10:14 PM: The no clapping thing is really starting to get to him.
10:11 PM: There’s a weird fuzziness on the front of Trump’s pompadour. I’m wondering if there’s something fuzzy sprayed on it. Because something is different. Don’t pretend you don’t see this. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
10:08 PM: This is really given me flashbacks of my earlier life as an avid Wally George watcher/ironic fan.
10: 05 PM: The through-line generally is clear: very, very low energy until he got to tariff and graphic descriptions of murders by undocumented immigrants.
10:02 PM: The whole “angel mom”, “angel families” thing is simply the most disgusting and malevolent thing imaginable. Imagine any other group singled out like this. Hideous gutter politics from white nationalist degenerates.
9:56 PM: By my read, Trump’s energy level has risen a bit approaching the second hour.
9:49 PM: Trump seems to be saying he has an Obamacare replacement? But of course he doesn’t. We had a debate here at TPM about what what he was saying about Tariffs. He seemed to be saying that the foreign countries are so happy they’ll just voluntarily keep paying the tariffs. The whole logic of it seems to be that the tariffs will continue. In any case one of my colleagues that he was talking about the “deals”, i.e., this or that country agreeing to invest a trillion or a gazillion dollars in the US. I’m not really clear.
9:43 PM: Tariffs seemed to be the first time he really got his energy back. But it seems to be subsiding. Is he saying that
9:28 PM: I get the sense that they knew this was turning out to be a total snoozer so they’re just going to do the rest about the hockey team.
9:16 PM: Still seems super low energy. (Don’t try to do this kind of commentary at home.)
9:13 PM: Honestly this seems a bit low energy. Not just the content but the energy in the room? Curious what people in the hall are seeing. But he also has that kind of sullen low energy thing.
