And lots of journalists who get paid lots of money seem to be hopelessly hooked on it.

The rest of us, over the next 90 days or eight years, will watch Trump masterfully ignite one squabble after another that the members of the press fall all over themselves to engage in, while he remakes the world.

Man, I am just so happy this guy went to work for us. I’m still pinching myself. It’s like a miracle.

 

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team. 

 

[AP16 30]

I disagree. I think Trump is extremely narcissistic and can't stand the idea of losing in any way. That's why he worries about crowd size, popular vote and wall. 

Then again the media is indeed being very unfair with him.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

58 minutes ago, AP16 said:

I disagree. I think Trump is extremely narcissistic and can't stand the idea of losing in any way. That's why he worries about crowd size, popular vote and wall. 

Then again the media is indeed being very unfair with him.

I rest my case. You forgot hand size and hair 

[yuna628 9,736]

Armchair discredited paid shill hack doctoring shilling again?

 

 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

6 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Armchair discredited paid shill hack doctoring shilling again?

 

 

Yes he didn't proclaim him a self absorbed Dillard. He must be a quack.

 

Trump makes the idiots in the media react like Pavlovs dog. Most of the left ditch low information voters also ..

 

The downside is at record levels, jobs are coming back to the USA, terrorist are being kept out and it's only been 5 days 

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Terrorists, and some, you assume, might be nice people? Holy moly Trump has his Pidgeon's sold, hook, line, and sinker.

[Dakine10 5,452]

13 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

 

Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team. 

 

     Medical Experts Condemn Fox's Keith Ablow: "Shameful" And "Unfortunate That He Is Given A Platform"

 

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In recent appearances on Fox News and radio, Ablow claimed that President Obama had the desire to make America "suffer" and would allow an outbreak of Ebola, said Obama won't "fully defend" America because "he has it in" for America, and said President Obama welcomes the presence of Ebola in the United States because his "affinities" are with Africa.

He also claimed that "something is deeply wrong with the psyche" of Ferguson, Missouri residents protesting over the shooting death of 18-year old Michael Brown, and described First Lady Michelle Obama as too fat to be credible while offering advice to children on nutrition.

 

   He hasn't seen any of the people he talks about. Mixing psychoanalysis with political commentary while never actually talking with the people you are discussing is ridiculous.  The interesting thing is whenever anyone criticizes Ablow, his response tends to be that 'they have never even met him'. What a hypocrite.

[yuna628 9,736]

He is no longer a member of the APA because of his horrible behavior, is largely considered a disgrace to the colleges which he obtained his degree, and is an unethical armchair celebrity quack. I couldn't care what he says about Trump because he has no authority or wherewithal to proclaim it as if he should be so wise to understand it. Ablow and others of his ilk are to medicine what charlatan televangelists are to religion.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

23 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

He is no longer a member of the APA because of his horrible behavior, is largely considered a disgrace to the colleges which he obtained his degree, and is an unethical armchair celebrity quack. I couldn't care what he says about Trump because he has no authority or wherewithal to proclaim it as if he should be so wise to understand it. Ablow and others of his ilk are to medicine what charlatan televangelists are to religion.

To use one more analogy, Ablow is to medicine what Trump is to the Presidency? Or perhaps what Fox News opinion peices are to actually well reasoned opinions?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

5 hours ago, Dakine10 said:

 

     Medical Experts Condemn Fox's Keith Ablow: "Shameful" And "Unfortunate That He Is Given A Platform"

 

 

   He hasn't seen any of the people he talks about. Mixing psychoanalysis with political commentary while never actually talking with the people you are discussing is ridiculous.  The interesting thing is whenever anyone criticizes Ablow, his response tends to be that 'they have never even met him'. What a hypocrite.

Sounds like quite a few of the Usual Suspects here, eh?  Sorry man...

[Dakine10 5,452]

1 hour ago, IDWAF said:

Sounds like quite a few of the Usual Suspects here, eh?  Sorry man...

 

   The difference, fairly obvious, is that none of us here are claiming to be professional psychiatrists. Although a few here seem to be psycho's. Sorry man.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

9 minutes ago, Dakine10 said:

 

   The difference, fairly obvious, is that none of us here are claiming to be professional psychiatrists. Although a few here seem to be psycho's. Sorry man.

It's ok, I will still read your words.  And if you ever need somoene to talk to, I am here for you.