My 2 cents on how to add fuel to the Trumpster fire during the debates — take away his signature phrase: “BELIEVE ME”.
He says it all the time, and by now probably doesn’t even know when he is doing it. Hillary should declare, at the outset, something like the following:
Donald Trump makes a lot of big promises, but whenever someone questions him on how he would fulfill them, he can’t give any details. Instead he always falls back on the same line used by shady used-car salesmen — “BELIEVE ME”.
When asked to explain how he would deport 11 million people, he can’t — he just says, “BELIEVE ME”.
When asked to explain his “secret plan” to defeat ISIS, he can’t — he just says, “BELIEVE ME”.
He says that he, alone, can solve all our problems — “BELIEVE ME”.
Well, we don’t believe you Donald. So to everyone watching here and at home, listen closely tonight — whenever you hear Donald Trump say, “BELIEVE ME”, you can almost always be sure that you should not.
This has a twofold purpose
to make listeners pre-disposed to listen for the phrase, and question whatever immediately preceded it, to make Trump self-conscious about falling back on this catchphrase, thereby distracting him and “short-circuiting” his already barely coherent thought process.And if the audience catches on, and starts to titter every time he drops this line, the mockery will just add to the destructive feed-back loop in his brain.
Lord knows I would not want to get inside Trump’s head, but this might just be a good way for Hillary to do so.