I and I Alone: Donald Trump’s Campaign and the Arrogance of White Privilege
Trevor LaFauci
August 28, 2025
Campaigns are a reflection of their candidate.
With the current 2016 presidential election cycle, we’ve seen this time and time again. Whether it was Bernie Sanders and his campaign’s increasing negativity once it became apparent he wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee or Ted Cruz and his campaign’s willingly getting down in the gutter against his Republican opponents, we’ve seen multiple campaigns take on the true personality of their candidate once those campaigns faced adversity. With both the Sanders and Cruz campaigns, this increased negativity came at a time where they were being beaten on the policy side by their opponents so they felt they had no choice but to lob baseless attacks as a last-ditch Hail Mary effort. Not only did these efforts fail, but the general public was left with a lasting impression of two bitter, defeated candidates who would go on to become a simple footnote in the annals of presidential campaign history.
The current contrast between Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns can be simply explained by the candidates themselves. For Hillary Clinton, she has truly learned the lessons of 2008 and have applied those lessons to her 2016 campaign. She has surrounded herself with young, talented advisors and campaign staff. She has prioritized the swing states, fully staffing those states beginning in April with hundreds of field organizers and has already gone ahead with a full ad blitz nearly five months before the election. At the same time, she has not written off any states and has numerous staff in the suddenly competitive states such as Georgia, Arizona, Missouri, North Carolina, and Utah. All of these efforts in conjunction with a 50-state strategy has made the Clinton campaign a reflection of the candidate: a methodical, detailed, and driven enterprise geared at not only winning the White House but also flipping control of the Senate and making significant gains in the House as well.
“Compare all this to The Donald.” And I ask why? Why bother, when you have seen the best? Why pollute my brain with images of incompetency, idiotness, disgusting bull crap and more? I will stick with the 2 paragraphs you gave us, rikyrah. especially the second one.
I love how POTUS and FLOTUS are moving out into the world of the media, with FLOTUS co-hosting an Ellen Show, and now POTUS. They are setting the stage for some of the things they will be doing, the mediums they will be using, after 1/20/2017.
What makes me mad and ready not to watch this season of DWTS is that Ryan Lochte will be a contestant on the show. To me that is rewarding him for his terrible behavior in Brazil while representing his country. Even though I have watched all the previous seasons I will not watch this season.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats rikyrah, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope that you elevate, exalt, and uplift others today. ❤ ❤❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
BREAKING: Gov. LePage says he is considering resignation https://t.co/7jJ5gUNBZY pic.twitter.com/VoZfZXkMwF
— PressHerald (@PressHerald) August 30, 2025
Desertflower posted this tweet on the last thread. The linked news item says the following
LePage also apologized repeatedly to Rep. Drew Gattine and his family for leaving a threatening voicemail last week…
“When I was called a racist I just lost it, and there’s no excuse,” the governor said. “It’s unacceptable. It’s totally my fault.”
A Governor “just lost it”. He attacked someone within his own state & it probably doesn’t have national/international repercussions. This is exactly the type of behaviour I expect could come from Trump. Imagine if he started name calling world leaders on twitter.
The favorable ones are probably working for his campaign or want to stand out from the crowd and don’t care how they get attention as long as they get it.
Mornin’, TOD! Here’s my contribution, if Trump maintains his schedule for Saturday … I’m so annoyed by his self-declared (for others) “pandering” that I thought I’d get this out of my system!
***
Everyone thought Trump’s soul was dead
We’ll invite him here, the Detroit Pastor said
But, lo, as Trump spoke to the black church
Behold, his lying tongue began to lurch
And every member of the congregation bowed their head.
I keep posting responses, but they aren’t showing. Will try again - and thanks for asking! He’s doing GREAT. Procedure was a success (of course, he’s afraid to move now sorta kinda), and his chest feels normal for the first time IN A YEAR. Was discharge today and is home napping! ❤
Oh, JO’B, I’m so thrilled about this outcome. You must feel the weight of the world off your shoulders. Please give him the love and good wishes of all your friends on TOD.
