“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
September 20, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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Kaitlen Collins. Kristen Welker.
Outside of having silly, girly names that are spelled oddly, the two reporters are interchangeable when it comes to Trump.
On Sunday Welker took over the reins at NBC’s Meet the Press from a failing Chuck Todd, but the NBC message as far as Trump goes is the same.
Kristen Welker interviewed Trump on Sunday, and just as he did at the CNN Town Hall in May, he came out smelling like a rose.
Welker talked over Trump. Reprimanded him when he insisted on answering one of her questions. And, like Collins before her, Welker couldn’t cut the mustard.
Trump talked about issues: Abortion, the border, energy prices, inflation. Joe. Hunter. Etc. Much, much more etc.
He’s a guy who talks about what people want to hear. People like that. And his plain-spoken words were music to one’s ears.
Welken did her damndest to interrupt and naysay. And when Trump said something of merit, she quickly intercepted, repeating repeatedly, “Mr. President! Let’s stay on track.”
“Electric cars are too expensive and they don’t go far enough,” Trump said.
True.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm learned that firsthand, when she made a four-day trip from North Carolina to Tennessee promoting green energy, and had to travel with a caravan of electric and non-electric cars.
Just in case.
True to form as an undisclosed not-so-long-ago holder of stock in Ford, Granholm selfishly had a nonelectric vehicle reserve a space at a charging station while she was still en route. While others waited in line.
Happily, someone called the cops.
As for the United Auto Workers Union, Trump predicted workers will lose their jobs.
“All of these cars are going to be made in China,” he said.
As for truckers, A heavy truck "goes 2,000 miles. An electric truck goes 200. What are they supposed to do? Stop every 200 miles and recharge?”
Welker’s response? “Let’s move on.”
“Bank of America and Chase discriminate against conservatives,” Trump said.
Her response, “You don’t know that, Mr. President.”
Welker was displeased when Trump said Biden emptied the Strategic Oil Reserve, he said, to drive down gas prices, to win votes.
“There are a lot of factors, including global factors that affect that,” Welker blustered.
It was frustrating to hear. It had to have been frustrating to be Trump. But, like the leader he is, he didn’t break a sweat.
He did ask rather sadly, “Why do people stick up for him when he makes bad decisions, or say it’s okay that he has open borders?”
"Why do you do that?" he asked.
The mainstream media dismissed the interview as just another Trump lie-fest, but we know they wouldn’t know a lie if it bit them in the rump.
Much to NBC’s dismay, Trump hit it out of the park.
The interview was supposed to cut him down to size.
Welker tried.
She started off by noting his four indictments.
She told him there was no evidence the 2020 Election had been rigged.
And stated that the Hunter Biden indictment blew President Trump’s claim of a two-tier legal system out of the water.
There was more. Much more.
But it was when she asked him if he worries about prison at night that she lost.
“I don’t even think about it,” he said. “I’m built a little differently, I guess.
“When you say, do I lose sleep? I sleep,” he said. “I sleep because I truly feel that in the end we’re going to win.”
That’s Trump. He gives hope. And he never allows himself the luxury of a negative thought.
Because, as he has said, they’re coming for us and he has signed up to get in their way.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.