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In their defense, it was very boring. The white house hyped it up like he was going to drop a bomb, but it was just the same speech he always does
I tried to listen, I got through about 8 seconds, skipped ahead like 4 times and shut it off.
Who wants to listen to senile rambling about how "good" everything is?
It was the'episode 9'of presidential speeches.
Yep, the most fundamental grift for Trump is converting the credibility of the office of the presidency or the country in general into credibility for his money or power scheme of the moment. That's what this primetime address was.
In the future, primetime presidential addresses (under Trump but also after) will have less credibility, because that broadcast spent some portion of it.
And if course his goal is to spend all the credibility of the presidency and US on himself before he dies, because that's just good narcissist math.
That's just it.
No substance, no air time. It eliminates having to fact check afterwards as well. Double win!
I was honestly expecting an announcement along the lines of "midterm elections are canceled" or "very restrictive measures will be taken to ensure election integrity". I got really stoned in preparation