Separate reporting by CNN and Semafor reveals a Trump Reich having mixed but mostly bad feelings about their Orange Fuhrer’s performances of late. In Semafor’s telling, “despondent Republicans [are] breathing a collective (but tentative) sigh of relief after the two-plus hour discussion between two combustible figures failed to devolve into conspiracy theories about crowd sizes or accusations about Harris’ ethnic background.” Meaning they’re happy that the Monday “interview” with Elon Musk simply wasn’t the absolute shitshow the NABJ panel was.
But one anonymous minion outside the campaign said they’re still not convinced that “Trump is willing to adjust” and suggested instead the team elevate “fans and surrogates” to do the work for him. Another said Donald is working on it and thinks that PTSD is hurting him but he’ll get his act together soon. “It takes some time to calm down after you had a bullet in your head.”
CNN’s story paints a considerably darker picture, describing Trump’s supplicants as privately expressing to them “serious concerns that the former president’s recent inability to stay on message has wasted an early opportunity to blunt the momentum of his new opponent” with just days left before the DNC in Chicago, which was when the “honeymoon” was supposed to be over.
“Guess what? This is a different race now,” said one source. “The Democrats are energized. They have a massive machine – and she’s raising money, and she can put a coherent argument against him. It should be easy. Talk about the economy and talk about immigration,” the MAGA minion continued, pretty fucking oblivious to the fundamental truth that no one else on the planet has done more to augur post-policy politics than the Orange God Emperor himself. That he made this bed in which “the border” and “the economy” are just meaningless totems and shibboleths of persona.
It’s Trump that actually understands this, which is why he’s half-assing what Republicans are begging him to do. They would not be fucking complaining like this if Kamala Harris was 81 years old and needed special shoes to not fall down on the White House lawn. They would not be crying “PLEASE MAKE IT ABOUT POLICY” if she had a personal email server that she had “acid-washed.”
That’s what that asshole really means when he says “It should be easy.” He means there should be some similar weakness of public perception that they can exploit against Harris. But there isn’t.
Another source told CNN that Trump is “in a spiral,” and hoped he would get his shit together. “There are a lot of us depending on him, so he better snap out of it,” the minion added, making it clear a lot of people’s personal wealth is at stake on whether or not the fat fuck wins. Lol.