good on what don trump jr. outlined when they were trying to recruit vice president candidates. donald trump sr. wants to be the face. he wants to be the public face. he wants to say stuff as maggie pointed out. say things. he will not do the intricate diplomacy. he will talk tough. then a second channel that operates separate from him. typically they move no cin conc. tough talk and tough negotiat n negotiation. we re on day 99. i continue to think we in the political media especially are forever in search of a narrative and story arc and what does this presidency mean? the possibility is the only arc is unpredictability. you have to have a strategic focus. i brought up truman before.
he thought he would win and knew he would win. i don t believe donald trump thought he would win and he did not put thought into the presiden presidency. president obama in the first 30 days actually said to a group of reporters. i was in the room. turns out i m pretty good at this job. arrogance has its difficulties as well. i think these windows into the president is fascinating. the way i hear it is he was a very transactional person. when he wanted something done, he picked up the phone and it got done. i hear him saying is oh, this is different. all of the skills i brought, this is different. alisyn, i would say, too, remember everything on the campaign trail was it s going to be so easy folks. we ll get this done. the reality is whoever covered washington or politics knows it is not true. i think he might have thought it
was true. look, i ve known donald trump a long time. he is a very savvy guy. he knows what works. what he did and it is worthy of legitimate criticism. he told people who were negative on situations what they needed to hear to really cement that position and get behind him. now he is saying point after point is that what most politicians do? that is how he distinguished himself from the field. he went deeper and darker in feeding the understandings. it took him to the top. he has to own the reality. if he says i was wrong about these things, everybody wants to applaud. cillizza makes a good point. political reporter and television journalist. very hard job. yes. if we take nothing from the segment. lettuce take tha let us take that. this is really hard work. this is what you see them do. this is not what voters
not best representing the white house s position, but you can t have three voices on the same issue. you saw it around syria. 24-hour period with rex tillerson saying one thing and nikki haley say one thing and the white house say a third thing. they all need to get together. cillizza, let s play a little sound of what donald trump revealed about his feelings about the presidency. all right. during the first 100 days, which as you know, i have been saying there s an extreme emphasis placed on the 100 days, joanie. it s not quite as big as they re saying. we have really laid a foundation. i loved my previous life. i had so many things going. i actually this is more work than my previous life. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was i m a
known but we nigknew it was com. he could have tied it to a broader economic message over many months and they have mad more impact. do you want in the crucial days with the tightening of polls, do you hope that donald trump doesn t have any i think the sports term is unforced errors? very good. jonathon has been teaching me about the world series. stay on message. don t make any mistakes. to be candid, donald trump himself yesterday was on rush limbaugh show and admitted, he said, i do this and a lot of people say don t do this, but i believe it is important to answer issues, et cetera. i m one of those people that would say stay on message and drive it home. sum up the argument and do it over and over again. anywhere in the swing states where the health premiums have gone up. zero in on that. don t underestimate the power of obamacare. remember in 2010, this is where the tea party movement came in and took back the house and