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There are some things that work.
One is talking about him in a situation or context he doesn't get to have a say in. A court room setting or hearing can do this.
Ignoring him on stage. This worked for Biden. Speak about him in the third person and disrespect him in his presence and he'll become unhinged.
Women of power, and especially women of color of power, having the last word or final say.
If you know how to deal with narcissists, and lets be real, we've all got a few in our life, you can begin based on those strategies.
Your point about the media is well taken and on target. The big thing here would be to figure out how to make him the side show and no longer the main attraction. The media machine is fickle and easily bored. The strategy would be to make everything Trump somehow boring, and to get something much more interesting on screen.
Its some wag the dog shit, but if the D's were clever they'd be trying to work something up.
That's another thing, what you said about the media. 5d chess bullshit aside, the guy knows how to spot incentives and frame himself in such a way that his opponents are incentivized to unwittingly help him. That's the common current with all of this stuff. He knows they can't stop talking about him or they'll lose money. Even though they know what they need to do, they just can't bring themselves to do it. They need the money.