Trump’s convention spirals as aides give up and crowd leaves

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Coming up today, Republicans created an entire midterm convention around Donald Trump. And somehow things were even weirder than I expected. And I expected them to be pretty damn weird. Trump's own advisors are also reaching the point where they don't even bother trying to change his mind about anything anymore. They're just letting him do whatever he's going to do and damage himself. JD Vance went on Fox News and was forced to explain Donald Trump's new promise of five thousand dollar checks for everybody if Republicans keep the House and the Senate, which, by the way, was part of Donald Trump's nearly two hour speech where he top talked about beating meat, beating meat. He insisted the arena was packed, even though cameras prove otherwise. And he gave Ken Paxton an endorsement that actually sounded more like an attack ad. And then when Tim Scott took the stage, he had what I can only describe as a Trump seizure and Ted Cruz rates Trump's economy an A, which made the View audience gasp in horror. We have all of it today. Plus, the new promise that gas will be back below two bucks a gallon again as soon as the Iran war is over, probably after the election.

Trump has aides at the White House who are giving up Axios is reporting that top White House officials and elected Republicans are privately saying they've stopped trying to persuade Donald Trump about anything to do something, not to do something, to say something, not to say something. And that's a pretty serious change from what we saw during Donald Trump's first administration. You might remember that back then there was almost an entire genre of reporting about people who were around Trump. They were trying to manage him. They were trying to influence him, trying to change his views. And an adviser might try to talk him into doing something or out of doing something. Somebody would convince him, hey, wait on this or move more quickly on this other thing. Officials would say, oh, you know, this isn't legally possible or that's not politically practical, or it'll create some other problem. And sometimes Trump would listen and sometimes he wouldn't. But the new reporting from Axios is that people around Trump now are behaving completely differently. They've reached a totally different conclusion, which is it's not even worth trying. One longtime adviser used the phrase, why bother to kind of summarize the perspective of the people around Donald Trump? And the reasoning is very simple. And I think we all know it.

Of course, Trump is the president. Trump is going to do what Trump is going to do.

But the people around him don't believe that arguing with him accomplishes anything. And in fact, it puts them at risk of Donald Trump going, it doesn't really sound like you're being loyal to me. I think it's time for you to go. Axios also reports that some Republicans don't have any confidence that Trump's political instincts are still what they once were. And in fact, I mean, I think that's an interesting 180 If you think back to Donald Trump's first term, there was surprise and sort of fear even then. Trepidation, we might say, when Donald Trump had one of his wacky ideas. But then he would execute it. And sometimes, at least by Republican standards, like Democrats would be aghast. But by Republican standards, it turned out Trump's instincts weren't terrible. Like he kind of did seem to understand his base, even if he didn't give a damn about him.