You’re Just Looking At The Wrong Place
Folks on the left have consistently made fun of Donald Trump for his bragging and tendency to exaggerate…everything is huge, no one has ever seen anything like it before—good or bad, it’s the largest and best. Quite often, the claims are true, or certainly true enough. But that’s part of the Trump brand…everything is promoted as the best, and that image has worked quite well for him in business and politics.
They’ve been sort of quiet about poking at Trump, though, as Joe Biden’s tall tales and denials multiply.
We’ve gotten used to him claiming his son died in combat, when in reality it was from unrelated cancer after returning from deployment. And that his uncle was eaten by cannibals during World War II.
But it’s the detachment from reality of today that is more concerning.
When confronted with polling data that shows him trailing Trump, Biden typical reaction is to snap at reporters, saying things like, “You’re not looking at the right polls.” And it’s not limited to the president; the first lady has a tendency to dismiss bad news in the same confrontational way, as well.
We’ve come to expect it from the press secretary’s podium, where you have to look hard to find facts or truth in those pre-scripted responses.
But for the president to react so sharply suggests he himself knows it’s not good news and he thinks he’s showing the ability to fight back with his responses and blaming the messenger…or as we suggested in the past, he’s being sheltered from bad news so he naturally would loudly take exception to something that is contrary to what he’s been told…or who knows why.
It’s the stridency of the tone, the anger in the response…it seems to go beyond normal defensiveness. And that is concerning for governing our nation now, politics and elections aside.
