Debate Baiting

From The New York Times:

Hillary Clinton's advisers are talking to Donald J. Trump’s ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” seeking insights about Mr. Trump’s deepest insecurities as they devise strategies to needle and undermine him in four weeks at the first presidential debate, the most anticipated in a generation. Her team is also getting advice from psychology experts to help create a personality profile of Mr. Trump to gauge how he may respond to attacks and deal with a woman as his sole adversary on the debate stage.

They are undertaking a forensic-style analysis of Mr. Trump’s performances in the Republican primary debates, cataloging strengths and weaknesses as well as trigger points that caused him to lash out in less-than-presidential ways.

Hillary's campaign should also look into pre-debate ways to provoke Trump into saying stupid shit, i.e., do or say something the day of a debate that will cause Donald to lash out during the debate itself.  Trump seems to be particularly susceptible to this kind of baiting:  

“As Donald Trump arrived in Phoenix late Wednesday, fresh from a visit to Mexico City’s presidential palace, he had in his hands a big immigration speech that omitted the usual line that Mexico would have to pay for his proposed wall along the U.S. southern border,” the Wall Street Journal reports.  “Just after landing, though, Mr. Trump discovered that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto had tweeted that he had told the Republican presidential nominee during their private meeting earlier that day that his country would refuse to pay for the wall.”

“So Mr. Trump hurriedly inserted a new sentence in his immigration speech, and he soon boomed out from the podium his traditional declaration that the wall would be paid for by Mexico — adding, ‘They don’t know it yet but they’re going to pay for the wall.'”  Said Trump: “I had no choice.”

Trump, in admitting he "had no choice" but to change his speech in response to the Mexican president's tweet, demonstrates that even he realizes he has no self-control when challenged this way.  Needless to say, this is a remarkable admission, especially given that it comes from someone running for President of the United States.