Must must read >> The Media Are Doing an Abysmal Job of Covering Donald Trump’s Racism via @thenation https://t.co/HIakUVfjHW
— BWD (@theonlyadult) August 30, 2025
Now, you can dislike Clinton’s speech. You can fact-check it, and perhaps find something wrong—although to my knowledge nobody claimed any inaccuracy. But what you really shouldn’t do, if you are a journalist of any kind of conscience or capacity, is act as though Clinton had somehow gotten down in the gutter with Trump—merely by describing what Trump is doing.
Yet that’s the kind of coverage we got. Some commenters got it right, but the reporters and editors charged with “objectivity” immediately equated Clinton’s clear-eyed exegesis of Trump’s racially divisive campaign with Trump’s calling her a “bigot.” The Washington Post headlined its story: “Clinton, Trump exchange racially charged accusations.” Bloomberg went with “Trump and Clinton trade charges of racism.”
Good morning, once again. Back home; scheduling snafu — they wrote the wrong date on their schedule (I don’t do Wednesdays…); rather than wait an extra two hours while they contacted my doc for a prescription re-write and prepare all on the paper work, I had them reschedule me for Thursday. Actually works better for me as FedEx dropped to tax packages as I was leaving my home…
Off to grab lunch, then crunch numbers… Read you later…
#HillaryClintonSearchTerms health Insurance companies boohoo about how hard itis toprofit under #ACA,pull this out pic.twitter.com/80rJiCL3a0
— Larry (@crazylary51) August 27, 2025
I had posted an article earlier in the month about UnitedHealth’s problems being self-inflicted. Other companies are trying to increase their leverage by creating worries about the availability of insurance going forward.
So are these insurance companies *really* losing money, is it a matter of paying the ridiculously high salaries/bonuses for their top level /executive employees?
When the law changes and you don’t change your business model, continue paying these ridiculous salaries for a bunch of greedy whiners, you are gonna lose money. When you can’t through people who are sick off their insurance and can’t deny people coverage due to “pre-existing conditions”, but continue to pay these losers high salaries because you want a monopoly on healthcare, you are going to bleed profits.
Good Afternoon TOD.
Congrats to all the Gold⭐ winners since last Evening.
Thanks, NW for your continued TOD Supreme Piloting.
{{{{❤ Chips❤ }}}}
Sorry I missed the posting of WH Presser while LIVE. I will post the Video once uploaded.
I’ve wondered what AA’s (or any POC and groups that Trump has offended) would support DT. Then I heard “Pastor” Burns’ rant and saw this tweet and got (at least in part) my answer.
NC pastor for #Trump wants to end joblessness by ‘returning’ blacks to Africa to build roads https://t.co/7gxF3AwB2e pic.twitter.com/N5Q5tfYifh
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 30, 2025
I wasn’t born in Africa, so “returning” is not an option for me. But if he thinks it’s a good idea, he should set the example and lead the way.
These are probably the same A-holes that sold their souls to get their church members to vote for GWB. Many of these so-called “black” pastors in the south got lots of money from the Bush administration and looking for the same from Trump.
Yeah, I remember that, jojo. These “pastors” of mega-churches who live in mansions and drive around in Rolls and Bentley’s while members of their congregation struggle to pay rent and keep food on their table — but are held to paying the required offering each week.
Sounds like a plan David Duke and the rest of the White Nationalist base would approve. I was wondering how Trump’s “base” would unify! Leave it to Uncle Tom to help!
Whenever things like that happen, there’s something about the environment that makes the person think either it’s okay to do it or that the consequences will be minor or nonexistent.
Thanks Nena. I wish I could retweet this a thousand times. Those articles trying to somehow equate this women’s personal tragic marriage to the Clinton campaign have been appalling in my opinion.
President Barack Obama hugs Ed Thomas, a White House groundskeeper with the National Park Service for 43 years, following a group photo with members of the White House National Park Service team in the Rose Garden, Aug. 25, 2016.
Beauty break. The sunset seems to have been the result of the building Pacific hurricane.
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Fantastic news. I despise Toomey with the heat of a thousand suns. If we get this kind of result on election night, I’m breaking out the champagne and dancing and I don’t even like champagne!
Well I do, jackieg, and I will come dance, and drink with you! What a celebration that will be. I bet there will be people in the streets all over the country. because if he goes down, you know a bunch of others are going down. Keeping good thoughts for her.
