Trump Fires Campaign Adviser Over Hair Remark

According to the spokesperson, the professional campaigner hired by Trump had left an adhesive note with the wording “Warning – customer actually needs a hair barber not an attorney” in the maintenance section of an election campaign plan she was entrusted with before handing it to subcontractors. When one of these contractors contacted the Trump Office asking to elaborate on the remark, the billionaire allegedly ordered the original piece of paper to be delivered to his desk and signed his disengagement order to Hugo on the back of it.

But election insiders said the real reason for the disengagement was a spat on campaign strategy, and Hugo´s little yellow gaffe only the last straw on the horseback of a strained customer relationship. One insider elaborated, before giving Hugo a chance due to her deceased spouse´s credentials among some of his voters, Trump had actually been running two campaigns – one centred on himself as a Presidential candidate and firmly tied to his other business activities, and another one focussed on a yet to be nominated Vice Presidential candidate who only once put into place would be granted equal weight in policy decisions.

Trump was said to have fired Hugo over her attempt to merge the two parallel tracks of his campaign into one dead end, the source explained. Romea Hugo had argued in board meetings that such a merger would make the campaign implementation much easier as it allowed outsourcing of redundant tasks and increased spontaneous attraction for undecided voters. But the controversial candidate attached a lower significance to these features than to his own ambiguous handling of unresolved speculations over his eventual choice of a running mate.

After Trump at a fundraiser hinted that he might pick another anti-establishment billionaire who lives overseas just to poke a finger into the current rule banning the Presidency for first generation immigrants, Hugo apparently took action in favour of the controversial ban. Her spouse, before hitting the ground in an incident of which it never became fully clear whether it was an accident or a suicide, had campaigned for keeping up the exclusion with posters featuring Californian actor-turned-politician A. Schwartzecker, who is such an immigrant, with the slogan “Would you like to sell out the ballot to the box office?” Her new boss then came to see her “customer need” note as part of an attempt to undermine his two-tracked campaign strategy.

Trump was said to have said in an internal meeting on the issue, he might even take as a running mate an advocate of opening up the Presidency to first generation immigrants who is not personally concerned by the ban, or continue his strategy entirely without touching on the issue if that rule is removed before the election, but regarded any attempt of meddling with his weighing of options as a knock-out criterion. The sources said Trump had bragged in the meeting, if Hugo regarded him as a replacement for her dead uniform guy then he would take the opportunity to command her to change her mind even without an uniform.

The sources added that instant surveys had found that voters lured by Hugo´s hybrid campaign approach would as easily be lured away as they arrived, and some of them were only attracted out of nostalgia for the former Mr. Hugo´s high profile folklore of posing with rank and file troops as a bread and salt soldier. Trump was said to have described this as a poorly designed mimicry highly susceptible to treason. They further said Trump behaved indifferent with regard to the Hugos´ disputed religious affiliation, taking no occupation with nonsensical statements on astronomy contained in esoteric temple scripture.

“I want my future Vice President, whoever it may be, to know that you are not going to have rogue staff point a gun at you as to convince you they would not pull the trigger.” Sticking his finger into the faces of the audience, Trump went on to reinforce his two-tracks-one-trail strategy with a fresh order to campaign organisers putting a double test on all staffers including those already hired: “We are handing everyone a challenge of both technical and ethical nature. If you only solve the ethical but not the technical challenge, then you are a good but stupid person, or vice versa. If you solve neither then you are not interested, and if you solve both then we might possibly hire you.”

Behind closed doors, Trump described Romea Hugo as disloyal, spin-driven and dumb and her approach as a step into a wrong direction. Allegedly Trump also said: “Not only is Romea Hugo bent to betray voters, but it is not even her own campaign,” the source went on. It was not verifiable whether its allegations how the billionaire compared her behaviour to that of a person leaning out of the open door of an urban subway train without activating the light sensors was authentic. In the eyes of many involved, even before being elected, Trump is being regarded as more controversial than Nixon.

Romea Hugo had earlier attracted the wrath of left wing anti-war activists when she gatecrashed anti-militarist campaigns against giving war toys to children with a concerted effort to replace campaign albums showing collected self-photographs of children disposing war toys they received as gifts with her proposal to hand in such toys in exchange for an exclusive cellphone application and then collectively donate them for charitable purposes. The software was subsequently rated as a cyber weapon aimed at recruiting children for the military by independent experts, as taxation authorities unearthed a treaty between her family business and a missile defence contractor.