The "new and different" thing Trump offered was that he stood up to the mainstream press. They stuck the mic in his face and asked him the standard "When did you stop beating your wife?" questions that normally results in Republicans cowering and conceding ground to the left in an effort to not sound as bad as the question was phrased, but Trump didn't respond that way.
At the bottom of the escalator when he was talking about illegal immigration and the press stuck the mic in his face and asked something to the effect of " Are you saying the people crossing the border from Mexico are coming here to take advantage of our social safety net?" he responded with something like: "Yes, next question."
I think the reason the mainstream media couldn't brow-beat him the way they did other Republican candidates was because he himself is also dishonest A-hole and knew how to better handle them.
Unfortunately, his oversized ego drove him to counter their dishonest bias with increasingly ridiculous dishonesty of his own. It wasn't long before he just started to sound like this guy:
I don't think he'll get elected to president again.
At the bottom of the escalator when he was talking about illegal immigration and the press stuck the mic in his face and asked something to the effect of " Are you saying the people crossing the border from Mexico are coming here to take advantage of our social safety net?" he responded with something like: "Yes, next question."
I think the reason the mainstream media couldn't brow-beat him the way they did other Republican candidates was because he himself is also dishonest A-hole and knew how to better handle them.
Unfortunately, his oversized ego drove him to counter their dishonest bias with increasingly ridiculous dishonesty of his own. It wasn't long before he just started to sound like this guy:
I don't think he'll get elected to president again.
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