{UAH} Have Trump’s erratic performances in his coronavirus daily press briefings caused you to change your opinion of him, and to what degree?

Micheal Cataldo

Actually, they have changed my opinion of him.

My feelings about Trump started out as that he was boring. I never watched "The Apprentice" and rarely saw him on television unless it was an interview of one type or another.

During the election, I dismissed him as a wealthy playboy who was too old to be chasing the women he continued to chase. I figured one of the Republicans would beat him and he'd go back to obscurity.

Then… he won the Presidency. I didn't care why or how, it was just a surprise. It would get its five minutes of news and go away until 2019 when the next wave of garbage began.

But it didn't go away.

Every day it was something different, something weird, or dumb, or insulting to the country. It was so outside the bounds of normal politics as to render all politics before it as the squabbling of…as an author about Lincoln put it, "A Team of Rivals."

Then it got just weird. He would make the most transparent lies and people would react like he was espousing gospel. He would deny live video feeds of himself saying things.Then he started attacking the military. It was subtle insults to a Gold Star Mother, lying about injuries soldiers sustained and then claiming he was helping veterans while actually under-funding the VA and putting idiots and drug addicts in charge. Then he started undermining the leadership of the military and the State Governors and Unions.

One night, after one of his broadcasts, some televangelist was being interviewed about people hating him because he wanted a third private jet and that's when it hit me - Trump was a televangelist. He could convince people that he was helping them while robbing them blind. It was brilliant… in a sick and twisted sort of way.

But there was a problem and you've guessed it. He couldn't talk or think on his feet. When he got challenged, he turned into a ten year old having a tantrum. Some was deliberate but as the Covid-19 crisis escalated, he started getting more and more stressed because his lies were all unraveling.

I didn't want to watch him because the lies were so jarring, the comments so contradictory and the wild proclamations so over the top. After the "my pillow" briefing, I shut him off. If something particularly crazy came up, I would watch it on Fox because they always carried it. But, even on Fox over the past few months, you could see he had stretched even their infamous BTL (B**** Tolerance Level).

So, yes, I've changed my opinion. Like Alex Jones, I think Trump has reached his saturation point with his base and the numbers are starting to reflect it. I still can't force myself to watch from start to finish, but his followers can.

My only hope now is that his followers, like the Archie Bunkers who kept supporting Nixon up to the day he flew off the White House Lawn, will find that breaking point.

Edited: Thanks Louie Torres and Bilal Hussain for cleaning it up to make it look better your help is much appreciated.

Allan

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