Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump
It\u2019s the last night of the Republican National Convention and former GOP operative Tim Miller joins Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast to break down what Rick calls \u201cfour hours of sweaty Castro-esque speechmaking.\u201d The most surreal speechmaker of all may have been Ivanka Trump. \u201cThere were a lot of lies,\u201d says Miller. \u201cBut I thought the lie that really stood out to me was when she talked about how much he loves his grandchildren.\u201dMolly was impressed, sort of. \u201cI did think tonight, Ivanka is an idiot, and she is absolutely unequivocally the smartest of all of the kids.\u201d Aside from Trump, himself, the gang agrees that Rudy Giuliani gave the most despicable speech of the night. Former Giuliani staffer, Rick, says the former Mayor of New York was kickstarting a Republican race war that will run until the election. \u201cThere's never been a more perfect exemplar of \u2018everything Trump touches dies,\u2019 because that speech tonight; it was, at one point, everything but the n-word\u2026 They're coming for you, they're coming for you to your suburbs. These black lives matter\u2026\u201d And when it came to Trump himself, Molly says he was totally off-form: \u201cHe finds reading very boring. So, I mean, every speech where he's not saying crazy shit is him being totally bored by whatever they're making him read."Rick agrees \u201cit was very low energy speech,\u201d but predicts the calm\u2014maybe even electable\u2014Trump will not last long. \u201cWe all know something about Donald Trump. After he\u2019s been disciplined and held down by his staff for a couple of days, he has an equal and opposite reaction and goes fucking nuts.\u201d
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