Trump campaign to Arabic diplomats: 'Ignore the campaign rhetoric'

According to Arab diplomatic sources, who have communicated directly with high level officials in the Trump campaign, Trump the candidate might not be Trump the President. Unpredictability and lack of coherent foreign policy define his policies in the Middle East, clouded by differences with Vice President-elect, Mike Pence, on the major issues.

This could be a prelude to an internal debate within the Trump-Pence team and within the Republican establishment before any strategies on the Middle East are outlined.

Three months after Trump declared his infamous Muslim ban last December, his campaign according to Arab diplomatic sources, reached out to different Middle East embassies in Washington, DC. The message from the Trump campaign to key Arab diplomats last Spring was a plea to “ignore Mr. Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail.”

The outreach which was done by his staff mostly to key states in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), had Trump relay assurances to those governments and capitals where he has business partnerships, that “what is being said on the campaign trail is different from how he would govern”, and that he “looks forward to do business together and explore opportunities were he to win the Presidency.”

Such messaging from Trump reflects a more calculated approach in reaching different audiences and a readiness to abandon his campaign promises for doing real time politics and business with foreign governments. His scorched-earth tactics on the campaign were meant to rally anxious voters with anti-immigration and populist economic slogans, while behind closed doors he would focus on a more well-crafted message to use with foreign leaders. This double-tongue narrative will likely continue in a Trump administration with him firing up his base publicly, while being engaged in outreach efforts -with the same people he is bashing- privately.

eddie wrote:If he's clever enough and plays this right, he may be able to please most people after all.

"....what is being said on the campaign trail is different from how he would govern”


I told you.

BAE wrote:

eddie wrote:If he's clever enough and plays this right, he may be able to please most people after all.

"....what is being said on the campaign trail is different from how he would govern”


I told you.

I'm not posting this stuff to prove that Trump won't be the disaster many of his critics predicted. I'm posting it to prove that Trump won't be the right-wing sledgehammer many of his supporters voted for.

BAE wrote:

eddie wrote:If he's clever enough and plays this right, he may be able to please most people after all.

"....what is being said on the campaign trail is different from how he would govern”


I told you.

I'm not posting this stuff to prove that Trump won't be the disaster many of his critics predicted. I'm posting it to prove that Trump won't be the right-wing sledgehammer many of his supporters voted for.

veya_victaous wrote:

BAE wrote:

eddie wrote:If he's clever enough and plays this right, he may be able to please most people after all.

"....what is being said on the campaign trail is different from how he would govern”


I told you.

I'm not posting this stuff to prove that Trump won't be the disaster many of his critics predicted. I'm posting it to prove that Trump won't be the right-wing sledgehammer many of his supporters voted for.

it is one in the same really

if he is not the RW sledgehammer he promised to be
he may not be the disaster he promised to be either.

eddie wrote:If he's clever enough and plays this right, he may be able to please most people after all.

"....what is being said on the campaign trail is different from how he would govern”
I told you.

veya_victaous wrote:to be honest, I like that he duped racist geranium

the more promises he Breaks the better

veya_victaous wrote:to be honest, I like that he duped racist geranium

the more promises he Breaks the better

Avenging Bae wrote:Change is definitely coming, and I personally think this is going to have a good effect on the left and the country -- at least in the long run.

America is full of disenfranchised people, and the GOP somehow managed to get the majority of them (the white ones) to think that it represents them, despite its corporacratic bent. Expect the Democrats to at some point realize that it needs to talk explicitly about class, rather than trying to cloak every conversation about income inequality in the vocabulary of racial discrimination.

It's been a long time coming, actually. I remember when I was in my late teens, early 20s, wondering why the political establishment seemed to assume that if you're white, you're rich and don't need any help.

But our older politicians (and there are a lot of them) are maybe still too close to the Cold War to be comfortable talking about overtly socialist policies -- other than Sanders of course