Donald Trump's Campaign VS Governing

"Donald Trump press secretary has DISASTER moment at briefing" 

Source:Brian Tyler Cohen with a look at President Donald J. Trump's current press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

From Brian Tyler Cohen

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote about this in December: 

"This takes me back to Donald Trump's last Meet The Press interview with Kristen Welker, where he admitted that he might not be able to bring down the cost of living, because it's too high. 

Now imagine if you were on some month long meth high, (and somehow managed to survive that) or were drunk for a month straight, (and somehow managed to to survive that) perhaps you were vacationing on Planet Zoron (or some other made up Star Trek planet) and you saw Donald Trump there and he was completely honest about everything. Perhaps not intentional, but he simply couldn't lie about anything, perhaps by force. Perhaps someone spiked his Diet Coke with truth serum.

So now this made up character (lets call him Honest Don) is being interviewed by Kristen Welker, or some other NBC News anchor, or some other news journalist was asking him questions about what his 2nd presidential agenda will be, what he would do as President again, etc, and she asked him the same questions. And remember, Donald Trump can't lie anymore in this hypothetical. His answers to these questions might sound something like this: 

"Well, running for President of the United States and being President are two different things. You have to say and do things just to get the job. But once you have it, saying what you are going to do and actually doing what you are going to do, are two different things. 

My MAGA base, as well as a solid majority of Independent voters, believe everything that I tell them. So I can just make up things and say I'm going to do things, promise to do things that are simply impossible to accomplish. And they eat everything that I feed them. 

Which gives me a great advantage over every Democratic, as well as Republican opponent that I've ever faced, because my opponents are always expected to be honest and truthful about everything. Or the media and voters slam them anytime they're wrong or dishonest about anything, anywhere, at anytime. 

Just because I ran on tariffs, and mass deportations doesn't mean I'm actually going to do them as President of the United States. I can't afford to have a weak economy and low job approval going into 2026, because then I won't be able to get anything done. And that could risk Democrats winning back Congress, which would make my life very difficult."

From The New Democrat

Think about this: Donald J. Trump is a lame duck President, (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't rewrite the 22nd Amendment and carve out a special exception just for him) and the Supreme Court basically just gave him presidential immunity to essentially do whatever the hell he wants to in The White House, while he's President. At least when it comes to any potential criminal activities that he might be involved in.

And because the Lyin Don character that Donald J. Trump has been playing... really his entire professional career (now that I think about it) could really be put to bed now since he's a lame duck President. Which gives him so much freedom to be honest for the first time, at least in his adult life. 

President Trump now has the political freedom to essentially say what Fred Schneider got into 2 months ago: 

"Well running for President is not the same thing as being President. You say things to get elected. But once you are in office, you do things differently because if I ran on what really wanted to do, I wouldn't have won. 

Yeah, I ran on lowering the cost of living in America. But I'm a billionaire, who represents a lot of other billionaires and people worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They wouldn't have supported me if I thought I was going to lower prices for hard-working, middle class Americans. Because that would've hurt their personal, financial, bottom lines." 

Fred Schneider touched on this in December as well: imagine if Mr. Trump just axed his Lyin Don character and replaced him with Honest Don, (which I know sounds as made up as Santa Clause on Mars) what political price could he possibly pay for that? He's out of The White House in less than 4 years. (Unless the Supreme Court unconstitutionally bails him out) And if the Supreme Court does let him run again and he loses again, he could just declare himself the winner anyway by executive order. And if he has the U.S. Government locked in by that point, who would stop him from just staying in office for life? 

I mean all White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did today by admitting that President Trump doesn't have a timeline to lower the cost of living in America, is just acknowledge what intelligent people who follow and cover Trump MAGA already know. They're not about the so-called average man in America. They're about themselves. They play to average Americans in order to gain and hold onto power. But they don't actually do anything positive for them.

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