The president of the United States just barged into America’s living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps.
When a president asks for network time, it’s usually to announce something important. But tonight, Donald Trump did not give anything like a normal speech or address. He was clearly working from a prepared text, but it sounded like one he’d written—or dictated angrily—himself, because it was full of bizarre howlers that even Trump’s second-rate speech-writing shop would probably have avoided, such as his assertion that inflation when he took office was the worst it had been in 48 years. (Why did he pick 1977 as a benchmark? Who knows. But he’s wrong.) He read the speech quickly, his voice rising in frustration as he hurled one lie after another into the camera.
We could take apart Trump’s fake facts, as checkers and pundits will do in the next few days. But perhaps more important than false statements—which for Trump are par for the course—was his demeanor. Americans saw a president drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job. For 20 minutes, he vented his hurt feelings without a molecule of empathy or awareness. Economic concerns? Shut up, you fools, the economy is doing fine. (And if it isn’t, it’s not his fault—it’s Joe Biden’s.) Foreign-policy jitters? Zip it, you wimps, America is strong and respected.
FRANTIC THAT FACTS R BEING EXPOSED....WATCH A MANCHILD HAVE A TANTRUM......
Everyone was expecting a declaration of war on Venezuela. Maybe on Monday? Or wait for the new year? Bad optics sending American troops into combat before Christmas.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
U SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THE WAR ANNOUNCEMENT IS A NON ISSUE....WAIT AND WATCH...THE BEST AND FINEST METHOD TO TURN THE NEWS CYCLE IS CREATE BIGGER
PROBLEMS...DISTRACTION IS SUCH A DELIGHTFUL PLOY.
