Maybe someone wrote about this earlier this evening, maybe they didn’t. But I ran across this preview of George Stephanopoulos' This Week interview with Donald Trump, and it’s 1:30 am on a Friday night and people with real lives are out having fun right now, and I thought, OK, you big baby, time to write your first diary.
It was a dark and stormy night. Trump told Stephanopoulos:
“I've had a beautiful, I've had a flawless campaign,” he said. “You'll be writing books about this campaign.”
There is no doubt about that. The only question is where to look for those books, in the Political Science or Child Psychology section?
The GOP Presidential nominee doesn’t care for the way he was portrayed by Hillary Clinton in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. She questioned his temperament.
“I think I have a great temperament, I have a temperament where I know how to win,” Trump said. “She doesn't know how to win, she's not a winner. She doesn't know how to win. And this country, if they choose her, this country will not be in good shape.”
A great thing about Trump is that he always sounds like Trump. If the words “Trump said” did not appear in the quote above, we’d all know who’d said it anyway. Every quote has repeated words, repeated sentences.
It’s been said Trump has no empathy, but that’s not true. He claims to have felt Bernie Sanders’ supporters’ pain Thursday night.
“If you look at what's going on in terms of unity, the Bernie people are angry. They're angry. He was angry,” Trump said.
I’m sorry, could you repeat that? They were what?
The full interview airs Sunday on ABC.
So that’s my first diary, and I’m sticking with it.