Donald Trump finally, after more than two weeks, came up with a riposte to the viral description of himself and running mate Vance.
A couple of weeks ago, Tim Walz aptly described Trump and Vance as "weird", a simple but effective little sound bite that may turn out to be his greatest contribution to the Harris-Walz Democratic campaign.
You could argue that, in resorting to the next best thing to name-calling, the Democrats have sunk to Trump's level. But the Dems would probably argue that they are merely taking a page out of Trump's playbook, while avoiding the lies, conspiracy theories and the actual name-calling. (They are already straying perilously close to conspiracy theory territory with their continued pursuit of the spurious JD Vance sofa sex meme). At least they are doing it with what seems to be genuine joy, rather than the snide nastiness we usually get from Trump (and now Vance).
After the jibe, though, Trump went uncharacteristically quiet. Dis-quiet-ed, you might say. At a rally in Montana last night, though, he finally came up with the ultimate come-back: "No, we're not weird ... I think we're the opposite of weird. They're weird." Er, okay. Is that it?
True to form, he then went off on a fairy tale about how the American press had conspired with the Democrats to spread this calumnious slander. But he had finally made his great retort. Good job, Donny.
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