Susan Glasser

Sure.

I have been puzzling over this, like trying to actually understand, as you said, what is it that she heard here that we didn't?

But

I realized, go back, parse that sentence more carefully.

Maybe she means it was the greatest Trump speech she's ever heard, but maybe she's damning it with faint praise.

Maybe she means that she really hated every other Trump speech.

Right?

She didn't say it was a great speech.

She said it was the best one of these that Trump has ever given.

Was that the Rush Limbaugh one?

Or no, that was 2020.

This was not a trick.

But I also think your point is important here about...

He could have ended it after the gold medal Olympic team moment.

You know, it was already sort of incoherent or whatever, but it was actually a very Trumpy, like, everything is freaking great, like, yay, and like a lot of really bad cliches about America that Jeff GPT could have written better.

So if he had ended it there, right, it would have been sort of like a bizarre, newsless moment.

classic Trump speech, it would not have been a national ordeal, you know, to go on and on and on.

And they may also not understand when they have the somewhat broader audience than they're used to, because Trump at this point is kind of a narrow caster.

I heard from a lot of folks now, again, not Trump fans, but, you know, people who are not used to listening to the full on Trump, which is

Most of America, I think, at this point, but certainly, definitely, you know, the non-MAGA part of America at this point.