Politics and the 2024 Election
Trump is Tired
He’s old and tired. And, it shows
The media is changing the way they cover Trump. More and more, they are fact-checking him and enumerating his multitudinous lies and misinformation. NPR, for example, did an almost line-for-line fact-check of Trump’s August 11th news conference. They found 162 outright lies and distortions in his hour-long ramblings.
Trump is tired. He’s old and tired. And, it shows.
He’s hardly campaigning at all. Formerly, he lived and breathed his campaign rallies — so much so that he continued them even after the Electoral College handed him the presidency in 2016. We’ve endured non-stop campaigning by him ever since.
Honestly, it’s a relief to not have him in our faces every waking minute — his media omnipresence feels less. Trump seems to be fading before our eyes. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not counting him out and gone yet. But as I write this, I find myself taking a moment to sigh in relief. Less of him is good… very goooood.
With Trump not sucking up all the oxygen, it’s been left to JD Vance to barnstorm the swing states. Vance’s unpopularity and extreme positions are making him perhaps the worst and most consequential VP candidate in history. I’m sure Dan…
