Do NOT believe for one second that Trump, the ex-president, a convicted felon is changing his stripes….
He isn’t……
Efforts to sell you that he’s moving to the middle is Bull Shit…..
Last night’s nomination acceptance speech started on middle thing but then reverted back to ‘The REAL’ Donald Trump , cry and whining about how people don’t do what he wants and him looking to get even….
One has hope that when Democrats finally get their shit together and turn against Trump, not their own?
They will find plenty of Trump stuff to beat him with…
It began with as intensely personal an account as any presidential nominee has ever delivered — a step-by-step retelling of his near-death experience. And as soon as that narrative ended, it became… a Trump rally speech, with the prepared text delivered in a monotone worthy of a bus driver’s announcement, interrupted by lengthy ad lib riffs, jokes, shout-outs and a litany of “never seen anything like it” and “like never before.”
Even after what for anyone would be a life-changing experience, Trump remained Trump.
Some Republican allies had claimed he had become a changed man after the assassination attempt. The Trump campaign promised a convention that promoted unity. Trump himself said he ripped up his original speech and that he wouldn’t even mention by name his opponent President Joe Biden. None of it was true; Trump couldn’t help himself, not completely…..
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His convention speech was another example of Trump’s belief — justified to be sure, at least as his followers are concerned — that anything he says, any off-the-wall observation, any “alternative fact,” will be met with rapturous cheers. This was true for both the hits from previous campaigns, like his assault on other nations as grifters and “plunderers,” as well as more recent messages, like his demand to end the criminal cases against him. He is delighted to recount poll numbers, conversations with a waitress (who explains that tips are not given in cash anymore) and anything that redounds to the self-image of the smartest man in the world.
The speech, all 90-plus minutes of it, was a lesson to all the talking heads who were seeing in Trump’s demeanor a sense of humility, serenity, a newfound sense of life’s meaning.
Maybe we should have known when he came out in front of a huge electric sign with “TRUMP” lighting up the hall. Even a near-death experience did not change a lifetime of self-aggrandizement.
Trump remains Trump.
For a battered, demoralized Democratic Party, that may be the one piece of good news this week.