President Trump was interviewed by Kristen Welker for Meet The Press. It did not go well. But for whom?
For some, this was one of the most revealing interviews, reflecting Trump’s detachment from reality, abusiveness toward the media in general and a woman interviewer in particular, and inability to deal with any challenge to his delusional beliefs. Was it possible that anyone could watch this interview and reach any conclusion other than Trump being manifestly unfit for office? Of course it was possible.
NBC Anchor BEGS FOR MERCY After Trump BRUTALLY DEMOLISHES HER To Her Face THEN WALKS OFF Interview!
Rather than this being about Trump, in the eyes of MAGA, this was about Welker.
You can see the crazy in her eyes.
Forget about what Trump said and just look at her eyes, where you can see the stages of TDS.
Was it disrespectful of Welker to challenge Trump’s baseless assertions? The MAGA faithful see it that way, both because they believe that what Trump was saying was the gospel and because they find it abhorrent that the radical left lunatics in the crooked and/or stupid fake press do not treat Trump with the obsequiousness they have come to expect.
From the MAGA perspective, Trump not only showed Welker who’s boss, but “brutally demolished” her in the process.
It’s so great having a president who says what we are thinking to the intellectually dishonest talking heads
“You’re either crooked or you’re stupid.” O M G what a great response.
The media is the enemy of the people! You can’t hate them enough.
Prez drops the mic and then steps on it… BOSS!
trump’s best interview
Where, amid these reactions to the interview, can common ground be found? To the extent the MAGA faithful blame wrongs by Trump on the “fake” news, this interview reflects Trump. Trump said what he said. It wasn’t someone “explaining” what Trump said, to then be spun as some nefarious propaganda promoted by the legacy media’s hatred of Trump, but words straight from his mouth. And yet, it still doesn’t matter
There is no overlap in the Venn diagram of the MAGA faithful and the rest of America. That’s not to say there aren’t Trump supporters who aren’t members of the cult, and recognize that he is a vulgar, lying, narcissistic ignoramus, but hold their nose and support him because they find the woke left even more dangerous or insufferable. But at what point and in what way can Americans return to a shared reality, and thereby work toward a shared future, when there is a significant (say 30% perhaps) group of Americans who happily live in Trump’s fantasy world?
I would have expected Trump’s conduct in this interview to have had an impact on those who drank the Kool-Aid, watching their beloved president sink into a hole of infantile invective, lies and delusions. But I would have been wrong. If this didn’t do it, will anything? Epstein? Iran? The economy? Anything?