Day 235: Stop Trying to Predict Trump “Turning Points”

There hasn’t been one in two years, there’s unlikely to be one now.

Since Donald Trump announced he was officially running for president, he has largely been a bag of hot air. Pundits and elected officials have been predicting a pivot every few weeks or months, only to be made fools of in short order.

It’s happening again.

In May, the New Yorker questioned whether Trump’s scandals related to spilling top secrets to Russian officials and the firing of James Comey were turning points.

In mid-August, the Boston Globe wrote: “A turning point for the far right as Trump is slow to condemn” the racism and Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

CNBC was even broader, claiming: “This is a turning point. It’s over between Trump and the GOP”.

The conservative Washington Times promised that Hurricane Harvey would be the turning point for the beleaguered commander-in-chief.

Now, the right-leaning New York Post is alleging that Trump siding with Democrats on a few issues is yet another turning point.

Keep these numbers in mind: 316 to 90 and 80 to 17. They were the lopsided votes in the House and Senate in support of the deal President Trump made with Democratic leaders on storm aid, the debt limit and government funding.

Remarkably, all the no voters were Republicans.

The numbers shout that we are witnessing a potential turning point in the Trump presidency, one that could further shake up Washington and rattle the calcified political parties.

Enough.

No one the administration, especially Trump, has any idea of a plan. We have literally years of proof that pivots haven’t happened.

Please — PLEASE — stop telling Americans that the man may be pivoting. When it happens, tells everyone it happened. But as history as shown, predicting a Trump correction has been an effort in being embarrassingly wrong.

235 days in, 1227 to go

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