When Trump was born, Harry S. Truman was president and Perry Como topped the year’s pop charts.
Trump has calculated that it’s better to be mocked as a fraud than to be patronized as a fogy.
DeSantis is implying that Trump isn’t as combative as he once was, and that he, DeSantis, can be.
Trump isn’t as freewheeling, but the plain fact is that he hasn’t lost any of the edge of his 2016 campaign.
Finally, detecting a decline in Trump may be challenging because his language and reasoning skills started at such a low place.
Asked at a recent event whether Trump was losing it, former Attorney General Bill Barr said, “His verbal skills are limited.”
But what Barr didn’t say was that Trump was slipping, perhaps because this is who Trump has long been. »