Donald Trump was indicted, convicted and shot at this year — and all of those events weren't as important to him as Vice President Kamala Harris outshining him, remarked CNN political commentator Van Jones, which he said highlights the former president's "pure narcissism."
Jones' comment came in response to a question on CNN's "The Source" in which he was asked whether Democrats ought to push back against Trump's repeating of false claims that he won the 2020 election.
"Here's something to observe about the psychology of this guy," said Jones. "The past three weeks have apparently been the worst three weeks of his campaign. 'The worst three weeks, the worst three weeks.' This year he was convicted — he was a convicted crook — he was indicted, to your point, shot at and actually hit by a bullet. All of those things are not as important as the past few weeks where somebody is getting more attention than him."
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Trump has grown more off-message and become more upset than any of those events solely because he's not the focus of attention, argued Jones.
"That gives you a sense — you're dealing with a level of just pure narcissism that I think people need to take serious account of," he said.
Jones noted with a laugh that Trump said Democrats cheated even when he won in 2016.
"Democrats can't get distracted with that. We know what he's going to do. We know how he's going to act," he said.
What they ought to do: double down on optimism — and change. Highlight that Harris is not President Joe Biden, in that she's younger and from the opposite side of the country.
"As long as [Trump] keeps throwing fits, he's going to keep falling," said Jones.
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