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Prices on 200 Drugs Surged 50% in a Year, Medicare Data Show https://t.co/rgm4iuXhvq
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) August 30, 2025
Medicare Part D prescription drug spending rose 17 percent between 2013 and 2014, with about 200 drug prices rising by more than 50 percent in that time period. The number of claims—each time someone fills or refills a prescription—increased by 3 percent, topping more than 1.4 billion claims in 2014.
Six of the top 10 most costly drugs in 2014 had double-digit increases in the cost per individual claim.
Name-brand medications weren’t the only ones to increase in cost. Generic drugs, which can sometimes have only one U.S. manufacturer, also rose in price.
Administration issues new rules aimed to strengthen ObamaCare https://t.co/5o5eRtff8c
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The rule proposed on Monday would make some changes that have been sought by insurers to an ObamaCare program called risk adjustment, which redistributes money from insurers with healthier enrollees to those with sicker, costlier ones.
The rule proposes to make the formula more accurate by using prescription drug data as a source of information about enrollees’ health.
The proposal also includes new protections for insurers with extremely high-cost enrollees. Costs above $2 million for any one individual would be shared among insurers.
White House.gov
Good Morning, Everyone🙂
I and I Alone: Donald Trump’s Campaign and the Arrogance of White Privilege
Trevor LaFauci
August 28, 2025
Campaigns are a reflection of their candidate.
With the current 2016 presidential election cycle, we’ve seen this time and time again. Whether it was Bernie Sanders and his campaign’s increasing negativity once it became apparent he wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee or Ted Cruz and his campaign’s willingly getting down in the gutter against his Republican opponents, we’ve seen multiple campaigns take on the true personality of their candidate once those campaigns faced adversity. With both the Sanders and Cruz campaigns, this increased negativity came at a time where they were being beaten on the policy side by their opponents so they felt they had no choice but to lob baseless attacks as a last-ditch Hail Mary effort. Not only did these efforts fail, but the general public was left with a lasting impression of two bitter, defeated candidates who would go on to become a simple footnote in the annals of presidential campaign history.
The current contrast between Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns can be simply explained by the candidates themselves. For Hillary Clinton, she has truly learned the lessons of 2008 and have applied those lessons to her 2016 campaign. She has surrounded herself with young, talented advisors and campaign staff. She has prioritized the swing states, fully staffing those states beginning in April with hundreds of field organizers and has already gone ahead with a full ad blitz nearly five months before the election. At the same time, she has not written off any states and has numerous staff in the suddenly competitive states such as Georgia, Arizona, Missouri, North Carolina, and Utah. All of these efforts in conjunction with a 50-state strategy has made the Clinton campaign a reflection of the candidate: a methodical, detailed, and driven enterprise geared at not only winning the White House but also flipping control of the Senate and making significant gains in the House as well.
Compare all this to The Donald.
“Compare all this to The Donald.” And I ask why? Why bother, when you have seen the best? Why pollute my brain with images of incompetency, idiotness, disgusting bull crap and more? I will stick with the 2 paragraphs you gave us, rikyrah. especially the second one.
And congrats on being numero uno.
Good West Coast morning TOD. Thanks so much NW😘
Congrats Rikyrah on First 🎉
Good morning, TOD! Congrats, Rikyrah! On my way to my twice monthly $23,000.00 ham sandwich; will read you later…
OMG, the BEAR IS LOOSE!!
ALL ON MY FB………………
I love how POTUS and FLOTUS are moving out into the world of the media, with FLOTUS co-hosting an Ellen Show, and now POTUS. They are setting the stage for some of the things they will be doing, the mediums they will be using, after 1/20/2017.
Good Tuesday, Nerdy…TOD Family!!!
What makes me mad and ready not to watch this season of DWTS is that Ryan Lochte will be a contestant on the show. To me that is rewarding him for his terrible behavior in Brazil while representing his country. Even though I have watched all the previous seasons I will not watch this season.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Tuesday morning. Congrats rikyrah, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope that you elevate, exalt, and uplift others today. ❤ ❤❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Desertflower posted this tweet on the last thread. The linked news item says the following
LePage also apologized repeatedly to Rep. Drew Gattine and his family for leaving a threatening voicemail last week…
“When I was called a racist I just lost it, and there’s no excuse,” the governor said. “It’s unacceptable. It’s totally my fault.”
