Trump has revealed his own weakness, according to political commentator Greg Sargent. In his latest column for the New Republic, the columnist railed against Trump’s firestorm of Truth Social posts and comments against California Governor Gavin Newsom, saying they have “backfired.”
“With President Donald Trump sending more troops into Los Angeles amid protests there, a remarkable image has gone viral on social media,” Sargent said. “It shows members of the National Guard crowded into a sterile-looking office, sleeping on a hard floor, in evident discomfort, all dressed in full military gear.”
Sargent, who hosts The Daily Blast podcast, believes not only shows the “awful planning” Trump had by dispatching of troops but also, “It also captures the deeper absurdity of this entire operation: These members of the military were supposedly needed to quell an urgent emergency, but as it has turned out, they were simply not needed for this purpose at all.”
“Guess who knows this disconnect is a problem?” Sargent rhetorically asked, “Trump does.”
The podcast hosts believes Trump is trying to make himself seem “fearsome and strong.”
Aside from sending troops into Los Angeles being “an abuse of power,” Sargent thinks Trump is also “displaying a certain form of political weakness.”
“The buffoonery of Trump’s claims about the need for the Guard and his wildly uncontrollable rage at Newsom—combined with new revelations about the genesis of this crisis—point to a real vulnerability that sits at the core of this whole spectacle,” Sargent said.
The podcast host added, “Trump is raging at Newsom—and demanding our applause for putting down this ‘rebellion’—not because he’s fearsome and strong, but because his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.”
He went on to say, “voters suspect the military is not needed here, and it’s all making him appear simultaneously tyrannical and incompetent. Democrats: Proceed accordingly.”