Donald Trump News for May 26, 2016

The good, the bad and the ugly: In a lengthy piece for Bloomberg Politics by Joshua Green – which is really all about Republican National Committee Chairman Reince (rhymes with “pints”) Preibus – there is some good analysis of how Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee in a crowded field filled with many highly qualified candidates, none of whom, Trump has said, had a chance at all of being president (and he may have been right). It’s a long read, but it gives great insight into the workings of today’s RNC, how Trump is changing the party and why it was ripe for change. For Trump supporters, some of it will make you smile and nod your head in acknowledgement, while other parts will make you upset and likely to say something nasty to your computer screen. But overall it is a good and fair analysis of how Trump got here, why it’s his moment in time and why the party is very much responsible for his rise. See it all here.

Getting the Reaganomics band back together: Left-wing economists and liberal politicians will never admit it and are always quick to cherry pick the Ronald Reagan economy, but the fact is economic policies pursued by our 40th president (many of which required the acquiescence of an oft-testy Democrat-dominated Congress) set in motion a 20-year growth spurt that was, and remains, unrivaled in the nation’s history. Upwards of 20 million real jobs, many of which paid very well, were created via Reagan’s efforts to cut regulations and ease federal burdens on businesses, corporations and industry. Trump is keen to resurrect that team and get it working for America again, as part of his promise to bring jobs back/create new jobs and “Make America Great Again” (another phrase borrowed from the 40th chief executive). Again, Bloomberg Politics has that story here.

Look who’s talking? President Obama, on a good-bye tour through Asia compliments of the U.S. taxpayer, says world leaders are “rattled” by the prospect that Trump may actually be elected to replace him.

“I think it’s fair to say that they are surprised by the Republican nominee. They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but they’re rattled by him, and for good reason,” he said, as reported by Breitbart News. “Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that is required to keep America safe and secure and prosperous and what is required to keep the world on an even keel.”

As if this president knows. This is the same man who, just recently, told the Vietnamese America’s justice system is racist, it’s women don’t get paid the same as men, and that we’ve got a bigotry problem (to paraphrase a recent Sen. Elizabeth Warren pseudo-jab at Trump, “What kind of president does that?”) This is also the same president who is universally mocked and ignored throughout the world by men like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. And this is the first president in U.S. history under which the U.S. economy has never hit 3 percent annual growth.

If anyone knows less about what “is required to keep America safe and security and prosperous,” we’ll have a tough time finding them. Read the rest here.

It’s all a set-up: When you see those “crowds of protesters” at Trump campaign events, it is easy to think that the entire country is splitting apart and it’s his fault. But as one of the GOP vanquished, Sen. Marco Rubio, noted recently, don’t buy into that. Many of these people are paid protestors – and the media knows it but won’t tell you that (and he should know).

“Hope media will start to report truth, many of the violent protestors [at Donald Trump] events are ‘professional protestors,’ not grassroots,” he said on Twitter early this morning.

Rubio added that there was a “whole industry of professional disrupters who go to events to disrupt them knowing cameras will gravitate to them.”

Breitbart News has the rest, here.