It has come to light that Donald Trump once provided former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas with advice for presidential debates, suggesting the gaffe-stained politician pretend he is “someplace else” and act more forcefully and strong while on the debate stage.
The unsolicited guidance, until now unreported by the news media, was contained in Trump’s 2011 book, “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.”
That was while the entrepreneur and the politician maintained a more cordial relationship and four years before Perry last month slammed the real estate mogul as a “cancer on conservatism” and a “barking carnival act” whose presidential bid, if left unchecked, could destroy the Republican Party.
Perry didn’t make the top 10 cut to participate in Thursday’s Fox News Republican debate that has Trump on center stage. Instead Perry will take part in a lower-profile debate held earlier involving the seven candidates who didn’t poll high enough to make the prime-time debate line-up.
In the 2011 book, reviewed in full by WND, Trump recalled dining with Perry at the Jean Georges Restaurant, located on the street level of Trump International Hotel and Tower at One Central Park West in New York City.
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He also said he spoke with Perry on other occasions during the 2012 presidential debates, after the politician suffered a number of poor performances, presumably including the spectacle where Perry stated he would eliminate three government agencies, but he was only able to name two of the agencies.
Trump wrote that during the meeting at the restaurant he found Perry to be a “good and personable guy, much different from what you see in the debates.”
“Since then,” continued Trump in the book, “I have spoken to him on numerous occasions, and every time I speak to him he is so forceful and strong that I have actually said to him: ‘Rick, why can’t you act this way during the debates?’”
“He (Perry) said, ‘Donald, the debates are just not my thing.’ So I said, ‘Why don’t you pretend you are someplace else? You gotta act different. You are getting killed in the debates.’”
“But he repeated, ‘Donald, they are just not for me.’”
“Fair enough,” wrote Trump. “But Rick was severely hurt by what took place in the debates. It was sad to see.”
Trump related at the time “the debates are turning out to be much more important in this presidential cycle than in past primaries, and if you don’t do well in the debates, it’s a long climb back to the top.”
The reality star called Perry “a terrific guy with some solid ideas. It will be interesting to see if he can regain his footing.”
The cordial relationship between Trump and Perry apparently is over.
Last month, Perry said Trump “offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued.”
Speaking during an address at the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington, Perry added, “Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”
Trump, however, may have the last word. He was among the top 10-rated politicians who made the final cut for Thursday’s Fox News prime-time debate, while Perry was left out.
The nine others in the prime-time debate are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, surgeon Ben Carson, Texas Sen. Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Those who didn’t made the cut with Perry are former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.
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