The best Trump's campaign is faked or trying to lose because of _____ conspiracy

[HoverBoarder]

There have been a number of conspiracies out there that Donald Trump is running a fake campaign to:

• Help Hillary win by running a purposefully self destructive campaign. Possibly to help her win against such a weak opponent when she would have had a much harder time against a serious candidate. This includes both the sub category conspiracies that Trump was directly hired by the DNC, and that he created the hoax campaign on his own volition. Article [1], [2], [3], and more if you look, including threads here, and here.
• Get public attention for a new reality TV show, or even his own TV station. article [1]
• Immensely damage the GOP both by denying them the White House and poisoning the well for downwater GOP'ers. (same article as #3 of the first conspiracy), as well as this NYT article.
• Aliens! The Clinton's used influence with some guy named John Podesta to something, something, something..... Trump and Aliens!! Aliens even hung out with him at the Iowa state fair, and might be using Trump to distract from the real wall we need, a SPACE wall to keep out aliens. I think they mean a real space wall, and not the CO2 gas wall we have been creating to block out the sun, kill the planet, and really stick it to those aliens. Article [1], and [2]

The conspiracy theory that Trump is trying to lose is related to the fake hoax campaign conspiracies, but is generally based on a fair amount of factual evidence without as many conclusions on why he is doing it. Most articles insinuate that Trump got in way over his head and:

• Didn't understand or want to understand the issues facing or Country.
• Based his entire campaign on a WHOLE bunch of lies, and didn't want to get caught as a con man and actually having to deliver what he didn't even fully understand himself.
• Trump unconsciously trying to lose while half heartedly trying to win.
• Trump being moderately to severely mentally unstable, and unable to control himself even if it means losing.
• Trump being sociopathic, and unable to objectively correct his own mistakes.
• Trump choosing to be himself and all of the ugly racist and idiotic reality that goes along with it, even if that means losing rather than pretend to be something that he is not.

Articles about purposefully losing are much more plentiful. Probably the best one I have seen is this one GOP Operatives Aren’t So Sure That Trump Even Wants To Win, and many more including [1], and [2],

I haven't seen any real serious evidence for the hoax campaign for Trump, and I don't think that Trump is fully actively trying to lose.

However, Trump has based his campaign on a lot of smoke and mirrors without anything to show for it.

Trump has said a lot of "Believe me," "It will be the BEST," "It will be Great," "Trust me on This," but nothing concrete to show for it. When Trump did give what was supposed to be a major economic and foreign policy speech to reset his campaign, it was a complete unmitigated DISASTER. A massive increase in costs, an overall increase in costs for the middle class and major decrease for the super wealthy, no real ideas on fighting terrorism, a reduction in cooperation with our allies, and a long list of 'I don't know the details and probably never will.'

It was Trump's largest 'The Emperor Has No Clothes Moment.'

At this point, Trump is not going to drop out, and he wants to find anything he can to blame for his massive loss other than himself. Even with his terrible minority support from his many outright racist statements, he has hired one of the leading radical right members of the White Supremacist movement from Breitbart news, and has just about fully cemented his loss.

It was Trump's choice to go down in flames like this. I highly doubt it was his advisors who told him to claim that Obama and Hillary were the founders of ISIS, or the dozens of other crazy self destructive acts.

As far as the conspiracies go, I find it amusing to think about a purposeful attempt to destroy the GOP. That Trump is completely opposite from what he is showing himself to be, and he is in fact thoughtful, kind, generous, and genuinely cares about the American people. In order to damage the GOP for decades to come, he flooded their party with the absolute worst racist, ignorant, and hateful people this country has to offer. Like these ones:

 

[Ladewig]

Thank you for the post. It is helpful.

As for the video, I could only watch 4 minutes before I was too scared/disgusted/frightened.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Agreed - that video is not for the faint of heart.

Like many GOP candidates, I think Trump wanted an all-expenses paid trip in the limelight: running for president is a career for many Republicans.

