Trump didn’t take the debate—or Harris—seriously

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:

This is the day Donald Trump truly became president. He is a changed man. He’s had an “existential” shift. He’s now more spiritual. He’s going to tear up his original convention speech to “meet the moment.” His economic speech was totally coherent. 

For some unfathomable reason, the political press loves to take Trump’s bullshit at face value, despite being proven time and time again that he is only himself—a bitter, stupid, angry, and bigoted demagogue who will never change. And the same was true when it came to the press’ stories about Trump’s supposedly serious approach to debate prep.