Opinion: For Trump, Morning in America never seems to dawn
By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist May 10 at 6:55 PM How can it be Morning in America when the president keeps acting like it’s midnight in Hades?
Take Thursday’s announcement that he was rolling out new plans to cut health-care prices. With lawmakers assembled in the Roosevelt Room, he spoke of a “bold, new initiative,” “very special,” an “incredible success.” He boasted that “drug prices saw their first decline in 46 years,” and said he was protecting patients, bringing transparency, holding insurance companies accountable, working on a “great health-care bill” and getting bipartisan support.Then he took questions.
Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, told Politico this week that he wants Trump’s message to be “more proactive” and “less reactive.” Said Mulvaney: “We want to talk about the economy . . . so if we can try to drive the narrative a little bit more, we think that would be a valuable improvement.”A week ago, when the jobs report came out, Trump justifiably crowed. “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” he exulted. “We can all agree that AMERICA is now #1.
Bill Frischling, founder of Factba.se, the indispensable online collection of all Trump’s rhetoric, analyzed the president’s language for me and found a highly unusual pattern. Can he tone it down? Does he even want to? They say it’s always darkest before dawn, but for Trump, Morning in America never seems to break.
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