Did Donald Trump Actually Admit He Was Wrong?

Donald Trump first announced he was running for President on June 16, 2015. Until yesterday, this was the most important political statement he ever made. But he may have topped that moment on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, when he admitted for the very first time that what he previously said was not what he meant to say.

In other words, Donald Trump actually issued a retraction of a statement and didn’t even try to blame the Fake News or anyone else for having said something that he either shouldn’t or didn’t say.

The statement in question was made in response to what he said two days earlier when he told an interviewer on CNBC that his plan to address the possible insolvency of entitlements would include making cuts to social security, along with cleaning up waste and fraud.

The rule has always been that if you want to commit political suicide, wait until you’re in the middle of a campaign and then say a sentence which contains two words: ‘entitlements’ and ‘cuts.’

Unfortunately, Trump stuck those two words in the same sentence which came out sounding like this: “So first if all, there is a lot you can do in terms od entitlements in terms of cutting….”

Okay, so he didn’t specifically mention social security. He saved that one for the next sentence. But when any…