Trump reveals whose idea it was to give that disastrous speech #shorts

Remember that disastrous national speech that Donald Trump gave the other night, the one where I said that whatever he was trying to do, he failed unless the goal was to convince the country that he's clueless, in which case he gets an a plus plus plus. At the time, I asked a really simple question. And sometimes with Trump, simple questions actually go there. The question may be simple, but finding the answer may be complicated.

I said, who thought this was a good idea? Who signed off on this idea? And now we may finally have the answer. According to reporting from the Daily Beast, Donald Trump admitted off camera that this speech was not his idea. He told reporters that it was the idea of Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, who made him do it.

Now understand the context here. This entire fiasco starts to make sense when you realize right before the speech, Vanity Fair drops this brutal profile of Susie Wiles. Just brutal, brutal, brutal. She says Trump's got an alcoholic's personality. She talked about judging people about Trump, judging people by their genes and contradicted Trump's

favorite Epstein conspiracy talking points and portrayed J.D. Vance as a conspiracy theorist, said J.D. Vance is an avowed ketamine user, odd duck who sleeps in a bag at work and all of this stuff. Magga World was furious, although officially everybody in the administration defended Susie Wiles. OK, all of a sudden Trump is doing a national address.

Cable News goes into breaking news mode. Networks cut away from I don't even know what's on the air these days. Probably not survivor, right? Or is it survivor? Who the hell knows? And people start speculating.

Is Trump announcing a war? Is it Venezuela? Is it some massive announcement? And instead we get the 18, 19, 20 minutes of Trump talking at double speed, popping his peas outrageously into the microphone. He seems hopped up. He's lying about gas prices. He's lying about inflation. He's lying about math. He sounds like a guy whose brain is really suffering. Doctors were alarmed. We'll get to that later.

Trump's allies were confused. What was the point of this speech? And after the cameras stop rolling, Trump asks his staff, how did I do? They say, oh, you did great. And then Trump says the quiet part out loud, which is Susie told me to give an address to the nation. So what it seems like is going on here is that Susie Wiles knew

she was stepping on a political landmine with the Vanity Fair piece. And the idea was, let's distract. Let's put Trump up there. Let's generate attention about something different. Trump goes up there. I guess it's a form of damage control, even if Trump doesn't realize it. And it backfires. it. And it backfires. The David Pakman Show David Pakman dot com.