A Governor “just lost it”. He attacked someone within his own state & it probably doesn’t have national/international repercussions. This is exactly the type of behaviour I expect could come from Trump. Imagine if he started name calling world leaders on twitter.
He changed his mind now.
So I noticed - doesn’t want to give up the perks - just like Rubio. No courage, no conviction
The favorable ones are probably working for his campaign or want to stand out from the crowd and don’t care how they get attention as long as they get it.
❤
Good Morning TOD
Nerdy, thank you for keeping the home fires burning with your awesome threads.
This is the only thing I will post regarding the commentary from other black athletes regarding the Colin Kaepernick protest.
And this is the SAME reason that the black naysayers like Smiley, West and various MSM pundits have their media platforms in the Age of Obama.
Mornin’, TOD! Here’s my contribution, if Trump maintains his schedule for Saturday … I’m so annoyed by his self-declared (for others) “pandering” that I thought I’d get this out of my system!
***
Everyone thought Trump’s soul was dead
We’ll invite him here, the Detroit Pastor said
But, lo, as Trump spoke to the black church
Behold, his lying tongue began to lurch
And every member of the congregation bowed their head.
JO’B, how’s your son doing?
I keep posting responses, but they aren’t showing. Will try again - and thanks for asking! He’s doing GREAT. Procedure was a success (of course, he’s afraid to move now sorta kinda), and his chest feels normal for the first time IN A YEAR. Was discharge today and is home napping! ❤
So wonderful to hear this. Will keep him, you and the rest of the family in my prayers.
Thanks, CEB!
Oh, JO’B, I’m so thrilled about this outcome. You must feel the weight of the world off your shoulders. Please give him the love and good wishes of all your friends on TOD.
Thank you, thank you, jackieG. I did pass along everyone’s good wishes this morning! He said he really appreciated it!
Wonderfulness ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Yes!!!!!!!!!! ❤
Waaaay off topic but maybe to lighten the mood…
This will *really* blow your mind…..
My mind has been blown. Paging amk….
It is just perspective illusion.
Yes - but my mind is still blown! 🙂
Let’s get it together, people!!
Thanks Meta I will be sending him a donation this week. Crossing fingers that he can unseat him.
Thanks so much, Donna. This is an exciting race. Issa needs to go and I think Applegate is the guy who can do it.
🙂
#ALL50
#YESWEMUST
thanks for the direct link Bobfr. $ sent!
Now, you can dislike Clinton’s speech. You can fact-check it, and perhaps find something wrong—although to my knowledge nobody claimed any inaccuracy. But what you really shouldn’t do, if you are a journalist of any kind of conscience or capacity, is act as though Clinton had somehow gotten down in the gutter with Trump—merely by describing what Trump is doing.
Yet that’s the kind of coverage we got. Some commenters got it right, but the reporters and editors charged with “objectivity” immediately equated Clinton’s clear-eyed exegesis of Trump’s racially divisive campaign with Trump’s calling her a “bigot.” The Washington Post headlined its story: “Clinton, Trump exchange racially charged accusations.” Bloomberg went with “Trump and Clinton trade charges of racism.”
Good morning, once again. Back home; scheduling snafu — they wrote the wrong date on their schedule (I don’t do Wednesdays…); rather than wait an extra two hours while they contacted my doc for a prescription re-write and prepare all on the paper work, I had them reschedule me for Thursday. Actually works better for me as FedEx dropped to tax packages as I was leaving my home…
Off to grab lunch, then crunch numbers… Read you later…
I had posted an article earlier in the month about UnitedHealth’s problems being self-inflicted. Other companies are trying to increase their leverage by creating worries about the availability of insurance going forward.
So are these insurance companies *really* losing money, is it a matter of paying the ridiculously high salaries/bonuses for their top level /executive employees?
When the law changes and you don’t change your business model, continue paying these ridiculous salaries for a bunch of greedy whiners, you are gonna lose money. When you can’t through people who are sick off their insurance and can’t deny people coverage due to “pre-existing conditions”, but continue to pay these losers high salaries because you want a monopoly on healthcare, you are going to bleed profits.
I assume 27.9 million is not enough for the Aetna CEO.
Not a woman or minority in the bunch, all white.
