Conservative declares Trump’s two superpowers dead — and he killed them

Former George Bush speechwriter Tim Miller said President Donald Trump has spent his last two terms basking in two very powerful superpowers that have saved him from his every mistake. But Miller told “Jim Acosta Sow” host Jim Acosta Friday that Trump has singlehandedly deep-sixed his own magic within the span of a month.

“Trump's superpower through two terms has always been that if something's going bad he can just declare victory, say everything is fine and start doing something else. And his cult members, the MAGA base, will be with him. The people who don't pay attention that closely won't really notice what happened.”

It doesn’t matter when Trump announces plans to invade a NATO ally and claim the island of Greenland. He just moves on to the next thing and MAGA forgives and forgets — or even normalizes it.

“And so, he has been able to do that in a way that other politicians struggle with because they'd worry about their credibility,” said Miller. “Trump can just be like, ‘we won. Yay. We're going to start doing something else.’ Well, now he's finally done the thing here with this war in Iran where that superpower doesn't work. …This is an Achilles heel to that. He could say, ‘we've won, I'm leaving’ … and it could not work.”

Other international factors are beyond Trump’s power now, said Miller. Trump can claim to end the war, but there’s no guarantee Iran won’t agree unless the U.S. complies with reparations for all the damage Trump singlehandedly did when he started the war. Israel may opt to continue to bomb Iran, regardless of Trump’s wishes.

But Trump has also managed to ruin his second valuable superpower, said Miller: the ability to blame others for his messes.

“He's good at shedding the blame off to somebody else,” said Miller. “With COVID, it was an easy target. It's like, ‘this is the China virus. This is the China. You know, China did this to us. You know, it came out of Wuhan. And, you know, it's the Wu flu,’ whatever. Immediately he was doing that.”

However, that’s not an option this time, said Miller: Trump launched the first missiles that started the war.

“This is not [Covid],” said Miller. “People are going to wake up Fourth of July. They're planning their summer road trip or summer vacation or whatever. And they're looking at their budget and it's like flights are more expensive. Gas is more expensive before driving. The barbecue is more expensive.”

“Back in 2021, they could have thought to themselves, ‘well, this was this pandemic’ and this sucks, but just we're all in this together,” Miller added. “In this case, they're going to look at it and say, ‘why did we do this? Why did he do this to me? I'm suffering these real consequences. I can't go on my summer vacation or I have to cut it short or I have to pinch pennies.”

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