Donald Trump said on Thursday he thinks The Weekly Standard magazine will endorse him — if the publication wants to be a “giant success.”
The real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate tweeted a message to the magazine’s editor, Bill Kristol, after the conservative media honcho had lobbed a couple bombs in his direction.
.@BillKristol Bill, your small and slightly failing magazine will be a giant success when you finally back Trump. Country will soar!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2015
This week, Kristol had taken to Twitter to sound off on Trump’s campaign.
Memo to @realDonaldTrump: We are past PEAK TRUMP! Sell-by date approaching. Plan EXIT STRATEGY before Iowa! ADIOS amigo! #ArtOfTheWithdrawal
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 22, 2015
Hey, wasn’t rise of Trump supposed to be dooming GOP chances? Guess not.
“Clinton trails GOP in swing states.”
http://t.co/lUDB6UJxaO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 22, 2015
Perry: Trump’s candidacy “cancer on conservatism?” Nah. More like a colorful pimple, an unsightly growth that’s interesting but harmless.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 23, 2015
Pas de deux.
Translated from Trumpese, ‘I’ll have him dancing like a monkey.’
The essential problem here is that Trump thinks an accurate prediction/endorsement is related to success in the right-wing world. It is not. Kristol’s own record proves it–almost 100% wrong and he is still around.
Trump usually prefers “Faux Pas”
The latest PPP poll, I understand, refuted the Q poll which Krystol was referring to and shows Hillary beating all the GOP candidates. She does least well against Ran Paul [Voters in question: have you lost whatever good sense you had left?]. So yeah early polls, questionable methodology, whatever; eggs, chickens, too soon to count; a white bird never flies at night.