I watched the press conference, and it had me worried. The Won was very smooth, the seasoned politician that did not get his ruff up as lesser leaders would. He was incredibly glib and he spoke with picturesquely, as when he said that he would love to have a Kentucky bourbon with McConnell, although he did not know if McConnell would agree; which intimates he is more mature and reasonable than others.
He was so slick outlining his achievements as the supposed high employment and his willingness to make sure that kids were not burdened with college debt. He even took a shot at the trivial of the Keystone pipeline, saying that his counterparts envied our 100 year reserve of natural gas and that gas was at an all time low.
He tried to appear human when he said about being asked to stay away from vulnerable dems, saying he liked campaigning, liked meeting ordinary people, shaking hands and getting hugs, but the candidates had their own campaigns to run and so he understood.
When he got rankled, was when he was interrupted in his soliloquies and when he was asked the same question, e.g. immigration, always referring back to his original statements.
He could not handle being challenged. The implant in his head responsible for his smooth address, would sputter,lash out and make the cutting remarks that we all assumed are what he thought and felt.
Thank you for that reasonable summation of what happened. One of these days, some rat pol (perhaps even The Won Himself) is going to actually lose it, and I’m going to miss seeing it, because I’ve heard “wolf” one time too many in someone’s dramatisation of what really happened.
He’s only against keystone because the Payne-Dunham family money that initiated the family trust is from wells his great grandfather wrote the initial leases/mineral rights for in Kansas Check out the schedule E of his tax form when he posts them on the WH site ( he’s looking out for his own interest)