Friday, June 20, 2025

Prey vs. Predator

 A Donald Trump quote gives insight into his frame of mind as both 45 and now as 47.

Asked by a reporter what gave him the idea for the giant flag, he replied: “I’ve had it for a long time. The first time I had it, you guys [the media] were after me and I said, ‘I had to focus.'”

“I was the hunted,” Trump said of his first term, “and now I’m the hunter. It’s a big difference.”

Hat tip to Power Line’s Scott Johnson for sharing the quote. I predict presidential historians will write of Trump that losing his first reelection bid paradoxically made his second term, when he won it, much more consequential.