Imagine trying to argue that Leslie Stahl is some sort of biased partisan. That was a fair interview. It wasn’t even a particularly tough interview. Every question she asked was something he could have (and should have) been able to answer.
He was stumped by a question about his top domestic policy goal for a second term! He had no clue, just started babbling about “we had the greatest economy in history!” That wasn’t true, but it’s also not a goal!
His website has zero second term policy goals listed on it. Zero. None. Nada. One thing Woodward kept coming back to in his recent book was the fact that Trump didn’t seem to have any firm goals outside of being in power.
His accomplishments aren’t really accomplishments. He talks about how many judges *he* got through. He talks about great *his* economy was.

With judges he just picks names from a list that someone else gives him. McConnell does the rest.
With the economy, no action of his actually improved it. If you look at various ways fo measure the economy, things pretty much kept going in the same direction as they were going when he took office. Unemployment was going down. It kept going down at roughly that rate, etc.
He’s used to his interviews being the sycophantic Mari Bartiromo kind where the questions are all things like “The press has been so unfair to you. How have you accomplished so much with everyone out to get you?”
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