'Drawing more attention': Trump's 'scathing' age defense is reportedly backfiring on him
Donald Trump's "scathing" Truth Social rant in defense of his age and physical capabilities just made his problems worse, according to an analyst.
Journalist and political analyst Hayes Brown appeared on MSNOW over the weekend, where he flagged a "chaotic and unprecedented" power play Democrats might be able to try. After that, he was asked about a recent New York Times piece about Trump and his aging.Of Trump's defenses to the aging report, the host asked, "But you say all this does is prove the point. How so?"
He replied, "I think that if you are pushing 80 and unwilling to admit, yes, I am aging. Yes, I am slowing down. Yes, some things may take me longer, but I'm doing it the best I can, that I think, and just pretending it's not happening, that is a hit to your credibility."
He continued:
"Like the I know that the mythos that he's putting out there, this this aura of invincibility that he is eternal, that he is so powerful, so strong, the utmost of masculinity. I know that that is what he puts out there to his base. That's the image he wants to project, and that aging undercuts that. So he wants to try to ignore it. But the problem is, aging is a reality. Like I feel like in this country especially, we fetishize youth and aging is a taboo. And so in the emphasis of the former and vitality and strength, we want to not even look at the latter."
Brown went on to tie it all together, saying Trump is the victim and the cause of his own version of a "Streisand effect."
"So in trying to deny the fact that he is getting older, Trump is I feel like drawing more attention to those moments where it's obvious, like it's almost a Streisand effect, you know what I'm saying?" he said Saturday. "Like where even trying to deny a story and put something down, you're drawing more attention to it."