Early readers of this morning's post (MORE FROM DONALD J TRUMP) will have noticed the error near the bottom, when I used "nonsecular" instead of "secular."
I made the correction a few minutes later, but a mistake like this leaves a bad taste in my noggin. I hate it when I manage to say exactly the opposite of what I mean to say.
I'm reminded of the TV show Sports Night: one of the anchors suffered the same mental glitch when speaking to (I think) Hillary Clinton. He realized it later, when it was too late and there was nothing he could do about it.
I've found that trying not to make mistakes is not a foolproof method of avoiding them. And still I try.
Trump, on the other hand, makes a lot of mistakes, but can find no fault in them. Mexico sends their rapists, the debate moderator was on the rag, a reporter with a question was "ranting and raving like a madman," Jersey City was packed with celebrating Muslims as the Twin Towers came down, a reporter's neurological disorder is gleefully mimicked (though Trump can't remember meeting the guy). [They definitely had.]
Turns out, if you have a problem with any of Trump's outrageous statements it must be because you heard it wrong. The man stands behind them a hundred percent. And he's not a racist. (He's the least racist fellow anybody every met, or so he thinks.)
I guess all we can hope is that Trump will split from the Republican party, thus handing the election to the Demos. Don't we need at least a little humility in the White House?
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