I understand that we are supposed to respect people who are voting for Trump because it’s very rude not to. But how can anyone respect people who would vote for this?
How about this? Trump appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s show and said this:
HH: Now you have said you’ll debate him anywhere, anytime. Do you think he’ll agree to any debates?
DJT: Yeah, anywhere, anytime.
HH: Do you think he’ll agree?
DJT: I don’t think so, but I hope he does. I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning. By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going on there. I want to debate. And I think debates, with him, at least, should be drug tested. I want a drug test.
HH: Mr. President, are you suggesting President Biden’s using cocaine?
DJT: I don’t know what he’s using, but that was not, hey, he was higher than a kite. And by the way, it was the worst, it was the worst address I’ve ever seen, the State of the Nation. I’ll tell you, State of the Union, that’s not State of the Union, because he doesn’t represent us properly. That, I can tell you. But he’s obviously, he’s being helped in some way, because most of the time, he looks like he’s falling asleep. And all of a sudden, he walked up there and did a poor job. But he was all jacked up.
As Dan Pfeiffer reported in his newsletter, the press ignored this to discuss Trump’s “policy” on Gaza (which was that Israel needs to “finish the war fast” because “they’re losing the PR War.”)
As Pfeiffer notes:
When it comes to Trump — and only Trump, the press has abandoned Roger Ailes’ “Orchestra Pit Theory of Politics,” As the former GOP consultant turned Fox News honcho/overall terrible human explained:
If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, ‘I have a solution to the Middle East problem,’ and the other guy falls into the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?
Trump delivers his speeches from the orchestra pit, but the press covers the rare moments he climbs out and gets back on stage.
The only “news” show to properly cover this heinous accusation was Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live: