Susan Glasser

One was...

Is he going to make his case to the American people as Caroline Leavitt told us he would about how he is going to handle the affordability crisis?

Well, I defy you to find a coherent case to the American people there.

And then the other thing for my fellow foreign policy wonks was, is he going to make the case about why we need to go to war with Iran?

Basically, I learned from that speech that we may or we may not go to war with Iran in order to obliterate the nuclear weapons program that, by the way, we already obliterated.

Yeah.

So I think I was judging it as a speech.

I was judging him as a president if I had just let go of those preconceptions and thought of it in terms of like, how would I write about the Oscars or the Grammys or that, you know, anyone else with a particularly long winded host with somewhat noxious political views, I probably...

I want to turn the question around on you since you, I think, understand the psychology of your former fellow Republicans better than I do.

But, you know, it strikes me there were two speeches in there in addition to the Bob Hope-ism.

There was, you know, the Donald Trump huckster pitchman speech at the beginning and the end.

Everything is fantastic.

fricking awesome.

You know, America was brilliant to have elected me as its president.

And as a result of that, everything is actually going great.

There's no such thing as an affordability crisis.

So there was the cheery speech and then embedded within it was this other speech that you're mentioning.

And that was the Democrats and illegal aliens are destroying everything that we hold near and dear speech.

And I do think this part of the speech gets closer to addressing the

Trump and the White House's political goals for this midterm election, which is they have a turnout problem.