Among the critics who published on the X Sunday after My Fox News Show was the one who made a fight that surprised me.
Don’t pay attention to what President Trump says, this person wrote. Pay attention to what he does.
Now that’s a new idea. What the president of the United States says is unimportant and should be neglected. I doubt that person applied the same standard President Joe Biden.
Yet, there is an interesting thought exercise here. Trump says a lot of things, especially since he talks to reporters almost every day. Not everything rises to the same level of severity. I say this as someone who has interviewed him many times over the years, including our sitting two weeks before the election.
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Sometimes the president says things just to cut the press. Sometimes he says things that are not true or are exaggerated or taken out of context.
But more often he says that the quiet part is loud, signaling what he plans to do or insult those he disagrees with, the kind of things that journalists had to attribute to unnamed helpers, and he does so in front of the cameras.
There would be Ukraine at the top of the list. Donald Trump is a smart guy, he knows that Russia attacked her much smaller sovereign neighbor with the aim of erasing from the map and putting under Moscow control. But he decided to blame Ukraine to launch war and insult Volodomyra Zelenskyy as a dictator when everyone knows that the label perfectly describes Vladimir Putin.
President Trump is known for his rhetoric that is simply on all sides – and some of what he says carries a far more weight than the others. It’s just a matter of determining what is. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
The most corutative interpretation is that Trump believes that the only way to end the war through the Alliance with the Putin for a settlement that could then be sold to Ukraine. (The United States voted with Russia yesterday against the UN resolution condemning invasion.)
Of course, Trump matched Dutina well with Putin. During their summit in Helsinki in the first term, the President accepted Putin’s denial that the Kremlin had entered the Democratic E -Poruke, despite the evidence that collected his own intelligence agency.
Trump reiterated again and again that Zelenskyy conveyed a responsibility for the war that had just marked his three -year anniversary. Is that aimed at the American public or Moscow or Kyiv (under pressure in Ukraine)?
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Journalists are constantly asking Trump’s assistants and Republican supporters if they agree with the approach to the president’s guilty-grill, and many have simply tried to refuse the question.
In my interview “Media Buzz” with Jason Miller, longtime Trump’s confidence and older advisor of the Trump transition team, skillfully avoided opposition to the President.
“What President Trump did,” he said, “did he force the foreign to the table to actually stop the murder and make sense of the peace agreement. In the last few years. and more death. ”
When I tried again, Miller told his boss that “his legacy would really be like a peacemaker.”
I came back for the third time, quoting the conservative radio -Mark Levin’s home: “This is sick. Ukraine didn’t start this war. What were they supposed to do? Try up and play dead? They just try to survive.”
And I asked, “Why does President Trump accuse Zelenskyy for the beginning of the war?”
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“Well, Zelenskyy has a big guilt. I think that could go to this. But again, you want to look in the past, I want to look into the future, which we do to save our lives.”
Jason Miller did his job. A similar scenario took place in other Sunday shows.
On “Fox News Sunday”, my colleague Shannon Bream asked Defense Minister Pete Hegsetha if it was fair to say that Russia was unchanged when she attacked Ukraine. He replied that “it is fair to say that this is a very complicated situation.”
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Emphasizing that Trump wants to end the war, Hegsetth said, “” You’re fine, you’re bad; You are a dictator, you are not a dictator; You attacked, you didn’t. “It’s not useful.
The second part of my Sunday interview also illuminated Trump’s use of language.
President told reporters: “I think we should govern Columbia DistrictDo this absolutely flawlessly beautiful. ”
The Minister of Defense Peta Hegsetth is about whether it is fair to say that Russia is unchanged when attacked by Ukraine, saying Fox News’ Shannon Bream that this is a “complicated situation”. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The district has enjoyed the home rule for 50 years, although the Congress retains the power to undo its laws. Capital, such as most cities, falls into crime, poverty and other urban diseases.
I asked Point Blank: Is the president ready to end my home rule in DC?
Miller said that Mayor Muriel Bowser was doing a good job to a great extent, adding: “I think part of the reasons is why President Trump won because he said he would clean our cities to make them safe. Of course he would put pressure on the Columbia district. “
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Thus, Trump’s words in this case had a different meaning, as a warning signal to the district.
Oh, I also wondered why Trump continued to cite Canada as 51. The state when it would not happen.
“The president has a little fun with that. But he also creates very serious points.”
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My internet dertctor was wrong. It is important to pay attention to the president’s words, especially for the media, which tend to exaggerate his language. The challenge is deciphering when he is dead serious, when he sends signals and when only a troll.