I guess I was wrong about the topic of Trump’s press conference. There was no topic or focus, just a bunch of random gripes. I had it on in the background because apparently I hate happiness. He makes so many ludicrous statements, it’s almost funny but also tragic and a waste of time. 🇺🇸

@manton but... is our journalists learning?

@pratik CNN covered it live for about an hour before they cut away to fact check, so… no.

@manton The reason for the press conference was attention. He's starved for it. Harris/Walz has sucked all the air out of the room.

Also, Walz is so perfect all they have to use personally against him is blatant easily fact-checkable lies that barely catch the sunlight.

@patrickrhone @manton I saw parts of it. He was unhinged, even for him.

@johnbrayton @patrickrhone Totally. I wish I hadn't given it any attention. Even with my rock-bottom low expectations, I was somehow expecting the start of a messaging strategy from those guys, but no.

@manton I can tell you from informed knowledge that part of the issue is they have no strategy and their internals are abysmal and they fired one of the outside firms that they were using because they didn’t like the news being delivered.

@patrickrhone Yes, the narcissism is real, and his outrageous statements aren't getting him the attention, whether positive or negative, that he got last time. Combine that with the increasing grip of the judiciary system and fading hope of pardoning power, I believe he is going to be increasingly volatile.

@manton they haven’t had messaging strategy for 10 years - why were you expecting that to change ❓

@chrisaldrich I don't know about the complaining part, because I was never there, but that is how the father-in-law of one of my siblings used to spend his morning.