I've been joking that Joe Biden has managed the impossible: make Donald Trump the least interesting person in the (metaphorical) room.
It's not because Trump is any less interesting than normal--he has kept his schedule going and appealing to his base. But what he hasn't done is to step on the "Joe Biden is senile and Democrats are freaking out" story.
He hasn't even inserted himself into the discussion. He's let the Democrats and the country focus on Joe Biden's and the Democrats' problems. And, as much as the Democrats try to change the subject back to Donald Trump, nobody cares.
"The President had a cold."
— Clarity (@covid_clarity) July 3, 2024
Highlights from the press conference as the White House desperately tries to quell concerns. pic.twitter.com/jmZGEFdzuI
Donald Trump is not being interesting, and that is absolutely brilliant. Genius, even.
For all his virtues as a candidate--his humor, his ability to keep people riveted, and his P.T. Barnum-level sales ability--he has never known when to shut up.
KJP is asked if Joe Biden takes an afternoon nap, declines to answer. I’m not sure we have ever seen a White House dumpster fire this big: pic.twitter.com/Mb0lYNFPCG
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 3, 2024
Until now.
Trump has exercised a kind of discipline that few, if any, people thought he could.
Exactly. Don't give them any fodder to take away from the disaster that Biden is.
— Capitalist Mike 🇺🇲 (@Capitalist_Mike) July 3, 2024
Honestly, now: did you ever expect that Trump would ever surrender the spotlight to anyone else? To JOE F'ING BIDEN?
Never in a million years would I have thought it possible. Yet here we are. Trump clearly has a strategy to surrender the stage to the Democrats because the Democrats are destroying themselves before the country's eyes.
BREAKING: Biden and Harris join campaign call to say they will keep fighting after debate flop, AP sources say https://t.co/b0rboFR2GX
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 3, 2024
Frank Fleming, who I have followed now for 2 decades because he can be extremely funny, hit the nail on the head:
The way Trump is remaining completely silent while the Democrats self-destruct is kinda scary; it's like that scene in Jurassic Park where the velociraptor uses the door handle.
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) July 3, 2024
Trump's campaign has put out some snippets of others taking shots at Biden and the weak defenses being provided for the president's disastrous debate performance, but they have been amazingly low-key.
Trump. Low-key.
In the SAME SENTENCE. Who would have thought that possible?
Now that all the liberal journalists are claiming they didn't try to cover up Biden's deteriorating mental condition, here's a supercut of them claiming any and all damaging videos of Biden are fake and/or deceptively edited. pic.twitter.com/XI5zeTGih5
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 3, 2024
If nothing else, this shows that Donald J. Trump has the capacity to learn. He has always had a killer instinct, but his usual tool for killing is to charge like a bull, not tiptoe like a ninja.
We are seeing Ninja Trump. Wow.
Donald Trump now leads President Biden by six percentage points among likely voters after last week’s debate, a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College showed. https://t.co/6kUsrsQFrn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 3, 2024
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