Of course he can. And every day he does. If America can't see through this, can't understand what the job the President must do means to their lives every day, then this country is too far gone and ain't coming back.
In no particular order, Trump today: "has once again insinuated that Hillary Clinton be assassinated, telling a crowd of supporters in Miami on Friday night that he thinks Clinton’s bodyguards should disarm in order to “see what happens to her.”"
Unveiled a new tax policy worse than the last one, made an about-face on Cuba --too much to deal with!
Played the media into covering live Trump praising his soon to be opened new hotel in Washington and getting free air time for military supporters to praise him--all because he's been pushing the absurd birtherism for years and now has a new tune about it--thanks to him, we now know that Barack Obama was indeed born in the USA, since he punctured the rumor he wasn't which was started by Hillary Clinton. Yet another complete lie that plays well with the rabid alt.right.
(Meanwhile at the White House: Calling this “the greatest day of my life,” a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship. Borowitz strikes again. Complete with photo.)
Perhaps one good came of this--Trump burned the media so badly, they are maybe less likely to fall for his shit next time. Or not. Though there are signs of rebellion.
Trump lies and contradicts himself so often and outrageously that anybody with a memory sees it. And maybe that's the problem. Not only is Trump profoundly ADD, he's talking to a society that is structurally unable to retain a memory for 24 hours, let alone a few years. Overwhelmed by saturation coverage of every news event, yesterday must be forgotten just to have enough brain capacity to take in today, or a couple of events from it.
There are three--count 'em--three lies there, that is every assertion he was making: 1. That there was any unanswered question about the when and where of Barack Obama's birth (2) That he sent a team of investigators, (3) that this non-existent team found anything, let alone stuff "they cannot believe."
And still, this guy has a path to the presidency in an election to be held in less than two months.
The media can't get enough of him--good for ratings, good for hatings--but maybe voters are listening to other voices. Like Hillary, who had yet another nice pivot from her illness story when she addressed an audience of black women: "As the world knows, I was a little under the weather recently," Clinton said. "The good news is my pneumonia finally got some Republicans interested in women's health."
Hillary also got an assist from another Obama--Michelle this time, who spoke from her experience as First Lady: “Because the president can hire the best advisers on earth, but let me tell you something: five advisers will give five different opinions. And the president and the president alone is always the one to make the final call.”
Michelle Obama also said what should be the watchwords of this campaign: "As I’ve said before, the presidency doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are. The same thing is true of a presidential campaign."
We know who Trump is. The question is: who are we?
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