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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo basically Trump has to be treated like an 11-year-old girl?
from WAPO:
On a recent afternoon, spooning chilled pea soup at a French restaurant near Times Square, Conway, 49, hints how shell tackle this challenge. You cant just tell Trump what to do, she said. You have to give him options.
She illustrates the point with a story about her 11-year-old daughter.
When Claudia emerged from her room on Memorial Day sporting turquoise, Conway asked her to change into blue. She goes, Turquoise is blue. And it is. But it wasnt a shade available to Betsy Ross when she stayed up through the night sewing the damn flag.
Conway follows the same approach with the Republican presidential nominee. Never command. That could insult him. Always make suggestions, backed with information in 10-second sound bites:
Betsy Ross lacked turquoise. Female voters want compassion.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/08/17/more-on-trumps-new-brain-trust/#comments
yellowcanine
(35,715 posts)Huh. I normally do not critique other people's parenting skills but Ms. Conway apparently doesn't know about the old parenting adage, "Choose your battles."
Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)She chose not to argue with the preteen, which would have delayed their morning. Instead she laid out four Betsy Ross blue choices on her bed. Minutes later, she says, she came out in one of those shades.
Yeah, that's not creepy either
yellowcanine
(35,715 posts)Nothing that 20 years of therapy won't straighten out for her daughter.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)He has money thanks to Daddy, and has paid people to take care of everything for him. They coddle him because they want some of his money.
That's the game.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Better treat him like Anthony Fremont, or you'll find yourself in the cornfield, and nobody comes back from there. Yeah, this is the sort of stable individual who should have his hands on the nuclear codes. Elton and Bernie need to re-purpose Madman Across the Water for a new generation.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Raven
(13,918 posts)They have a lot more maturity than the Donald.
Paladin
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