Last night, the president posted on Truth Social more than two dozen times.That last one seems to be Trump's social media team mocking every Democrat who declares, huffily, that all non-monetary subjects are "distractions" from what's really important to American voters. See, for instance, Nancy Pelosi four days ago:
He posted phony mugshots of former President Barack Obama and an AI-generated video of the former president being arrested in the Oval Office before donning an orange jumpsuit in prison.
He posted about the Washington Commanders, demanding they change their name back to the Redskins and suggesting that he could blow up the RFK Stadium deal if they don’t....
He posted a three-minute, captionless video with clips of a bikini-clad woman picking up and tossing a snake; a man somersaulting around a dowel down a stairway; a red Lamborghini careening beneath a truck, Clark Griswold style; a man jumping a fence and coming face to face with a speeding train; a woman break dancing; an optical illusion of a conference room; a billiards trick; a man hacking away at some rock formation; a dirtbiker stunting on a trail; a jet ski....
It's as if Trump's media people are saying, "Distraction? I got your distraction right here."
When this Pelosi clip appeared, a number of people from outside the Democratic establishment made an obvious point:
And today Playbook reports:
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) tells Playbook he’s now advising Democrats to “hammer the issue” ahead of the midterms by tying it to a broader critique of the administration: “Whose side are you on? Are you voting to protect rich and powerful men, or are you standing with America’s children and the people?”I'm glad Khanna is saying this, but here are the Democrats in a nutshell: The administration announced that it wouldn't be releasing Epstein documents on July 7. It took one Democrat two weeks to link Trump's handling of the Epstein case to his administration's overall pro-elitist bias, and that Democrat still didn't make the connection to "kitchen table issues" explicit, and he's only now urging fellow Democrats to adopt this message. Why not two weeks ago? Why wasn't this the immediate response of dozens of Democrats? Why are they so slow and creaky?
Also note Trump's top "distraction":
It will probably take Democrats two or three weeks to respond to this, but could they consider responding maybe, y'know, now? Barack Obama is popular. Gallup says he's the most popular living president, with a 59%-36% approval rating. YouGov says that 61% of Americans have a positive opinion of him, and only 24% have a negative opinion.
Democrats, right now, could rally around a very popular Democrat. As I told you on Saturday, Trump is trying to target Obama based on the false idea that there was no Russian interference in the 2016 election. Americans distrust Vladimir Putin. Why not defend a popular Democrat and attack an unpopular foreign dictator? Trump might be over his mancrush on Putin, but it's been a joke for years -- even at kitchen tables! -- so why not attack him on this now?
Democrats won't. They'll freeze, like deer in headlights, as usual. Maybe in a few weeks they'll send another trial balloon to Politico Playbook about maybe, possibly, responding a certain way in the future. By that time, Obama might be sitting in a prison cell.
