Biden's pitch is an implicit but devastating punch at Trump
Perhaps we shouldn’t make too much of President Trump’s verbal miscue during his 54-minute rant in the Rose Garden on Tuesday charging that former vice president Joe Biden’s platform had “gone so far right” when the president clearly intended to say “so far left.”
After all, Trump was unambiguous in claiming that “Joe Biden’s entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party.” The late Joseph R. McCarthy might be somewhere asking himself: Why didn’t I think of something that demagogic?
But Trump’s directional confusion was revealing nonetheless, both about the trouble Trump has turning Biden into something he’s not, and about the president’s rambling and vicious incoherence.
The display on Tuesday simultaneously violated all norms about presidents eschewing the rankest form of politicking from the White House and shredded all rules for speaking comprehensible English. Trump has supported English-only policies. Maybe we should apply them to presidents who claim to be using that language.
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