“Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me..."

Trump shoulda stayed away from that verb, "embrace".

It was last used politically by Winston Churchill, to great effect.  An MP from the opposition sneered at him one day in Parliament, "You'll die either on the scaffold or of a loathsome disease!", Churchill retorted, "That depends, sir, on whether I 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 your politics or your mistress."

Anyone seeking to 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 Trump had best consider which of those two outcomes suits their taste best.