Now we know what they’re going to be talking about tomorrow morning on Morning Joe … besides Trump’s rampage against journalist the last few days. Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal has just published an opinion piece calling on Donald Trump to grow up. Trump’s Self-Reckoning: The GOP nominee and his supporters face a moment of truth begins by rehashing everything we’ve heard and read about the campaign ad nauseam. Then the WSJ editors lament about the fact that this is a campaign that the GOP could easily win if only a grown up were heading the GOP ticket, and finally ends:
Those who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.
If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.
How can we suffer through two and half more months of this nonsense? And when it’s all said and done, and we look back on it, will we all lament what a complete waste of our time Donald Trump has been just as Fred Hiatt at The Washington Post already does in his editorial, The final insult: Donald Trump is a bore:
His extreme self-regard is one of the qualities that make him unfit to be president, as has been frequently pointed out. But it also explains why, even as we follow his campaign minute by minute, we feel almost demeaned. All this time, all this attention, and what will we have learned?
The true trademark of the insufferable bore is the conviction that he is doing you a great favor by spending time with you. Trump brings this to his campaign every day — his conviction that he is doing the entire country a great favor, that serving as president would represent an enormous sacrifice. “I could be having a very nice life right now,” he says.
And if he loses, that’s okay, too: “I’m going to have a very, very nice long vacation,” he said last week.
Which is fine. Just don’t tell us about it when you get back.
*sigh*