Trump Tries to Take It Back
See, he’s going to act presidential, as promised, but that doesn’t include the temperament and judgment part of the act. It’s beyond his range. Imagine Trump with the daily briefing in the White House, trying to discern a tabloid rumor from a national security threat.
.. An easy take-back was breaking the promise to self-finance his campaign. He claims to be a billionaire, beholden to no one. Let the beholding begin. “Do I want to sell a couple of buildings and self-fund?” he said this week, by way of announcing he’s open to donations from special interests. “I don’t know that I want to do that personally.”
.. Mexican immigrants — presumably still rapists and criminals in his mind, without doubt, but unlike the convicted rapist and registered sex offender Mike Tyson, not sold on Trump.
.. “The blacks,” or as Trump now calls them, “the African-Americans,” will be a hard sell as well. They will not forget that Trump spent considerable time trying to delegitimize the first African-American presidency. He sent his investigators to Hawaii, looking to prove that the president was not an American citizen. What they found was “absolutely unbelievable,” Trump said, but he’s never released it. Here you should read “unbelievable” in the literal sense.
.. Women — big, big problem there for a thrice-married man who said his personal Vietnam was keeping himself safe from the “scary world” of women with sexually transmitted diseases. Can’t take back “fat pigs” and “dogs” and “disgusting animals,” or musing about punishing women who get abortions.