The Trump Media Strategy

Based on what I've seen from Trump by watching him for over 20 years this is what I think he is up to ... This is the strategy not the motivation ...

Trump wanted to draw Obama into a media debate, i.e. Trumps puts out a statement, Obama responds ...

He had a bunch of subjects to choose from to try and start the debate ...

The economy
The deficit
Gas prices
China
Birth Certificate

I think he guessed that he would be ignored on the first 4 by the White House but he knew he could stir up alot of media coverage on the last item ...

He started out by saying he thought Obama was born in the US but kept wondering if something damaging was on the certificate ...

He then released his certificate of live birth for himself and waited ...

The MSM jumped on him, saying, see, you released the same thing as Obama ...

He then sprung the first trap and released his birth certificate ...  to highlight that there was a difference, knowing that he would score alot of points with this stunt ...

All along he wanted to debate Obama on the first 4 issues but he first had to get Obama to respond and join the debate ...

Now he has Obama in the arena ... 

Now Trump gets to pick the next subject ...  and bait Obama yet again ...  I suspect he'll mix in the deficit with the college transcript issue ...

That way he gets to try and force Obama to respond to either:

1) the serious deficit issue or
2) the much less serious transcript issue ...

Trump 1, Obama 0