There are now 2 Donald Trumps – Teleprompter Trump and Tantrum Trump.
Teleprompter Trump, who almost sounds presidential, isn’t the real Donald. He’s the person reading from a teleprompter words written for him by aides and Cabinet appointees. We saw Teleprompter Trump Monday night talking about Afghanistan and yesterday talking about veterans.
Tantrum Trump is is the real Donald. It’s Trump minus the teleprompter. We saw Tantrum Trump at his rally in Phoenix Tuesday night when he called the press “sick,” threatened to close the government if Congress didn’t give him money for his wall, attacked Republican senators, and hinted he’d pardon racist Sheriff Joe. And in this morning’s tweets where he went ballistic on Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. And last week when he called white supremacists “good people” and criticized “both sides” in Charlottesville.
Tantrum Trump is unhinged and dangerous. Republican members of Congress with any integrity must stop him.
What do you think?
Robert Reich on Facebook
There was a broad group of people who watched Ronald Reagan through his last years as president and marveled at the difference between Reagan on script and Reagan off-script. Reagan off-script was frequently befuddled towards the end of his second term, prone to mis-speaking or outright making stuff up. Maybe it was the Alzheimer’s we now know he had, but as I watch the downward spiral of this president I can’t help but think back to those years and wonder if we weren’t seeing more of the real Ronald Reagan when he wasn’t trying to be presidential. What does that say about the Orange Hate-Monkey? Is he the real Donald Trump?
For What It’s Worth, the original eclipse clip was Trump being eclipsed by Obama, because the day goes from light to dark with a halo of orange around the darkness (rimshot) get the joke? OK, don’t laugh. Anyway, of course he gets someone to make the opposing MMGIF and retweets it. The guy has tissue-paper for skin.
Facebook status backdated to the blog. Trump did eventually pardon Joe Arpaio.
