Trump has a Press Conference

 


So Donald Trump emerged from the Mar-a-Lago basement today to hold a press conference, after seemingly hiding for several days.  I actually managed to watch a fair amount of it, and I must say that my reaction to it was quite different than the comments I have seen online and from the press.  These people described the event as a rehashing of the same old lies, from a guy who seems rather diminished and dispirited.


Well, fair enough, but I actually think this event was a significant success for Trump.  What I think others don't get is the reason that Trump held this event.  I think right now, nothing worries him and his advisors more than Kamala's efforts to turn his own "senile old grandpaw" argument against him, now that he is the old one in the race, and is obviously diminished from the Trump we remember in 2016 or even 2020.  


So he came out and spoke for an hour, and seemed in control of himself and pretty much all there mentally, even if the content of his remarks was the same old garbage.  And that is all he had to do.  All of us, on both sides, have heard the substance of his remarks, if it can be called substance, a hundred times; today, it was only the image of a guy not sunken into aged decrepitude that counted, and he managed to pull that off.  


Unfortunately, that probably illusory competence is a visual thing, and is far more persuasive to the idiots who still can't figure out who they are going to vote for in November, than any analysis of the lies and distortions that he spewed forth.  So I count this event today a success.  I don't think it is going to really do much to slow his current skid into irrelevant dotage, but it's the best he has done in a couple of weeks.

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