White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday morning seemed to reject the possibility of President Donald Trump giving a formal Oval Office address on the nationwide unrest over George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota last week.
I have a feeling we are going to set the mold for the campaign going forward. Biden is going to be make a televised speech addressing the protests and Trump’s inaction, Trump is going to have a meeting with some governors and security people, and start tweeting that he wants the military taking action (or something equally insane).
The contrast is going to be enormous, and will likely become the framing for both through November.
When the occupant can’t read it’s hard to pull off an “address,” however wooden and insincere. Moreover, as has been pointed out, there’s the very real fear that he’ll start riffing.
In short, having the arsonist supervise the dousing of the fire is simply not that great of an idea.
Yeah they’re finally getting it: it’s not an actual human they’re trying to keep under wraps in there. It’s something else, and they can’t risk putting it in front of a camera for more than a few secs.
Lol I had to read it a couple times too before I realized the mistake, I kept pausing to think: but I’m anti-fascist! You’re absolutely correct, it doesn’t look right when it’s written proper to me either.
The term Antifa is so amorphous that you could be including the brave soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy as well
as those who liberated the death camps.
Sitting right next to me is a photo of my FIL. In US Army uniform. In Bavaria, 1945. He landed in Normandy, near dusk, June 6, 1944. He walked through Europe.
Not a fear, a reality. Trump doesn’t want to give a call for unity and calm, because he doesn’t feel it. He is angry and, especially after the “bunker boy” story, is FILLED with grievance. There is simply no way in hell that they could keep him on a tight enough leash to stay on message…something he positively hates doing in the best of times.
Just look to Charlottesville for a prime example. Trump had no personal skin in that situation. And yet, despite having “adults” in the room, they simply could not keep him on message. No matter how many times they put him in front of the mic. He hated it, he pouted, and he kept riffing on his own to vent his grievance.
Any speech he does today, will be about 1000x times worse.
They must have been so deliriously happy when it occurred to one of them that they could blame “antifa” for the unrest. It can’t be that it’s time to change; it has to be that nefarious forces against the President are arrayed against him. Two weeks ago we were hearing that “groups” were using the virus to overthrow the President; now it’s “antifa”.
Pssttt…it is only tangentially about your idiot boss. He’s part of the problem, but not the whole thing.