Bulwark editor Jonathan Last and former Republican and Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell say Republicans are wheeling President Donald Trump out early to visit Pennsylvania and other states to sell his economic policy because time is running out on his waning charisma.
“We need to talk about Trump’s age … and what it means for the next three years,” said Last, pointing out that the president’s hair is “really thinning” and nobody’s yet figured out how to get bronzer on his “albino white scalp.”
Longwell said Trump’s rapidly declining health and lucidity is going deal a blow to the Republican Party as the nation gears up for the midterms amid Trump’s unpopular economic policies.
“As he goes into these states, he starts talking like a crazy person … about the affordability scam and pencils. … He doesn’t even sound that good,” said Longwell. “The idea of putting him on the trail — the reason they’re doing it now is because he’s declining. They’re trying to get him out there early … and voters are so done with these old candidates.”
“The only way Trump got away with his age was because he was not as old as Biden,” Longwell continued. “You could tell they were roughly the same age … but Trump had big lunatic energy still. That is falling. That is going away. Now he’s doing this thing where he’s waking up in the middle of the night and ripping off 150 [Truth Social] posts at 3 am and falling asleep while Marco Rubio is talking. And it’s happening a lot where he’s napping in the day.”
Last said what will be obvious to voters over the next three years is that the U.S. “won’t really have a president, just a ceremonial head of state with “Stephen Miller trying to get what he can, Marco Rubio trying to get what he can and JD Vance trying to put himself in a position to hold everything together while also trying to figure out if there’ s a way to knife the old man.”
Longwell said Democrats should spend the next year not only thrashing Trump on his economy but also on his declining health.
“Hammering him on his age and the fact that he’s not in control matter a great deal because people hate Stephen Miller,” Longwell said. “They’re mid on JD Vance. There is nobody in the Republican ecosystem that can hold together this wild coalition other than Trump. The red hat is the biggest tent there is.”
See the video with a Bulwark account at this link.