If you’ve ever wondered what it would take to get a liberal New York Times columnist to praise Donald Trump for being “funny,” and for having stage presence, and a kind of natural charisma, and an easy ability to “persuade an audience that he’s just kidding — that he doesn’t actually mean it”… well, all it took was Florida governor Ron DeSantis to get the Times’ Jamelle Bouie looking fondly at the good old days, when everyone would just sit back, laugh, and bask in Trump’s natural charisma. Boy, we all had some hearty laughs together during the Trump presidency. Good times, good times.
Bouie also yearns for the simpler times of Trump’s “soft edges.”
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Ron DeSantis “may be a more competent Trump in terms of his ability to use the levers of state to amass power, but he’s also meaner and more rigid, without the soft edges and eccentricity of the actual Donald Trump,” writes @jbouie. https://t.co/iG8mv63mOW
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 17, 2022
Surely, if you asked a typical New York Times reader what they remembered of Trump’s presidency, good humor and “soft edges” would be a common answer, right?