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Trump’s Become Just Another Same Old, Same Old.
I have been saying all along that if Trump (a.k.a. Orange Shithead or OS) decides to run again in 2024, he’s no longer the incumbent President like he was in 2020, now he’s just another candidate. And he’s not only just another candidate, but he’s a candidate who isn’t saying anything all that different or new the way he was saying things in 2016.
Because I’m a gun guy, I know a lot more Trump supporters than most of the readers of this column, and what I heard back in 2016 during the campaign was that people liked him because ‘he tells it like it is.’
I heard this bout OS telling it ‘like it is’ particularly after he made that ‘shithole countries’ comment during a White House event in 2018. And every Trump supporter I talked to over the next several days said, “We finally have a President who says out loud what we all think to ourselves.” Or words to that effect.
Well, guess what? Trump is still saying what he wants to say and what he thinks everyone wants to hear. But the problem is that every other politician is now talking the same way, so using some profanity or making fun of someone’s name is no longer any big deal.
After the Select Committee ran a video of McConnell decrying the January 6th riot and blaming Trump for not telling the crowd to leave the Capitol right at the start…