The Donald loves the sound of his own voice, and whilst it seems like what he says rushes out of his mouth before he has time to think that might not always be the case.

That’s because he has had campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to guide him now and and again, although once Corey lost the confidence of Trump’s children his days were numbered.

Lewandowski was sacked following an early morning Monday meeting – oh how we all love those – which was orchestrated with the sole aim of dismissing him.

Here’s NY Mag with more:

According to two sources briefed on the events, the meeting was a setup. Shortly after it began, the children peppered Lewandowski with questions, asking him to explain the campaign’s lack of infrastructure. “They went through the punch list. ‘Where are we with staffing? Where are we with getting the infrastructure built?'” one source explained. Their father grew visibly upset as he heard the list of failures. Finally, he turned to Lewandowski and said, “What’s your plan here?”

Lewandowski responded that he wanted to leak Trump’s vice-president pick.

And with that, Lewandowski was out. Trump has long viewed announcing his running mate at the GOP convention next month as a valuable card to play. He was shocked that Lewandowski didn’t have any other ideas. Shortly after the meeting, Lewandowski was escorted out of the building by Trump security.

One sentence, ‘let’s leak the VP pick’, and their working relationship was over. Of course it’s not quite as simple as that, and has much to do with a campaign rapidly losing steam:

But no matter how rocky things got, Lewandowski’s position was, until recently, strengthened by the fact that Trump was winning. Despite his inexperience and hot temper, he held on to his post because whatever he was doing (or not doing) was working. But now with Trump’s poll numbers falling well behind Hillary Clinton’s, Lewandowski lost his bulwark — and Trump was finally willing to fire him. As one adviser put it to me: “The real lesson here is everyone is expendable except for the kids. It’s tribal.”

Don’t mess with the Trump tribe I guess, although maybe Corey should look at the glass as half full.

You no longer have to work with an animatronic Nik Nak mate, let that sink in.

Bonus parody video – it’s ‘Damn Daniel’ featuring Donald Trump.

[source:nymag]