Sam Stein & Sarah Longwell: Donald Trump Goes Off The Rails in WILD New Interview

"Sarah Longwell and Sam Stein share their takes on Donald Trump's wild interview with Time Magazine, which exposes his incoherent plans for immigration, tariffs, and the economy." 

Source:The Bulwark with Sam Stein & Sarah Longwell. They're not talking about Donald Trump's latest sandwich.

From The Bulwark

The TIME interview with the President of the United States: 

"President Donald Trump emerges through a pair of handsome wooden doors on the third floor of the White House. On his way down the wide, carpeted staircase, he passes portraits of his predecessors. Nixon is opposite the landing outside the residence. Two flights down, he has swapped the placement of Clinton and Lincoln, moving a massive painting of the latter into the main entrance hall of the mansion. “Lincoln is Lincoln, in all fairness,” he explains. “And I gave Clinton a good space.” But it’s the portrait around the corner that Trump wants to show off. 

It’s a giant painting of a photograph—that photograph, the famous image of Trump, his fist raised, blood trickling down his face, after the attempt on his life last July at a rally in Butler, Pa. It hangs across the foyer from a portrait of Obama, in tacit competition. When they bring tours in, everyone wants to look at this one, Trump says, gesturing to the painting of himself, in technicolor defiance. “100 to 1, they prefer that,” he says. “It’s incredible.”

Making his way out to the Rose Garden, he walks up the inclined colonnade toward the Oval Office, describing the other alterations to the decor, both inside and out. His imprint on his workspace is apparent. The molding and mantels have gold accents now, and he has filled the walls with portraits of other presidents in gilded frames. He has hung an early copy of the Declaration of Independence behind a set of blue curtains. The box with a red button that allows Trump to summon Diet Cokes is back in its place on the Resolute desk, behind which stands a new battalion of flags, including one for the U.S. Space Force, the military branch he established. A map of the “Gulf of America,” as Trump has rechristened the Gulf of Mexico, was propped on a stand nearby... 

You can read the rest of yourself at TIME Magazine

When Donald Trump talks to anyone other than FOX News, Newsmax, some far-right, MAGA podcaster, or someone like that, he's forced to listen to real questions. Instead looking at people standing in line to kiss his ass, or people in front of him paying him to kiss his ass. 

So when the President had to deal with real journalists, he's not getting questions like: 

"Mr President, why do you love America so much?" 

Mr. President, you still think America can be saved from the Un-Americans?" 

Mr, President, what made you so successful as a businessman and reality TV star?" 

He instead gets real questions like: 

"Mr. President, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against you in the deportation case, saying you have to give these immigrants due-process. Are you currently enforcing that order?" 

Or: 

"Mr. President, you were elected President in 2024 to bring down the cost of living in America. But during your first 90 plus days as President, groceries and the cost of living in general has gotten more expensive. What's your plan to make life more affordable for average Americans?' 

And the problem is, Donald Trump doesn't have any good answers to any of these questions. The Stock Market has lost 10 trillion on his watch. Imagine that happening to either President Biden or President Kamala Harris, if she were President right now. Thanks to the President's trade war. But also prices are going up, people are stocking up right now because they're worried that basic necessities will be too expensive for them a few months from now, which is hurting the supply chain in the economy. 

So President Trump just goes back to the only play that he knows by heart and just talks about how great he thinks he is and how great he thinks America will be, with nothing to show why he believes those things, because he has nothing to show anyone right now. 

Right now Donald Trump is like the incompetent lawyer in the courtroom, who has no case, whose client is obviously guilty and he's simply just trying to buy time, before his client is either convicted, or he gets sanctioned by the judge. 

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