Trump’s border wall address was so lame, was it in fact a distraction? | Jill Abramson

So stale was the president in talking about his faux immigration crisis, you have to wonder what else was on his mind

Donald Trump is a master at manufacturing faux crises. He is not a master at faking humanitarian concern.

He thought that speaking from the Oval Office and sitting behind the Resolute desk would help him invoke a grave national crisis. It’s the setting that JFK used to tell the country about life-threatening Cuban missiles. It’s where George W Bush tried to calm the country after 9/11.

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