It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address.
But this was not an address by a self-confident man dishing out Christmas presents to the nation. It smacked of desperation from one who can feel the December windchill of opinion polls – a Reuters/ Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed just 33% of US adults approve of how Trump has handled the economy – dissent in his own Republican ranks and the Jeffrey Epstein files looming on Friday.
The speech also revealed Trump’s need for a reliable foil. Over the years Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been useful nemeses for a man and movement defined less by what they are for than what they are against.
She’s done very well for herself. National name, life time pension, and plenty of other benefits we can only guess at.
Don’t mistake morality for intelligence.
I found out that her pension is only $8k a year and she can’t start collecting it for another decade. When she resigned, everyone was talking about how it was planned since she’d now receive a pension, but the payment amount is peanuts.
On the QAA podcast, they outlined that they think she quit because Trump was going to fund her primary challenger in 2026, Republicans are going to lose big in 2026, and if she won her seat, that’d put her in a position where she has to defend Trump as the minority party just after he paid millions of dollars trying to have her defeated.