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    When Trump is Presidential, His Critics are Left Out in the Rain - Michael Brown

    It was an altogether fitting, albeit pathetic, picture. Shortly before Donald Trump delivered the greatest speech of his life, a speech some pundits called historic in its own right, Rosie O’Donnell “addressed a rain-soaked crowd outside the White House … during the ‘Resistance Address,’ an event countering President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress later that evening. She criticized Trump on his foreign policy, stance towards race, and women’s rights, while urging the 100 or so gathered to “resist Trump (and the weather) through the night” (my emphasis).

    And so, as Trump spoke to tens of millions of Americans (and probably millions of others watching around the world), O’Donnell spoke to roughly 100 protesters, doubtless chilled to the bone in the rain.

    And as Trump called for unity and reached out to African Americans and Jews and Muslims and immigrants — and Democrats — O’Donnell exclaimed, “This is not Russia. To Donald Trump and his pathetic band of white, privileged criminal businessmen, I would like to say to him, ‘nyet, sir.’”

    In reality, the “nyet” is to her, not to him, and her words and actions only underscore that fact.

    This was a night when CNN’s Van Jones had the sense to praise Trump for his speech, especially the moment he honored the widow of the slain Navy Seal, saying, “He became President of the United States in that moment, period,” adding, “That was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics.”

    It was a night when Wolf Blitzer said that Trump delivered “an important, powerful speech,” when Anderson Cooper said that, “This was probably, without a doubt, one of his best speeches that I’ve ever heard,” and when even NPR’s Scott Detrow could say, “This is far and away Trump’s most presidential moment to-date, & the most broadly-framed argument for his agenda. All relative, but notable.”

    And remember: This is the voice of the left (and many more quotes could be cited), the voice of the Trump critics, of those characterized by the president as enemies of the people. Yet they were largely in agreement in recognizing the importance of the moment.

    But on the Democratic side of the aisle, a little-known, former governor was tasked with responding to Trump, but his presentation was so underwhelming that even Rachel Maddow described it as “stunty and small”...

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