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Jilly_in_VA

(13,783 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:13 PM Thursday

Trump Spills Real Reason for Manic Address When Cameras Stop [View all]

President Donald Trump was heard explaining why he gave his bizarre national address as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

In seemingly unguarded comments made in front of journalists after the address, the president admitted that it had not even been his choice—but that his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, had made him do it as she plays cleanup amid the fallout from her embarrassingly candid Vanity Fair article.

In Wednesday night’s 18-minute double-speed diatribe, the 79-year-old president fired off mistruth after mistruth about how well his administration is doing and attacked his predecessor, Joe Biden, without having anything new to say.

The White House address was carried live by the major networks, with CBS forced to interrupt the live finale of its reality TV show hit Survivor so viewers could catch the presidential speech.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-forced-to-address-the-nation-to-cover-up-susie-wiles-vanity-fair-disaster/

"Susie made me do it". Sounds like an excuse from "Calvin and Hobbes"

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