Donald Trump has been “doing the same schtick since 2015,” Chris Hayes said Tuesday, and is “very obviously deteriorating in terms of his capacity.” This was evidenced by Trump’s “racist lie” that Vice President Harris “only became a Black person recently,” something that can only be “the product of a brain that’s been scrambled like eggs,” the MSNBC host insisted.
“Donald Trump is the same guy he’s always been. And yet Republicans, I mean, God bless them, still think he’s capable of being someone else entirely,” Hayes added.
As someone who has covered Trump extensively “for a little bit,” he continued, “I have personally covered hundreds of ‘new tone for Donald Trump’ news cycles over all these years.”
Most recently, we’ve heard it after he survived a genuinely terrifying close call assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and in the lead up to the RNC, he changed, he’d mellowed — he was all about unity. As one convention delegate told reporters, ‘The real estate salesman, I think is a different person.’”
The trouble is, Hayes said, we have collectively “been hearing this stuff for a better part of a decade.” Despite conservative protestations to the otherwise, “We’ve been doing this for seven years. At this point, it’s like Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner. There’s not a lot of narrative suspense about what’s going to happen,” he explained.
“Yet if you listen to what Republican insiders are still telling reporters, they want Trump to do a pivot. They want him to be more disciplined. They want him to be more presidential. This time, this time, it will be for real,” Hayes said before cutting to clips of conservative reporters essentially calling on Trump to behave as anyone other than himself.
The problem, of course, is Trump himself. “[I’ll] Say this for the guy, he has more self-awareness, more awareness about himself than a shocking number of people in Republican politics,” Hays admitted. “He won’t change. You know who else understands this? The voters do.”
Hayes also spoke to Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter and co-host of “Pod Saves America,” and Jamelle Bouie, columnist for the New York Times. “It’s really bizarre to see people just consistently refuse to take Trump as he presents himself,” Bouie agreed. “I honestly find it so troubling almost that these ostensibly intelligent people would be surprised by the fact that Trump doesn’t have any secret plan to get positive.”
“It’s almost as if they are doing the exact same thing that I think a lot of voters did in 2016, which is assume that because Trump is rich and because he’s on television and because people listen to him, therefore there must be something else there when there just really isn’t,” he added.
You can watch the segment from Chris Hayes in the video above.
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