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The Biden Team Still Doesn’t Understand Donald Trump.
I don’t know why an experienced campaign team like the team working for Joe Biden keeps getting it wrong when it comes to understanding what Trump’s all about, but they do. And if the Biden campaign continues to misread and misunderstand Trump’s appeal, their guy is going to wind up back in Delaware next year and we can all somehow survive another four more years of Trump.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.
Trump does an interview with one of his social media toadies, Logan Paul, and jokes about having one of his speeches written for him by AI.
He says, “I had a speech rewritten by AI out there. One of the top people, he said: ‘Oh, you’re going to make a speech? He goes ‘click, click, click’ and like 15 seconds later he shows me my speech that’s written so beautifully.”
Trump then shows the speech to one of his speechwriters and says, “You’re fired,’ which of course is right out of his old The Apprentice TV show.
What does the Biden campaign do in response to this brief moment of Trumpian humor? They run an ad on social media which says that “Trump claims his speeches are written by AI.”
What’s so bad about what Trump said? Are we supposed to vote for Joe over Trump because Joe’s speeches are all written by a live…