And I guess he will drop out once he has spend all campaign funds on himself and his company.

 

[blutoski]

There have been a number of conspiracies out there that Donald Trump is running a fake campaign to:

• Get public attention for a new reality TV show, or even his own TV station. article [1]

I actually have money on this one. I'm not even sure it counts as a conspiracy theory. It's just a bold (desperate) and unethical business strategy. ie: SOP Trump.

 

[Ladewig]

I actually have money on this one. I'm not even sure it counts as a conspiracy theory. It's just a bold (desperate) and unethical business strategy. ie: SOP Trump.

And other people will lose money while Trump doesn't. SOP Trump.

 

[Norman Alexander]

I will just say that if Trump WAS trying to lose on purpose (LOP?), for whatever wacky reasons that might be, he could not have done a better job if it had been planned that way from the beginning. Even staying alive and not dying on the trail so Pence could not be nominated instead is a successful losing (or is it winning?) tactic. However I do think Trump is not trying to LOP.

I'm going to vote for: Get public attention for a new reality TV show, or even his own TV station.

This is all free national publicity for Trump personally, paid for by someone else, which is Trump's favourite way of paying for anything. He is surely fully aware that his presidential campaign is in the toilet and being flushed. There is little to no chance of him winning, and every chance he has taken the down-ticket GOP candidates with him. Not that he cares about them, of course.

So that seems about the most "Trump-logical" option. maybe Rupert has promised him something...

 

[ddt]

Thank you for the post. It is helpful.

As for the video, I could only watch 4 minutes before I was too scared/disgusted/frightened.

Then you missed my favourite part (this is the same as was posted in the general Trump thread?).

Make abortion more accessible in poor and downtrodden areas. Concrete example: legal up to 10 months after conception in Detroit and New Jersey. And if you visit the Taj Mahal abortion clinic, you get $50 complimentary chips for the casino.

Yes, it's scary that there are apparently enough people out there who will seriously discuss such ideas.

 

[ddt]

I'll be the spoilsport here. While I wouldn't be surprised if blutoski is right, I go with Occam's razor.

I think that Trump really believed that he had a shot. His whole life he's had success, even if it's that in the beginning, dad had to cosign everything, or that he stuck the banks with the millions of debt from his failed casinos. He really thought he could pull it off. And he did cream the Republican clown-car, didn't he? And now that, after the convention, he has to pivot and look presidential, he just can't and his ego, which is bigger than Trump Tower, forbids him to back out and he doubles down.

 

[simonxlong]

I don't believe that Trump entered with the intention of sabotaging the GOP or helping the Democrats. He was not considered a serious contender when he started out, so such a plan would be fairly silly. I am from the "he got in over his head" school. I simply think he ran with the intent of using it for publicity and to keep his name in the limelight, possibly to launch a new show or some such idea.

This is why I think he hasn't handled success well. He never had a political plan, a solid staff, or a real campaign strategy because he never thought he'd win. I think that's why he's so over the top with his outrageous comments, because it was all a gag to get him publicity. Then all of a sudden, he won the nomination, so now he was faced with what to do next. He can't back out now, so I think he just keeps going along with what he was doing before because, why not?

 

[Norman Alexander]

I don't believe that Trump entered with the intention of sabotaging the GOP or helping the Democrats. He was not considered a serious contender when he started out, so such a plan would be fairly silly. I am from the "he got in over his head" school. I simply think he ran with the intent of using it for publicity and to keep his name in the limelight, possibly to launch a new show or some such idea.

This is why I think he hasn't handled success well. He never had a political plan, a solid staff, or a real campaign strategy because he never thought he'd win. I think that's why he's so over the top with his outrageous comments, because it was all a gag to get him publicity. Then all of a sudden, he won the nomination, so now he was faced with what to do next. He can't back out now, so I think he just keeps going along with what he was doing before because, why not?

Sort of like Peter Sellers in his last film Being There, but nowhere near as funny or poignant.