All Prompter, No Quips Make Nubbs a Dull Boy

Good Thursday, Friends,

A funny thing happened on the way to the Republican nomination. The presumptive nominee was begged to stop being exactly what got him there.

The (ex)stablishment is so afraid of yet another offensive and indefensible 'off the cuff' remark emanating from the most popular candidate in the GOP's history by any measure, that they're pleading with him to stick to the teleprompter.

He says he'll consider it, but he's been merciless in criticizing other candidates for relying on the device. He's also convinced that reading from a teleprompter makes him "boring."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he told Donald Trump to try more boring.

But the problem is Trump's right. The teleprompter does make him boring.

Compared to say, Barack Obama, he's horrible at it. No matter how he tries, Nubbs can't be his blusterous self when reading from it and comes across as stiff and stilted.

The Donald is completely aware of how the prompter sucks up his personality, and there's no way he's going to stick with it. The next big embarrassment, therefore, is just around the corner.

I don't get it. Why would this be offensive?

Not that he doesn't already have his hands full over his public skewering of federal judge Gonzalo Curiel for alleged bias in the Trump U. fraud case. The 'Mason in Chief'  claims his border wall somehow offends Curiel because "he's a Mexican."

By now, you surely know the story and that Judge Curiel is an American who was born in Indiana to hard-working immigrant parents.

Nubbs is also trying to explain away his "Look at my African American" remark from a rally in California last week.

Trump's next offensive flurry will come soon, I believe, because he filters things differently than most of us. He doesn't actually grasp what offends us.

We should probably keep in mind that although he may look somewhat youthful, Nubbs will be 70 years old next week, He was born on the cusp of the Baby Boom, and his values and world view are different than those born after the Korean War and who grew up in the 1960's.

The Donald has the white man's sense of entitlement and wants to "Make America Great Again" by bringing back the days when people still knew their 'proper place'. He wants to be our country's patriarch, not its president.

All of this shapes what comes out of his mouth, and what comes out of Trump's mouth is what makes this race so interesting.

I'm betting that sooner than later The Donald tells his teleprompter, "Trump U!"