Trump Insider Trashes His ‘Joke’ Of A Campaign

An insider close to Trump spoke to The Guardian (on the condition of anonymity) this week, trashing the campaign and calling it a "sinking ship." The insider went on to say that the entire thing is a "joke," and that the former president "has no political skills left." This isn't exactly surprising - everyone can see that Trump isn't really putting much effort into the campaign, but if he's lost those closest to him then there may be no way to right the ship, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

In a recent interview with the Guardian, an insider with Donald Trump, who spoke, of course, on the condition of anonymity, said that Donald Trump's campaign is a joke. In fact, here's the exact quote. Trump has no political skills left. His team is a joke. The ship is sinking. I think that's fairly succinct, right? And I think that's a very good description of what is happening with Donald Trump's third presidential campaign. He has not held a single rally since he announced that he was running for president again. And you know what? Maybe we can forgive that a little bit because obviously other things have happened since then, right? The judgment against the Trump organization from New York, the hiring of the Special Prosecutor. So lots of different things happening, um, with regard to Donald Trump that may have prevented him from going out and doing any rallies. He's got other things on his mind.

But one thing I want to talk about here in, in this very short quote I just read, was his team is a joke. Now Trump is running for president again. We all know that. And in order to do that, you gotta have a team. But reports from a couple weeks ago told us that Donald Trump doesn't wanna hire a campaign manager. He doesn't wanna put somebody in charge that actually knows what they're doing, knows how to run a campaign. So instead, what he's doing is basically running his campaign by committee. He's got several people that are working together to act as one campaign manager, which isn't gonna work. No matter how close of friends you are, no matter how much you agree with each other. You put a group of people together, tell them to run one thing, there's going to be disagreements. There's going to be arguments.

Whereas if you put the one person in charge and says, this is what's happening, no questions about it, do it. That's how you run it. You know, Donald Trump, for somebody who, who likes to rule his own businesses, I would think he would know that that's the best way to run things with the one leader in everybody else doing their respective jobs. That's how you keep things going. But that's not what Trump wants to do. And the reason of course for that is because Donald Trump doesn't want to be in the news in a couple months saying he fired his campaign manager. So if you don't have anybody really taking over that job, you can switch 'em out. See, that's the point of it. The first time, one of those people in this so-called committee pushed back on him, they're gone and he'll replace 'em with somebody else who's gonna be a spineless. Yes, man, that's the whole point of this. Trump doesn't want competent people working on his campaign. He wants people working on his campaign. That'll never tell him no. But you sacrifice quality when you focus too much on the loyalty part of it, because whatever stupid and crazy

Idea you come up with, they have to say yes to, or they know they lose their jobs. So you're gonna keep making these mistakes. It's going to continue hurting your failing campaign. You've lost support consistently in every poll that's come out since you announced your presidency. The or your, your run for president, excuse me, this isn't going well. And based on your leadership abilities, it's probably gonna be a lot worse. It's already bad enough. Now that you've got your own people speaking out to the press about how bad it is, just imagine how much worse it's gonna get a couple of months down the road.