Trump’s Next Trick: Painting Joe Biden As a Hostage of the Radical Left
The president is trying to sully Biden by association with BIPOC
As soon as April Ryan tweeted that Stephen Miller was said to be writing a race speech for Donald Trump — the race speech for Donald Trump to deliver in the middle of the revolution — I knew I had to cover it. I am an immigrant, I was undocumented all my life, and now my green card is expired. My family is undocumented. Miller is widely credited as the architect of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. He is a committed white nationalist, but so far his fixation, his hobby, his raison d’être, has been Latinx immigrants. I wanted to see what his range was. Oh, and he’s expecting a baby. Would he have gone soft?
As usual, though, Trump’s speech didn’t seem… written. The Boeing bragging, the ramp stuff, the gratuitous mentions of Hillary Clinton — all Criterion Collection Trump. But I saw some Miller watermarks that were pretty smart, in the way cult leaders know how to earworm their way into your brain if you are exhausted, protein-deprived, overworked, disconnected from independent information sources, and brainwashed. The rally was a cult gathering, and Trump’s followers were hungry.
There was no race speech in that there was no speech, but there was race in this speech in…
