A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush penned a column for The Atlantic that detailed a surprising flop from the campaign of former President Donald Trump.
Writing Wednesday, David Frum said, "Rarely, if ever, has a presidential campaign collapsed from seeming assurance into utter chaos as Trump-Vance has."
"The campaign seems to have stumbled into a strange unintended message: 'Let’s go to war with Taylor Swift to stop Haitians from eating dogs,'" he said.
After the first debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, pop star Taylor Swift endorsed Harris and other celebrities followed. Trump dismissed Swift's endorsement at first but collapsed into rage-posting on Truth Social, writing, "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"
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Meanwhile, his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), elevated the racism of an Ohio resident into a national conspiracy where not only he but Trump claimed Haitian migrants were eating people's pets. The Wall Street Journal revealed that the Springfield resident who reported the story to Vance found their "lost" cat in the basement.
Further, Vance knew it wasn't real, calling the city to check it out before spreading the bogus conspiracy anyway.
"Vance," Frum wrote, "wants to raise tariffs on toasters and worries that Roe v. Wade overturned, George Soros may every day fill a 747 airliner with abortion-seeking pregnant Black women," he continued.
Frum closed by saying, "The stink of impending defeat fills the air—and so much of the defeat would be self-inflicted."
