GET A MILLION HITS ON YOUR BLOG THE DONALD TRUMP WAY

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1.) GET MAD AT SOMEBODY

Preferably someone you can't possibly defend yourself against.

Donald Trump is mad at the government of Mexico because he won a lawsuit against former business partners,

 but can't collect thanks to the country's "Corrupt Court System" 

In February, Trump called for a boycott of the country.

That's the way!  Get a whole country gunning for you: a certain way to get attention!


2.) SAY SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS AND INDEFENSIBLE. 

 Say John McCain is "a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured."

Bizarre?  Sure, but people will tune in to see what other wild and crazy things you will write.


3.)  IMMEDIATELY MODIFY THE OUTRAGEOUS THING YOU JUST WROTE.

 Now, a less experienced strategist would simply say something rude or offensive and then cross his arms and pout.

 But learn from the master.  Trump is the greatest, classiest strategist, with enough experience to know better. 

So right after he calls Mexican immigrants rapists, he adds, "[a]nd some, I assume, are good people." 

Right after he says that John McCain is "not a war hero," he says, "I believe, perhaps, he's a war hero."

Can that possibly fool anyone?

Sure.  

This is America, country of the sound-byte diminished memory span.

 Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkinson determined that coverage of the above event was flawed 

because Trump several times said McCain was a war hero.

 It's right there above! 

He "is a war hero," Trump said!

 (Because he was captured.) 

 That's like movie trailers that only highlight the "non-stop thrill ride" part of a review 

calling a movie a "non-stop thrill ride of horrible garbage."

So remember: 

Be outrageous, modify last thing, assured that the last thing written will be the most likely retained.


4.)  STAND BY YOUR INDEFENSIBLE STATEMENTS AND PRETEND YOU WERE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE 

 After he'd been battered for a week for defending his incorrect comments on immigration, Trump released a statement  

 insisting that he was talking about the Mexican government all along, not regular immigrants.

Stick by your guns ... and when it gets too hot ... simply switch subjects.

How could you be so misunderstood you write? 

 Quote yourself, adding the necessary parenthetical 

while ignoring the fact that you needed to clarify your own quote!

It will totally get visitors to bay at the moon and send your visitor numbers to the lunar surface too!


5.)  USE SELECTED PUBLIC REACTIONS AS JUSTIFICATION

There will always be certain  ... unique people out there who will back any outrageous statements.  

Jump on them to justify your remarks.

Trump used his increase in the polls as a defense of the immigration comments. 

 "The fact is that I’ve made a point, the point has now been accepted," he told Fox Business last week. 

"It was very hot a week ago, and now everybody’s saying 'Trump is right.'"


6.) PLAY TO MANY PEOPLE'S IRRITATION AT THE SUPPOSED TYRANNY OF THE POLITICALLY CORRECT

 "I will say what I want to say," Trump told ABC's Martha Raddatz on Sunday,

 "and maybe that’s why I’m leading in the polls 

because people are tired of hearing politicians and pollsters telling the politicians exactly what to say."

And if you write with conviction your outrageous statements, many who are tired of hearing the rote, knee-jerk politically correct cliches,

 might howl at you for what you write but be drawn back by the sense that at least you are speaking your heart.

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