Thanks, Bob. I truly stand in awe of the bravery of people who put their lives on the line in these protests.
You’re welcome, JackieG. Couldn’t agree with you more!
Good Afternoon TOD.
Congrats to all the Gold⭐ winners since last Evening.
Thanks, NW for your continued TOD Supreme Piloting.
{{{{❤ Chips❤ }}}}
Sorry I missed the posting of WH Presser while LIVE. I will post the Video once uploaded.
Why isn’t Hillary campaigning?
Looks like she’s doing a lot of fundraising and probably preparing for the debate.
I am, too, since one of the states involved is Illinois!
The other one is Arizona.
Why am I not surprised. Ugh.
I’ve wondered what AA’s (or any POC and groups that Trump has offended) would support DT. Then I heard “Pastor” Burns’ rant and saw this tweet and got (at least in part) my answer.
I wasn’t born in Africa, so “returning” is not an option for me. But if he thinks it’s a good idea, he should set the example and lead the way.
These are probably the same A-holes that sold their souls to get their church members to vote for GWB. Many of these so-called “black” pastors in the south got lots of money from the Bush administration and looking for the same from Trump.
Yeah, I remember that, jojo. These “pastors” of mega-churches who live in mansions and drive around in Rolls and Bentley’s while members of their congregation struggle to pay rent and keep food on their table — but are held to paying the required offering each week.
HA!!
Sounds like a plan David Duke and the rest of the White Nationalist base would approve. I was wondering how Trump’s “base” would unify! Leave it to Uncle Tom to help!
Wow.
I wonder. Did he have help coming up with that brilliant plan, or did he have that eureka moment all by himself?
So why is he running? He couldn’t find another job that would pay him for doing nothing?
Does he still see this as a possibility?!?!?!
BOOM
SMH…placed on leave is not sufficient. Should be fired.
On leave? Sounds like the protect bad teachers the same way they circle around bad cops.
I want to see a picture of this stereotyping idiot.
The parents need to threaten a lawsuit. There have to be some sort of grounds.
Whenever things like that happen, there’s something about the environment that makes the person think either it’s okay to do it or that the consequences will be minor or nonexistent.
Thanks Nena. I wish I could retweet this a thousand times. Those articles trying to somehow equate this women’s personal tragic marriage to the Clinton campaign have been appalling in my opinion.
ISIS second in command is killed in Syria.
President Barack Obama hugs Ed Thomas, a White House groundskeeper with the National Park Service for 43 years, following a group photo with members of the White House National Park Service team in the Rose Garden, Aug. 25, 2016.
Beauty break. The sunset seems to have been the result of the building Pacific hurricane.
The view from Berkeley:
Fantastic news. I despise Toomey with the heat of a thousand suns. If we get this kind of result on election night, I’m breaking out the champagne and dancing and I don’t even like champagne!
Well I do, jackieg, and I will come dance, and drink with you! What a celebration that will be. I bet there will be people in the streets all over the country. because if he goes down, you know a bunch of others are going down. Keeping good thoughts for her.
Medicare Part D prescription drug spending rose 17 percent between 2013 and 2014, with about 200 drug prices rising by more than 50 percent in that time period. The number of claims—each time someone fills or refills a prescription—increased by 3 percent, topping more than 1.4 billion claims in 2014.
Six of the top 10 most costly drugs in 2014 had double-digit increases in the cost per individual claim.
Name-brand medications weren’t the only ones to increase in cost. Generic drugs, which can sometimes have only one U.S. manufacturer, also rose in price.
The rule proposed on Monday would make some changes that have been sought by insurers to an ObamaCare program called risk adjustment, which redistributes money from insurers with healthier enrollees to those with sicker, costlier ones.
The rule proposes to make the formula more accurate by using prescription drug data as a source of information about enrollees’ health.
The proposal also includes new protections for insurers with extremely high-cost enrollees. Costs above $2 million for any one individual would be shared among insurers.
Interesting take from Mark Cuban here:
She didn’t do anything wrong - the “I think” is not required.
Did she really say that?!?!?!? Lawd!!!!
SHE REMNDS ME OF A PAIR OF CHEAP DRAPES!..BIRDS OF A FEATHER!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/08/30/thank-you-for-being-such-an-inspiration/