Trump is still pantomiming the same old manic exaggerations and empty boasts, writes anamariecox. But if you listen closely, you’ll hear the whisper of a deflating air bag.
At a campaign stop in Iowa, a potential caucus-goer bemoaned that “we have lost people because you supported the jab.”to take full credit for the actual medicine, making it sound like he helped make way for a life-saving treatment on a dare: “Everyone wanted a vaccine at that time, and I was able to do something that nobody else could have done.”
Tuesday night, in part two of the Baier interview, Trump seems to have given up completely on that particular resume-builder. Baier pressed him on why he doesn’t talk about the vaccine more. Replied the former president, “I really don’t want to talk about it because, as a Republican, it’s not a great thing to talk about, because for some reason it’s just not.”
There’s saying the quiet part loud and then there’s whatever that was — saying the quiet part pathetically. And when Baier expressed confusion at Trump’s incuriosity , Trump somehow showed even less backbone. “Yeah, for some reason,” he told the host. “Because people love the vaccines and people hate the vaccines. But conservatives aren’t — and I understand both sides of it, by the way.”
Trump’s tic of walking back what he used to campaign on is obviously still connected to his idea of what people want to hear. Trump’s tic of walking back what he used to campaign on is obviously still connected to his idea of what people want to hear. He’s still campaigning, but it’s hard to bluster convincingly when you’re undercutting your own policy agenda, as when he tried to cast Florida governor
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