Among the critics posted on X Sunday thereafter My Fox News show Was someone who argued that surprised me.
Don’t pay attention to what President Trump says, this person wrote. Watch what he does.
That’s a new idea. What the president of the United States says is unimportant and must be ignored. I doubt that this person applied the same standard President Joe Biden.
And yet there is an interesting thought exercise here. Trump says many things, especially because he talks to journalists 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 sitdown two weeks before the elections.
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Sometimes the president only says things to increase the press. Sometimes he says things that are not true, or exaggerate or have been taken out of context.
But more often he says the silent part aloud, indicates what he is planning to do or to insult those with whom he does not agree, the kind of things that reporters used to have to attribute to public assistants, and he does it for the cameras.
Ukraine would now be at the top of the list. Donald Trump Is a smart guy, he knows that Russia has invaded his much smaller sovereign neighbor with the aim of wiping it off the map and being put under the control of Moscow. But he has chosen to blame Ukraine for starting the war, and to insult Volodomyr Zenskyy as a dictator when everyone knows that label, Vladimir Putin describes perfectly.
President Trump is known for rhetoric that is just everywhere – and part of what he says bears much more weight than the rest. It’s just a matter of determining what is. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
The most charitable interpretation is that Trump believes that the only way to end the war is by an alliance with Putin for a settlement that can then be sold to Ukraine. (The United States voted yesterday with Russia against a UN resolution that sentenced the invasion.)
Of course Trump has been on Putin for Putin for a long time. During their Helsinki top in the first term, the president accepted the denial of Putin that the Kremlin had hacked Democratic Emails, despite the evidence that collects his own intelligence services.
Trump has repeatedly repeated that Zenskyy is responsible for the war that just marked his three -year anniversary. Is this aimed at the American public or to Moscow or Kyiv (to exert pressure on Ukraine)?
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Journalists continue to ask Trump assistants and Republican supporters whether they agree with the president’s debt-umraine approach, and many have just tried to declare the question.
In my interview with “Media Buzz” with Jason Miller, the old Trump confidant and senior adviser to the Trump transition team, he nowadays felt skillfully in contradiction with the president.
“What President Trump did,” he said, “he forced the parties to the table to actually stop the murder and in recent years to come up with a peace agreement. Joe Biden has been completely incompetent there, do nothing but more kill and more kill and more dead.
When I tried again, Miller said about his boss that “his legacy will really be like a peacemaker.”
I came back a third time and quoted conservative radio presenter Mark Levin: “This is sick. Ukraine did not start this war. What did they have to do? Rolls and playing? They just try to survive.”
And I asked, “Why does President Trump Zolenskyy blame the start of the war?”
Trump seems to follow a “guilty Ukraine” approach when it comes to the invasion of the country by Russia. However, there is an important question: is there a strategy behind it, or does it just sound off? (Kay Nietfeld/Picture Alliance/Curtis means/Daily Mail/Bloomberg)
“Well, Zenskyy is faulted a lot. I think this would go too. But again, you want to look at the past, I want to look at the future, what we do to save lives.”
Jason Miller did his job. A similar scenario took place in the other Sunday shows.
On “Fox News Sunday”, my colleague Shannon Bream asked the Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth if it was fair to say that Russia was not provoked when the Ukraine attacked. He replied that it was “honest to say that it is a very complicated situation.”
Hegseeth emphasizes that Trump wants to end the war, said: “You are good, you are bad; You are a dictator, you are not a dictator; You fell in, you didn’t do that. “It’s not useful. “
Another part of my Sunday interview also sheds light on the use of Taal van Trump.
The president had told reporters: “I think we have the District of ColumbiaMake it absolutely flawlessly beautiful. ”
Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth was asked on Sunday if it was fair to say that Russia was not provoked when the Ukraine attacked and Fox News’ Shannon Bream told that it was a ‘complicated situation’. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The district has enjoyed a home rule for 50 years, although the congress retains power to cancel its laws. The capital is struggling, like most cities, with crime, poverty and other urban ailments.
I asked Point Blank: Is the president ready to end the home rule in DC?
Miller said that Mayor Muriel Bowser largely does a good job and adds: “I think part of the reason why President Trump won is because he said he would clean up our cities to make them safe. Of course he is going to put pressure on the district Or Columbia.
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So the words of Trump had a different meaning in this case, as a warning signal for the district.
Oh, I also wondered why Trump continues to refer to Canada when the 51st is when that will not happen.
“The president has a little pleasure with it. But he also makes some very serious points.”
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My online detactor was wrong. It is important to pay attention to the words of the president, especially to the media, who tend to respond to a part of his language. The challenge is deciphering when he is serious when he sends signals and when he just trolls.
