Michael Moore Explains Why Donald Trump Is Deliberately Sabotaging His Own Campaign

Michael Moore explains exactly how and why Donald Trump is sabotaging his own campaign and why he ran in the first place.

Just last month documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore posted an open letter on his website detailing “5 Reasons Trump Will Win.”

In a seeming turnabout, Moore has now published an article on AlterNet detailing Donald Trump’s reasons for running for president and explaining how and why he is “self-sabotaging his campaign.”

Moore begins the article by assuring readers he knows “for a fact” that “Donald Trump never actually wanted to be president of the United States.”

Writing that he’s “not going to say” how he knows it, Moore writes: “I’m not saying that Trump and I shared the same agent or lawyer or stylist, or if we did, that would have anything to do with anything. And I’m certainly not saying I ever overheard anything at those agencies or in the hallways of NBC or anywhere else. But there are certain people reading this right now, they know who they are, and they know that every word in the following paragraphs actually happened.”

He then goes on to explain that Trump ran as part of a ploy to get more money out of NBC.

Trump was unhappy with his deal as host and star of his hit NBC show, “The Apprentice” (and “The Celebrity Apprentice”). Simply put, he wanted more money. He had floated the idea before of possibly running for president in the hopes that the attention from that would make his negotiating position stronger. But he knew, as the self-proclaimed king of the dealmakers, that saying you’re going to do something is bupkis—DOING it is what makes the bastards sit up and pay attention.

Moore goes on to explain how Trump went on to announce his campaign with absolutely none of the usual trappings and planning of a serious presidential campaign.

“So, on June 16 of last year, he rode down his golden escalator and opened his mouth. With no campaign staff, no 50-state campaign infrastructure—neither of which he needed because, remember, this wasn’t going to be a real campaign” he explained.

Moore goes on to explain the dynamics of Trump’s campaign as it took off – putting the bigoted billionaire in a spotlight he had never before conceived. But then something happened.

As Moore writes:

And then… you can see the moment it finally dawned on him… that “Oh shit!” revelation: “I’m actually going to be the Republican nominee, and my rich beautiful life is f#*@ing over!” It was the night he won the New Jersey primary. The headline on Time.com was, “Donald Trump’s Subdued Victory Speech After Winning New Jersey.” Instead of being one of his loud, brash speeches, it was downright depressing. No energy, no happiness, just the realization that now he was going to have to go through with this stunt that he started. It was no longer going to be performance art. He was going to have to go to work.

Perhaps the most powerful portion of Moore’s narrative can be found in the last two paragraphs as he explains his take on the seeming destruction of Trump’s campaign – at his own hands:

[L]et me throw out another theory, one that assumes Trump isn’t as dumb or crazy as he looks. Maybe the meltdown of the past three weeks was no accident. Maybe it’s all part of his new strategy to get the hell out of a race he never intended to see through to its end anyway. Because, unless he is just “crazy,” the only explanation for the unusual ramping up, day after day, of one disgustingly reckless statement after another is that he’s doing it consciously (or subconsciously) so that he’ll have to bow out or blame “others” for forcing him out. Many now are sensing the end game here because they know Trump seriously doesn’t want to do the actual job—and most importantly, he cannot and WILL NOT suffer through being officially and legally declared a loser—LOSER!—on the night of November 8.

Trust me, I’ve met the guy. Spent an afternoon with him. He would rather invite the Clintons and the Obamas to his next wedding than have that scarlet letter L branded on his forehead seconds after the last polls have closed on that night, the evening of the final episode of the permanently canceled Donald Trump Shit-Show.

Be sure to head over to AlterNet and read the full article. It is well-worth the time.

Featured Image: By nicolas genin – originally posted to Flickr as 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7920625

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